Veolia hosts students from UAE, KSA, Oman, and Qatar at 2022 Summer School

Veolia hosts students from UAE, KSA, Oman, and Qatar at 2022 Summer School

Dubai, United Arab Emirates: Veolia, the global benchmark for ecological transformation offering game-changing solutions for water, waste and energy management, hosted a diverse cohort including 10 students from the Near and Middle East (N&ME) for a week of immersion at the heart of the global Veolia Summer School.

The students, who come from the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon, shared the coveted global programme with 58 other students from 25 countries. During the digital one-week summer programme, the students took on the task of ecological transformation by solving environmental challenges with the support of Veolia experts.

The students from N&ME comprised the largest and most diverse group in this year’s global programme, accounting for 15% of the total number of global students, 22% of the countries and 21% of the nationalities represented in the programme, and 18% of the total number of universities that participated in the annual project.

Eight of the 10 students from N&ME this year were new to Veolia, while 7 of them were from engineering disciplines – making for a memorable week of creativity, knowledge sharing and commitment to better understand the challenges of ecological transformation, explore the solutions of tomorrow, and create