{"id":2970326,"date":"2023-10-26T13:01:08","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T13:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vattenindustrin.se\/?p=2970326"},"modified":"2025-06-26T13:01:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T13:01:32","slug":"vattenindustrin-lanserar-internship-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vattenindustrin.se\/en\/vattenindustrin-lanserar-internship-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Industry Launches Internship Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The water industry is facing a generational shift. At the same time, there is a very large investment need in VA and development is going faster than ever before. Overall, this means that we not only need to replace those who are retiring, we also need to attract more and new types of skills. To attract young people to choose a career in water, the Water Industry is launching an Internship program that will run through the summer of 2024.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The Water Industry Internship Program aims to attract young people to an industry that is filled with exciting opportunities in many areas, from technical challenges to major societal issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013 We believe this is a very exciting way to discover the possibilities of a career in water. Participants will work at various member companies for a few weeks in the summer of 2024 to experience as much as possible about an industry that works with everything from technical challenges to major social issues, says <strong>Matilda Jirblom<\/strong>, investigation engineer in water and sewage at Ramboll in Malm\u00f6 and chairman of the Water Industry&#039;s focus group NextGen, which works on skills supply issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The program features several members of the Water Industry from different types of businesses, such as consultants, contractors and product suppliers within water purification and water treatment, which provides a unique insight into several different parts of the industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to visits to companies for lectures, study visits, case studies and workshops, the participants will work together on a project assignment that during this first year is <em>Climate change &amp; climate adaptation \u2013 challenges for the water and sanitation industry<\/em>. The results will be presented at the Water Industry Forum24 on November 19, 2024 in Stockholm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013 It is of utmost importance to solve the issue of skills supply and ensure learning between generations. We look forward to bringing together experience and new ideas through the Water Industry Internship Program, says <strong>Joachim J\u00e4mttj\u00e4rn<\/strong>, Secretary General of the Water Industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Welcome to a summer you won&#039;t soon forget when you dip your toes into our industry!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Facts<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The Water Industry Internship Program is paid and will run for weeks 24-25 and 32-33 during the summer of 2024. The program is aimed at students who have started their university education with a specialization that is in demand within the Water Industry. In total, 4 students will be offered a place in the Water Industry Internship Program 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can register your interest now at Vattenindustrin.se\/internship. The selection process will take place during the spring-winter of 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vattenindustrin st\u00e5r inf\u00f6r ett generationsskifte. Samtidigt finns ett mycket stort investeringsbehov i VA och utvecklingen g\u00e5r snabbare \u00e4n n\u00e5gonsin tidigare. Sammantaget inneb\u00e4r detta att vi inte bara beh\u00f6ver ers\u00e4tta de som g\u00e5r i pension, vi beh\u00f6ver ocks\u00e5 attrahera fler och nya typer av kompetenser. F\u00f6r att locka unga att v\u00e4lja en karri\u00e4r inom vatten lanserar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2970327,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2970326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kompetensforsorjning"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vattenindustrin.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vattenindustrin.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vattenindustrin.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vattenindustrin.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vattenindustrin.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2970326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vattenindustrin.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2970328,"href":"https:\/\/vattenindustrin.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970326\/revisions\/2970328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vattenindustrin.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2970327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vattenindustrin.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2970326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vattenindustrin.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2970326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vattenindustrin.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2970326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}