The 10th YWPDK Annual Conference brought more than 60 young water professionals together from across Denmark for two inspiring days of knowledge sharing, innovation, and networking. Now, we invite you to participate in the 11th YWPDK national conference that takes place in 2026.

The 2026 conference will take place on the 19^th and 20^th of March in the Aarhus area. We have a maximum capacity at the conference, so make sure to register as quickly as possible to secure your spot.

The two-days program is filled with activities that include knowledge sharing (e.g. technical presentations), development of soft skills (with ad-hoc workshops) and technical tours. Of course, there will be plenty of opportunities to meet and network with your fellow young water professionals, especially during the social dinner on Thursday evening. The conference is a great chance to get inspired by other YWPs and by our engaging speakers and guests.

The call for abstracts is now open. We encourage you to submit your water-related work and projects.

The conference is dependent on input from our members, and we would therefore like to invite you to participate by joining in with an abstract for an oral presentation. We do not have strict requirements regarding the content of the abstract, so you can submit anything from an introduction to your expertise area, hands-on engineering projects, pilot projects, student projects, academic research, conceptual frameworks, etc.

The program will contain multiple sessions with technical presentations. The content and theme of each session depends on the abstracts which are submitted. Topics for sessions can be, but are not limited to, drinking water treatment and distribution, waste – and storm water management, resource recovery form water treatment. Any water related work is welcome!

If you wish to submit an abstract, please use YWPDK_11th_Conference_Abstract_Template. The deadline for submitting the abstract is January 23rd 2026 (midnight). The abstract should be submitted as word file (not pdf) and should be sent by email to events@ywp.dk. The authors of accepted abstracts will be notified by 28th of February and we will provide you with guidelines for the oral presentation (duration, format, etc.).

Please be aware that submitting the abstract does not imply an automatic registration to the conference. If your abstract is accepted and if you intend to participate in the conference, you’ll need to make sure to register for the conference.

Note: If you are having issues downloading the template, please copy the hyperlink and open it in a new tab. You can also try and paste the link into an Edge web browser (you might need to approve/declare the link as safe before downloading). 

Registration is now open! 

The conference fee covers the cost of conference participation (including all the conference activities and meals) and the social dinner. The conference fee is 650 DKK for employed and PhD students, while if you are a student or unemployed you can attend the conference at a reduced fee of 300 DKK.

Remember: if you have submitted an abstract, you still need to make sure to register for the conference, as submitting the abstract does NOT imply registration to the conference.

Registration will close on February 21th 2026.

All tickets will be refunded in the event of YWPDK having to cancel the conference.

The planning committee is currently working on putting together an interesting program. Stay tuned for updates about the program and more.

Below you can see the program and a description of workshops from the 2025 conference.

YWPDK and the conference is supported by our network partners