Project partners: Alingsås municipality, Lerum municipality, Partille municipality, Gothenburg municipality, Gothenburg region, Chalmers, KFi, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB
Grant: SEK 4 392 383
Project duration: 2026-07-01 – 2028-12-31
Contact person: Joanna Friberg, Gothenburg Region Local Government Association
Description of the project
Climate change creates complex challenges for sustainable water management in urban regions, particularly in river basins where risks of flooding, drought, and landslides are escalating. Without intermunicipal collaboration, there is lack of holistic perspectives and risk of fragmented solutions, upstream-downstream conflicts, and trade-offs with other societal goals. The project develops an innovative coordination model for climate adaptation in the Säveån river basin. The municipalities Alingsås, Lerum, Partille, and Gothenburg and the Gothenburg Region collaborate with academia (Chalmers University of Technology, Kommunforskning i Västsverige) and process facilitators (RISE). Using policy lab methods for policy development, the project establishes a platform for dialogue, knowledge-building, and testing of new approaches. Deliverables are: A coordination model for joint governance of climate adaptation. An established collaboration forum with a mandate to drive issues at the river basin level A methodology handbook for dissemination and replication in other functional geographies. The project contributes to Water Wise Societies’ Mission 3 by strengthening society’s resilience to flooding and drought, while addressing a critical policy gap in intermunicipal collaboration. The project will strengthen GR’s capacity to drive collaboration on complex climate and societal challenges. The results will be institutionalized as a mandate for GR, with application in additional river basins.
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Goals and tasks
- Resilient supply and management of water in society
- Adapt society to flooding and drought
