 Hello, my name is Paola, I am an international student and today I am standing in front of the Water Experiment Centre 20. The reason why I am here is because I want to discuss with you two very important projects that Saxion is focusing on. They are about sustainability and they are part of the very unique semester, smart solution semester that you can only find at Saxion University. In today's video we will talk about one of the key concepts of Saxion, sustainability. Here with me I have Mr. Harry Fützler, Mr. Fützler, could you please introduce yourself? Okay, indeed, my name is Harry Fützler, I am a professor of international water technology at Saxion University of applied science and we are in our experimental centre to show you one of our smart solution projects called Green Source. Thank you so much. So sustainability is a big part of Saxion. What does it mean to you? Of course for sustainability you have many explanations, but for me to keep it in short it is future proof. Future proof? Yes, that means that if a student has a project or a question from our industry, a demand-driven, then they don't only have to look to the technical part of the solution but especially also to the non-technical part. They have to look what are the stakeholders, they have to look to the social, ecological, economic aspects so in fact the complete picture of the concept we are developing. That's great, thank you. And could you also please give us an introduction to your sustainable project? Okay, the project is called Green Source because what you want to do is you want to collect water under a green source, an artificial pitch and then by several treating steps we are making out of surface water, rain water or groundwater, we are making drinking water. We are using it in a sustainable way, that we are not using bottled water, in fact we are using reusable, refittable bottles so every time the users of the system can refill their bottles. And besides let's say the technical solution, we also are looking for the non-technical because we are also training the people who can operate and maintain the system. So it's being installed many times next to primary and secondary schools so they have in fact no experience with technology and what we want to do and that's also the task of our students, that they know about our stakeholders and that they are developing the system in such a way that also people without the right background are able to operate the system properly to keep safe water. Thank you, thank you so much. That's actually very interesting and applicable in real life and how do you see this project in the future? How does it develop? At this moment it's still in pilot plant states, at this moment we are constructing 15 of those systems in South Africa placed next to primary and secondary schools and after this phase we want to learn from it, we want to develop the system, we want to develop the maintenance and operation program, we want to develop the capacity building program and if everything has been tested and proved, we want to spread it throughout about complete Africa, Southeast Asia, America and also we want to bring it back in fact to Europe because the last summits you have noticed, we have a lot of lack of rain in Western Europe so also we think this is a very good system capable to have to solve the problem of drinking water shortage in Europe. Yeah, thank you so much. I remember you mentioned in the beginning that the green source is part of the smart solution semester, right? The smart solution semester is a semester of suction where students have the opportunity to work together towards a challenge and they can of course apply it in real life and these challenges are given by companies or by suction. Can you elaborate on that please? Now in this case we are collaborating with several companies outside the region where suction is for instance the company Jotem or for instance the company Tenkate, they all are producing components of it but they do not produce the complete concept. What we are doing together with them, we put all the components together and make a complete concept of it. In this case we are making out of service water or rain water in several steps drinking water. So this is let's say also the added value of suction that we are not specialists at one individual technology, we are training our students and that's also part of the smart solution semester because we are using students from different programs with different backgrounds, multidisciplinary and all those knowledge and skills we are putting in this concept to solve one of the biggest issues safe and reliable drinking water for the world. And how does it feel to you to work together with students? In fact great, I always tell their students, in fact I am a student also. Maybe I have a little bit more knowledge and skills but I am also part of daily life, like you are students, you are also daily life, you have different backgrounds, different countries and although I have traveled a lot, I am of a different age, I have a different perception of what is applicable. So that is what we learn every day as professors and as researchers from our students. By adding let's say the most recent skills and experience what we not can get out of the books because you only can get it out of real life and that's think part of our smart solution semester, it's living technology, we should be ready for the next step, being ready for a smart world. So thank you so much for your answers Mr. Fütler. I have just one last question and it's about the smart solution semester. Why is this semester unique? Now I think it's unique because it's an addition to the traditional internship minor and final thesis. That's standard at the University of Applied Science in Holland but we have added a fourth semester to it and so called multidisciplinary semester where we are doing demand driven research. So we get a problem or challenge from one or more companies from outside and we together with our knowledge and our students we are developing a solution for it. I think that is rather unique because it's not multidisciplinary, we're using students from different backgrounds also international students and by doing this we not can only involve the knowledge and skills but we can also involve what you call so the attitude of it. They have different backgrounds, they have different ideas and by this I think we are able to offer a good solution to the companies but also to train our young professionals by means of a realistic topic. Yeah that's true, it is indeed a unique semester. I would like to thank you so much for your time and for the insightful answers and I hope that it is really helpful for you as well in choosing your career path. Thank you so much for watching and yeah I hope I will see you at Saksion.