Introduction

The Water Harmony project intends establishing a scientific and pedagogic consortium including 8 partner universities from Ukraine, Byelorussia, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Norway to harmonize water related higher education to increase the relevance and quality. 

It fits well to an existing Ukrainian initiative on national level commission intending to harmonize research and teaching strategies on chemical technology among universities in Ukraine while Byelorussia, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan are keen to learn the synergy and benefits. UMB gets an insight to the teaching strategies in Eurasian countries while contributing with Norwegian and European good practices. All 8 partners have common features that integrate their ambitions, competence and national level mandates, which are to prepare master-level specialists on water and wastewater treatment and water resources management for their respective countries. Three modules covering parts of these will be developed, together with mechanism and tools enabling sustainability of the further development process by providing post-graduate diploma courses. Teaching materials including e-learning modules, e-resources, presentations and text book in six languages will be developed. 66 Eurasian students over 3 years and 2 PhD students will be trained using new concepts in a Norway.