Brief description of the course "Green Skills for boosting transition on Water managemenrt" held in Valencia (Spain) in November, 2014. It is a course of the series Innovator Catalyst of the Climate KIC.

1. Valencia, 22nd -29 th Novembre, 2015

2. Innovator catalyst series, a
Climate-KIC professional
education programme…

3. Project/topic
transition
Business models skills
funding
flexibility
Learning process
network
Problem owners
Experts

4. Water management
transition
business models
skills

5. A living lab in which gain and put in place green skills to drive
socio-technical changes in systems by designing new business
solutions through participants´ cases on water management issues
WaterTransitionSkills Business

6. THE COURSE

7. 36 experienced environment
professionals from 15 countries
gathered together for 8 days

8. The foregoing week to the in-site week, an e-learning
platform was foreseen to allow participants to share cases
and learn from the expert´s papers and materials.

9. A Website, a facebook page and a twitter account were
launched… just click on the pictures, beneath!

10. ONE DAY INTO THE WATER…

11. Breakfast seminar
Group assignments
Lunch controversy Reflection &
evaluation
Group assignments

12. 1. BREAKFAST SEMINAR: International
experts giving a short lecture based on real
cases and focused on methods and skills.
Later on discussion with participants.

13. Anna J. Wieczorek
Socio-Technical transition
Jan Jonker
Corporate Sustainability
Fernando J. Díaz López
Eco-innovation
Caroline Van Leenders
Process management
Todd Gartner
Water management & innovation

14. Two participants took sketchnotes of
the lecture and a colleague gave
feedback to them

15. 2. LUNCH CONTROVERSY: 2 round tables
2 regional experts, 10 participants: playing a role.

16. Regional Experts: José Jiménez, Augusto Montamarta, Antonio Guillem, Guillermo Palau, Sandra Boni, Sonia
Dauksis, Miriam Navarro, Francesc Hernández, Ernesto López.

17. 3. GROUP ASSIGNMENTS: group and
coached activities putting in place tools and skills
on participants´s cases

18. TRANSITION ACTIVITIES

19. NEW BUSINESS MODELS

20. PUBLIC SPEAKING

21. CREATIVE THINKING, WORLD CAFÉ,
SPEED DATING…

22. Reflection, feedback and evaluation

23. FIELD TRIPS…

24. Guided visit to Natural Park “La Albufera”:
water management projects in protected environments
Regional experts: Augusto Montamarta, Jose Segarra, Antonio Guillem

25. Guided visit to Natural Park “El Turia”:
Water and land management to allow
ecosystem regeneration
Andreas Huss
Landscape expert

26. In a nutshell extremely energy demanding
but absolutely enjoyable

27. Cristian Matti
Design and coordination
Javier de Vicente
Coaching and training methods
Rafa Granell
Content and Comm. manager
Cecilia Poyatos
Management and logistics
Mar Violeta
Consultancy and tutoring
THE TEAM

28. Green Skills for boosting
transitions on water management
Valencia (Spain) from 22nd untill 29th November 2014
InnovatorCatalyst
jadevicen@gmail.comJavier de Vicente