Partners
Partners in three countries keep the Scheldt Youth Parliament going. So do the young people who keep showing up.
GoodPlanet Belgium
A Belgian non-profit for sustainability education and citizen engagement. It started the Scheldt Youth Parliament with the Agence de l'Eau Artois-Picardie and has coordinated it ever since. It recruits participants, runs the exchanges and keeps the network going from one group to the next.
goodplanet.be
Agence de l'Eau Artois-Picardie
The French public water agency for the Artois-Picardie basin, which includes the upper Scheldt. It started the Scheldt Youth Parliament with GoodPlanet and has stood behind it ever since, also as one of our funders.
Read our story eau-artois-picardie.fr
HZ University of Applied Sciences
Our scientific partner in the Netherlands. HZ supports your research projects, coordinates the project with GoodPlanet and hosted the October 2025 exchange in Zeeland, where the Scheldt meets the sea.
Read our story hz.nl
International Scheldt Commission
The body where the countries and regions along the Scheldt work together on the river, from water quality to water quantity. We have had observer status since 2012 and presented our recommendations to its plenary assembly in Tournai in June 2026.
isc-cie.org
JINT
The Belgian national agency for Erasmus+ Youth. It granted our Erasmus+ funding and monitors it, including a project visit in July 2026.
jint.be
Join for Water
Go with the flow, our free water game for classrooms, families and youth groups, was developed with Join for Water.
joinforwater.ngo
Drinkable Rivers
A European initiative built around one question: could you drink from this river? Our first Scheldt walk, from Denain to Valenciennes in April 2025, was part of its Drinkable Scheldt walk.
drinkablerivers.orgRights for the Scheldt
A civil-society initiative that wants the river to have legal rights of its own. It ran a session at our Zeeland exchange in October 2025.
rechtenvandescheldes.euFunders
From 2024 to 2026, the Scheldt Youth Parliament was funded by Erasmus+, through JINT, and by the Agence de l'Eau Artois-Picardie.
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