SMART WATER
promoting smart agricultural water management in bosnia and herzegovina


What’s smartwater?
SMARTWATER project aims to boost adoption of smart water management techniques in BiH agriculture, in order to address issues like climate change and drought, that prevent national agriculture improvement.
To do so, SMARTWATER will operate on the high educational system of University of Banja Luka (UNIBL), promoting twinning activities with other international bodies and reinforcing networking, research and S&T cooperation capacities.

Funding authority
European Union, European Commission

36 Months
From January 1th to December 31th 2023

6 partners
International research agronomic institutions and one IT company


News & events
Second year of sowing activities at UNSA
Along with the arrival of spring, the time has come for the second year of sowing corn as part of the SMARTWATER project. The sowing location, as in previous year, is on the experimental fields of the Faculty of Agriculture and Food Science in Butmir, near Sarajevo....
SMARTWATER project at CIÊNCIA’22, the biggest Science and Technology meeting in Portugal
In the scope of the ENCONTRO CIÊNCIA – the Portuguese National Meeting with Science and Technology – the SMARTWATER project "Promoting SMART agricultural WATER management in Bosnia and Herzegovina" will be promotedENCONTRO CIÊNCIA is the largest scientific meeting in...
Second year of the experimental activities has started at Aleksandrovac (UNI-BL)!
In scope of the Horizon 2020 project "Promoting SMART agricultural WATER management in Bosnia and Herzegovina" - SMARTWATER activities, a second year of the joint experimental activities have started at the locations of Aleksandrovac.Аt the Experimental Educational...
First Summer School – Trebinje, BiH,
First Summer School Integrated approach for agricultural water management Trebinje, BiH, Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Banja Luka 30.08.2021 - 03.09.2021Mihajlo Marković Univerzitet u Banjoj Luci, Poljoprivredni fakultet, BiHNataša Čereković...
1st Advanced Training Course – Lisbon, Portugal
The first Advanced Training Course Advanced remote sensing technologies and tools for crop water requirements estimates and irrigation scheduling Lisbon, Portugal Instituto Superior de Agronomia | Universidade de Lisboa (ISA|Ulisboa, Salão Nobre/Noble Hall) LEAF –...
Integrated water resources management: evolution of concept, principles and approaches
Mladen Todorović CIHEAM – Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari, Italy Corresponding author: mladen@iamb.it INTEGRATED WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT: EVOLUTION OF CONCEPT, PRINCIPLES AND APPROACHES 3rd International and 15th National Congress - Serbian Society...
Soils for future under global challenges
Mihajlo Markovića, Nataša Čerekovića, Đurađ Hajdera, Nery Zapatab, Teresa A. Paçoc, Erminio Efisio Riezzod, Sabrija Čadroe, Mladen Todorovićf PROMOTING THE APPLICATION OF SMART TECHNOLOGIES IN AGRICULTURAL WATER MANAGEMENT IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA 3rd International...
Promoting application of smart technologies in Bosnia Herzegovina
Михајло МАРКОВИЋ1, Наташа ЧЕРЕКОВИЋ1, Ђурађ ХАЈДЕР1, Нери ЗАПАТА2, Тереса А. ПАЦО3, Ерминио ЕФИСИО РИЕЗЗО4, Сабрија ЧАДРО5, Младен ТОДОРОВИЋ6 ПРОМОВИСАЊЕ ПРИМЈЕНЕ ПАМЕТНИХ ТЕХНОЛОГИЈА (ЗАСНОВАНЕ НА ОБЛАКУ И ДАЉИНСКА СЕНЗИДА) У ПОЉОПРИВРЕДНОМ ВОДОМ У БОСНИ И...
Horizon Europe @UNI-BL
This year's first info-session on the possibilities of participating in the "Horizon Europe" program for employees at the University of Banja Luka was held on February 16, 2022.The workshop held at the Rector's Office was intended for beginners and those who do not...
Alen Pavlović from CIHEAM-IAMB story
First of all, I would like to thank the European Commission in financing the project, as well as all the members of the SMARTWATER project, who gave me the opportunity to study at the CIHEAM IAMB Bari Institute I feel excited and proud at the same time, that I can...
