Cross-border collaboration

When Stormwater&Sewers' steering group visited Trondheim, it became an opportunity to strengthen cross-border collaboration. Together with Norwegian municipalities and researchers from NTNU, they exchanged experiences and solutions for the sustainable water and wastewater systems of the future.

In early March, the Stormwater&Sewers steering group visited its research partner NTNU in Trondheim as well as the Municipality of Trondheim, with the aim to highlight the importance of collaboration across national and organizational boundaries.

For an entire day, representatives from Stormwater&Sewers member organizations and five Norwegian municipalities—ranging from major cities like Trondheim, Bergen, and Oslo’s suburban municipality of Bærum, to smaller municipalities such as Hitra and Stjørdal—gathered to share experiences, discuss ideas, and draw inspiration from one another’s work. The diverse perspectives provided new insights, and the study visit to a newly built pump station and Trondheim’s town square—home to an underground stormwater reservoir—provided typical examples of practical solutions.

Stormwater&Sewers has a long-standing research collaboration with Trondheim, making a meeting with the water and wastewater engineering researchers at NTNU—the Norwegian University of Science and Technology—was a natural part of the visit. The researchers presented their work in joint projects and exciting ongoing studies.

When research and practice come together in this way, both expertise and networks are strengthened—so that together we can drive development forward toward smarter, circular, and more sustainable water and wastewater systems.