SMART4ENV Project: Enhancing the Scientific Capacity of TUBITAK MAM in the Field of Smart Environmental Technologies For Climate Change Challenges

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The EU Green Deal Strategy defined tackling climate and environmental-related challenges as ‘’this generation’s” defining task. Digital solutions have the power to deliver substantial environmental gains through increased efficiencies and have increasingly been deployed in improving environmental sustainability. One of the key areas the European Council encourages the Commission to act in are digital solutions for climate mitigation. Digital technologies offer hardware, software, and equipment infrastructure to enable more connected, intelligent, efficient, and responsive systems and services. All this translates into concrete benefits for environmental resources management utilities. SMART4ENV Project aims to improve capacities for stimulating scientific excellence in key applications of Smart Environmental Solutions (SES) for the mitigation and adaptation to climate change of economies while strengthening consortium’s scientific reputation, attractiveness and networking channels. At scientific level, it is expected to enlarge the community of competitive prestigious researchers in SES, stronger and better-connected to a core of international and relevant R&I systems, supported by skilled R&I managers with their international networks. At social level, it is expected an improvement in environmental quality, public health, improved customer experience and communication, a better mitigation and adaptation to climate change because of new SES for intelligent, connected, and responsive environmental services and a sustainable use of water and resilient treatment systems with stable effluents quality. At an economic level, the project will contribute to the development of an innovative SES industry and the profitability of regional companies through new product development, process improvements, innovation support, and job creation.