Rainfall and its societal consequences

The research and collaboration project SPLASH has come to an end. The final project results and achievements were presented at a seminar at Länsförsäkringar's office in Jönköping, where the project had started two years earlier. Around twenty participants from several insurance companies, municipalities, and universities attended the final project seminar.  This two-year project was funded by the Swedish Knowledge Foundation (KK-stiftelse).

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The SPLASH project focused on the modeling of rainfall and the handling of insurance data with the aim of strengthening the Swedish capacity for disaster modeling. The municipality of Jönköping was used as a study area for carrying out an analysis of rainfall and future risks.

The SPLASH project was initiated from the fact that rainfall is becoming more frequent and the societal costs for it are increasing annually, and consequently, there is a great potential to utilize damage data from the insurance industry to better understand how and where the damage from rainfall occurs. However, the use of such data presupposes that it is possible to develop methods for secure management, which became of growing concern since the introduction of the EU Data Protection Regulation GDPR during the course of the project.

The final project seminar was concluded with discussions on how the project could proceed with the lessons and challenges that were identified during the project.