The CCWater project addresses 'knowledge building' to address water scarcity and water management in 3 partner countries in Asia. It will strengthen the local capacities to cope with Climate Change adaptation through 3 universities from Sri Lanka, 3 from China, and 2 from Mongolia. 3 program countries, Norway, Germany and Poland, with 3 universities with broad and diverse experience in climate-resilient water management will build a knowledge-sharing partnership with the 8 universities in 3 partner countries. The universities, as the key stakeholders preparing tomorrow's leaders, engineers, and scientists, have a key role to play when educating the graduates in the water sector. The participating units of the universities have teaching responsibilities related to water resources, water supply and wastewater management, which are the focus of the CCWater project. The CC Water project aims to strengthen the water-related higher education in 3 partner countries to increase the resilience against climate change impacts. This is achieved by developing HEI’s competences and skills with modern technology and teaching resources. The international collaboration, which is a unified strategic priority of all participating HEIs, will be strengthened together with improved gender and ethnic diversity and inclusion. The main objectives is designed to achieve with five focus areas with five concrete results: (1) enhancing climate resilience and sustainability of water resources and infrastructures in the Partner Countries (2) modernising water-related higher education with climate change issues and internationalise HEIs from the Partner Countries (3) improving the level of competences and skills in HEIs from the Partner Countries (4) strengthening relations of HEIs in the Partner Countries with the wider economic and social environment, and enhance their innovation capacity and (5) improving diversity and inclusion of higher education in the Partner Countries.

The total primary energy supply in Sri Lanka has increased substantially and the electricity demand growth is also recorded as 6% per annum. These growths during the last decade has created a considerable local impact in terms of energy supply security, air pollution, environmental pollution, water scarcity, damage to national heritage and having a direct impact on human life in particular. As a result of three decade-long internal conflict, the lack of development in infrastructure facilities within the Northern Province and the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka have created enormous gap compare to the Southern part of the country. This has directly affected to skill labour availability in the conflict affected areas and created a living standard deference. Aligning Sri Lanka with Goal 7 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the UN, it is expected to reduce country’s dependence on fossil fuels to below 50% of the primary energy supply by 2030. The skill shortage is act as a barrier for archiving expected sustainable goals. As Sri Lanka have enormous potential to generate the required energy supply form renewable energy resources, it is highly critical to identify and address the existing skill level gaps with regards to renewable energy generation. As the outcome of this project five training centres will be developed across the country ( Northern, Eastern, Southern, Western and Central Provinces of Sri Lanka) and eLearning materials are expected to developed for provide training to three main categorise groups, which has listed in its Report on “Skill and Occupational Needs of Renewable Energy 2011” various kinds of skill requirements for different renewable energy sector. It is expected that THREE -LANKA project will contribute for developing skills levels in all the categorise groups in Sri Lanka starting from students, graduate engineers to project managers in the field of Renewable technologies.