One of the primary strategic goals of GWP is to engage youth in any way possible. The point is to give them a fighting chance for a water secure future. This year, we tried something new.

10 years for Green Future were inspired by the 2019 Youth Voices Policy Choices initiative, sharing the same goal, with a slightly adapted structure. An opportunity was created for young water specialists to meet with high-level decision makers to discuss water- and climate-related pressing matters, and how both parties can cooperate to mitigate them, using the Visegrad Funds initiative. The idea of 10 years for Green Future is to show the value and potential of young water specialists to become the leaders of action and, together with their counterparts, propose and partially develop a project idea that will compete against other nations. The results were presented at COP 26, and later on, the young specialists were invited to Budapest, Hungary to visit the Planet Budapest expo.

The first phase took place on a national level. Chosen participants worked together with GWP CEE and respective CWPs on the content of the dialogue, to ensure maximum precision within each nation to address the correct topics.