The project from the Erasmus + Platform of Vocational Excellence WATER Scale-up (PoVE WATER Scale-up) is a transnational project drawing on the existing and emerging needs for professional competences, skills in the water sector and translating them into excellent professional quality. The project follows on from the PoVE Water Pilot Project. This ensures the upward convergence of vocational education and training with the knowledge triangles (EU) and strong involvement in regional economic and social ecosystems. The aim of the project is to create the infrastructure necessary for the integration of professional excellence into the water management sector in Europe, and thus lay the foundations for the development of professional curricula and subsequently the development of student competencies. The project follows on from the PoVE Water Pilot Project.

Partners from the Netherlands, Latvia, Malta, Czech Republic, Germany, Estonia, Belgium and South Africa are involved in the project.
The CREA Hydro & Energy cluster together with Mendel University in Brno are one of the project partners for the Czech Republic.

The main goals of the project include:

• providing vocational training at the forefront of research and technological development in the water sector
• Ensuring working access, knowledge and skills for current and future professionals in the water sector
• identification of current and emerging labor market needs and increased ability to respond to these needs from the outset
• promoting synergies, cooperation and mutual enrichment

The main outputs of the project are:

• Vocational Excellence Scanning tools, used to identify existing systems of professional quality of participating organizations and to prepare the process of knowledge sharing
• 5 centers of excellence for water, acting as regional “skills ecosystems”
• a platform for professional excellence in water, bringing a European dimension to water management
• strategies for growing and improving the PoVE WATER platform and creating a critical mass and sustainable basis for further development

Project partners:

1. STICHTING VOOR ALGEMEEN VOORTGEZET ONDERWIJS, BEROEPSONDERWIJS EN  VOLWASSENENEDUCATIE  (FC  –  CIV  Water), Netherlands
2. STICHTING LEARNING HUB FRIESLAND (LHF), Netherlands
3. STICHTING  PLATFORM  BETA  EN  TECHNIEK  (PBT  –  Katapult), Netherlands
4. VITENS NV (Vitens), Netherlands
5. STICHTING  YUVERTA  (YUVERTA), Netherlands
6. STICHTING MAASTRICHT SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT (MSM), Netherlands
7. HANSE-PARLAMENT  EV  (HANSE  PARLAMENT), Germany
8. MALTA COLLEGE OF ARTS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (MCAST), Malta
9. WATER SERVICES CORPORATION – WSC (WSC), Malta
10. MENDELOVA  UNIVERZITA  V  BRNE  (MENDELU), Czechia
11. CREA HYDRO&ENERGY ZS (CREA H&E), Czechia
12. STREDNI PRUMYSLOVA SKOLA STAVEBNI BRNO (SPŠS BRNO), Czechia
13. LIPKA  SKOLSKE  ZARIZENI  PRO  ENVIRONMENTALNI  VZDELAVANI  BRNO PRISPEVKOVA ORGANIZACE (Lipka), Czechia
14. WOMEN ENGAGE FOR A COMMON FUTURE EV (WECF), Germany
15. RIGAS TEHNISKA UNIVERSITATE (RTU), Latvia
16. RIGAS TEHNISKAS UNIVERSITATES OLAINES TEHNOLOGIJU KOLEDZA (RTU OLAINE), Latvia
17. PROFESIONALAS  IZGLITIBAS  KOMPETENCES  CENTRS  DAUGAVPILS BUVNIECIBAS TEHNIKUMS (DBT), Latvia
18. VIDZEMES TEHNOLOGIJU UN DIZAINA TEHNIKUMS (Vidzemes Tehnologiju un dizaina tehnikums), Latvia
19. LATVIJAS  UDENSAPGADES  UN  KANALIZACIJAS  UZNEMUMU  ASOCIACIJA (LWWWWA), Latvia
20. HARIDUS-JA TEADUS MINISTEERIUM (JKHK VET), Estonia
21. EESTI VEE-ETTEVOTETE LIIT (EVEL), Estonia
22. EUROPEAN  FORUM  OF  TECHNICAL  AND  VOCATIONAL  EDUCATION  AND TRAINING (EFVET), Belgium
23. STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY (SU), South Africa