KRI’s role: Professional leadership of the project
Partners: Regional Development Support Agency Košice (lead partner), Technical University of Košice, Agency for Regional Development and Cross-Border Cooperation TRANSCARPATHIA, Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, Sør-Varanger Municipality, Košice Self-Governing Region, Zakarpattia Regional State Administration – associate partners
Duration: October 2015 – April 2017
Funding: Norwegian grants, State budget of the Slovak Republic and own co-financing
During the project, the methodology of adaptive planning was developed and pilot applied. This approach, which is unique in Slovakia and in Ukraine, will enable planners, or to those who make decisions at the local or regional level, to incorporate the local impacts of global risks into everyday thinking and actions, thus mitigating their consequences. At the same time, cross-border cooperation between Slovak and Ukrainian planners in the SK/UA border area was initiated and institutionalized in the project. Apart from the Framework Methodology of Adaptive Planning, project outcomes also included a guidebook called “Adaptation to Climate Change – Tasks, Approaches and Tools of Self-governments”, Joint Climate Change Adaptation Strategy for the pilot area (Michalovce district, Sobrance district, Uzhgorod Rayon)
