"The overall objective of the project is to strengthen research in the field of smart data driven e-services in water resources management, made available to international community and/or specific stakeholders such as companies, citizens, and authorities. The complexity of research related to water resources management is extremely high and requires deep expertise in several ICT-related research domains such as: Big Data and Smart Data; semantic Internet of Things; context-aware and event-based systems; Cloud computing; Web services;, and social Web.
The main goal of the project is to bring the Romanian level of excellence near the value of the other partner countries.
The project concept is based on two pillars: the development of scientific competences and the development of organizational skills, specific for the research activities.
The first pillar, Enhancement of scientific competences, is realized through trainings on selected, advanced scientific topics, staff exchanges, summer schools, organization of scientific events, participation to conferences and workshops. The expected result of these activities is the overall increase of scientific results, in terms of increased peer-reviewed publications, increased impact factors in terms of citations, increased number of submitted project proposals.
The second pillar, Enhancement of organizational capability is realized through trainings and workshops on topics related to research methodology, quality assurance and assessment in the research activity, intellectual property, patent writing. Networking with relevant stakeholders from research, companies, public administration, or interested groups is a priority of this pillar.
A Knowledge and Networking e-Environment - Knowledge Lake - was developed as a support for networking and to ensure the access to scientific resources and general information in the field. The ""Knowledge-lake"" platform has a major impact on the dissemination of the project activities, as well as of the related scientific events and research results in the research field. Knowledge-lake allows different access to information, from public to classified, based on a multi-level user account system. Knowledge-lake facilitates the rapid access to most of the on-line resources related to networking and partnership opportunities from a central point.
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