North Sea Skills Integration and New Technologies

Speaking a multi disciplinary language to integrate the worlds of spatial planning and water management. Encouraging the implementation of innovative technical and sustainable solutions which have already proved to be successful.

SKINT – Skills Integration and New Technologies

The Water Framework Directive (WFD) and the Floods Directive (FD) have clear goals to improve water quality and to regulate water quantity. The use of appropriate spatial planning processes can address many urban water management problems.
 
SKINT facilitates the implementation of sustainable urban land and water management by improving the integration of water management and spatial planning processes. Ultimately SKINT will contribute to the achievement of the WFD and FD objectives of improving water quality and reducing flood risk in urban areas.
 
The project is being implemented through a series of work packages. And each partner will undertake at least one regional project that will help to demonstrate implementation of the work package deliverables.
 
There are seven SKINT partner organisations within the participating North Sea Region countries (The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Germany and Norway) bringing together a wide range of specialists from public sector and academic disciplines.
 
The project runs between 01.10.2008 and 31.10.2012 and aims to provide an enduring legacy. read full article>

	Project: Conversations in water management On September 6 Pieter Lems provided a WP1 workshop on communication. The workshop started with a presentation on conversations in water management. read more> more projects>
	News: Skint on International Water Week SKINT was present on Cities in Transition of the International Water Week in Amsterdam. The lively presentations of augmented reality, the serious game ‘WaterTown’ from the University of Abertay Dundee and the ‘flood-table’  (GIS-based visualization of flow path analysis)... read more> more news
	New: Updated video WaterTown Promo Look out for WaterTown later this year. The game development team will have WaterTown ready in September 2011. It will be available in four languages: English, Dutch, German and Norwegian. watch video> more news
	Event 12.03.2012: World Water Forum Marseille Participate in the largest water event in the world: the 6th World Water Forum in Marseille. March 12-17, 2012. Over 2,000 persons and 600 organisations worldwide are now committed to the preparation of the largest international water event. The ultimate goals are to face global water challenges and to implement concrete actions... read more>