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.
Objectives of SKINT
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 in spatial planning processes. SKINT gathers knowledge and experience from successful initiatives and provides (communication) tools for water managers and spatial planners. These will provide an improved skills base to enable effective integrated management of ground and surface water quality and quantity.
SKINT will:
- Facilitate the involvement of water managers and spatial planners in multidisciplinary processes by improving communication;
- Create and apply an international knowledge base of excellent processes and practices of water management integrated with urban land use;
- Integrate water management in urban land use processes to facilitate the implementation of technical water solutions;
- Provide information to professionals to help decision makers to select more sustainable solutions;
- Share the findings from SKINT with water and urban land use professionals in ways specified by those professionals;
- Conduct a specially developed training programme for water and urban land use professionals.