27/10/2026
[ ] Learning from each other to adapt to climate change: six European regions meet in South Holland.
🌊 From rising sea levels to drought The Water Adapt Project Interreg Europe is about learning from each other’s solutions and turning them into policy change.
Our 3rd Interregional Partners Event took place in September, hosted by the Provincie Zuid-Holland, home to one of the world’s most vulnerable deltas. We explored how it plans, governs and monitors its resilience to water-related challenges.
Key learnings:
🔹Infrastructure must evolve with the climate. In the Maeslantkering, Rotterdam's storm surge barrier, sea levels are rising faster than predicted: an infrastructure designed for 100 years but must be replaced or adjusted before 2070.
🔹Working with nature builds resilient coastlines. The Sandmotor, a 21.5 million m³ sand peninsula, lets wind, waves and currents reinforce beaches and dunes naturally. "Nature does it better than we do."
🔹Cooperation is the key success factor: agriculture, forestry, spatial planning and water management must work together, backed by multilevel governance (province, national and local levels) to turn solutions into reality.
WaterAdapt moves from sharing to transferring practices and changing policies. Partners are now starting their Action Plans, with policy implementation running from November 2026 to April 2028 and monitoring until April 2029. Pilot actions could also help test or adapt a practice before implementing the policy instruments.
➡️ Watch the event video (produced by the Province of South Holland)& & read the event report: https://tinyurl.com/3phzjrs9
Thank you to the Province of South Holland and all partners for the warm welcome and rich exchanges!
A project co-funded by the European Union through Interreg Europe.
AVITEM | CPMR - Conference of peripheral maritime regions | Samsø Kommune | Regione Emilia-Romagna | Regione Toscana | Provincie Zuid-Holland | Prešovský samosprávny kraj | Bashkia Tiranë | Région Sud Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur