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 study tour to England and Scotland

SKINT is about transnational knowledge exchange. Part of this is a transnational study tour to another SKINT country for watermanagers from the waterboard HNK and spatial planners from the municipalities. Together we discussed the foreign solutions. Together we learned about the collaboration between the water management and spatial planning in England and Scotland. We learned by master classes and by looking in the field at whether or not successful solutions. Choices abroad differ quite often from the familiar ones. A new scope can provide new insights.

The first two days the Bradford Municipality District Council and the University of Sheffield guided us around. We were told about the water management in England in general and in Bradford in particular. The preservation of the famous cultural Bradford canals and their share in the economic growth of the region was presented. A new sustainable housing project (Newmason) in a river bed next to an industrial heritage site was part of the field trip.

The last two days the University of Abertay Dundee organized a master class and field trips covering the water management in Scotland. Abertay showed a demo of their SKINT WaterTown game and told about the SKINT training programme they developed for municipalities. Purpose of this programme is to create awareness of water. Many differently designed SUDS (Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems) were visited.

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