The activities carried out during the last 27 months (out of 42) of project implementation are summarized below.
At the management level, in RP2 the organization of project meetings and report drafting was operative and timely effective. PSG/SEAB teams held several meetings tackling main project achievements so far and future plans. Communication with the EC was effective and two amendments to GA were approved. The engagement of relevant stakeholders was done during the main project events.
At the operational level, in RP2 the following activities were organized: summer schools, advanced training courses, stakeholders’ meetings, R&I workshops, MSc courses, academic exchanges, experiments and international workshop. Project reports (35) for RP2 were submitted.
At the dissemination level, activities have been achieved at:
• The SMARTWATER website:
brochures, newsletters, news/events page, training materials(öffnet in neuem Fenster)• The SMARTWATER social media: (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn)
• Zenodo link
https://zenodo.org/search?q=smartwater&l=list&p=1&s=10&sort=bestmatch(öffnet in neuem Fenster) Relevant conferences and workshops in RP2:
- “Encontro Ciência”, “Irrigation and Drainage” and “National Fair of Agriculture” (Portugal);
- “Managing Land and Water” (Austria);
- “Urban Water” (Czech Republic);
- “ISAF” (North Macedonia);
- “57th and 58th Conference of Serbian Agronomists”, “1st and 2nd International Symposium on Biotechnology”, “Agenda 4.0” and “ISAE 2023”, “ExcellMater” (Republic of Serbia);
- “World Soil Day” (BiH);
- “59th Croatian and 19th International Symposium on Agriculture” (Croatia);
- “Congress of the International Union of Soil Sciences” (Italy).
Relevant REA conferences attended by SMARTWATER members:
- “Coordinators' Day” (2020),
- „Sustainable Agriculture and natural resources“ (2021);
- „Horizon Europe Info Days” (2021);
- „Avoiding errors in declaring personnel costs“ (2021);
- „Horizon Europe proposal writing“ (2021);
- “Avoiding common errors in declaring other direct costs” (2023).
The overview of SMARTWATER results in the period 2021-2024:
- 3 summer schools, 3 advanced training courses, 3 stakeholders’ meetings and 3 R&I workshops organized;
- 3 MSc studies and 3-year experimental studies organized;
- 13 mutual staff exchanges organized;
- participated in 25+ international conferences;
- international workshop in BiH organized;
- developed 2 smart water management tools and smart national scientific strategy;
- prepared new project proposals and ongoing projects;
- published 12 papers in conference proceedings and 10 OA scientific papers;
- published 2 promotional brochures, 7 E-newsletters and prepared flyers/banners;
- established 1 official website, 3 social media profiles, and Zenodo repository;
- prepared 50 deliverables, reached 48 milestones, implemented 2 amendments;
- 5000+ people reached by SMARTWATER activities.
The exploitation of SMARTWATER results is free of access to all stakeholders and all publications are open access. Relevant stakeholders were always invited to main events, joined the event and gave their feedback. The dissemination of SMARTWATER results (news/posts, training materials, publications, data sheets, reports, evaluations etc.) was done through several communication channels (website, social media, Zenodo, mouth-to-mouth communication) and still takes place.
