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
The first summer school within the SMARTWATER project!
The SMARTWATER project is organizing the first of the three planned summer schools in scope of the project activities. The first summer school will be organized on the topic of the Integrated approach for agricultural water management. The Faculty of Agriculture of...
Fertilization, irrigation and crop growth development at the UNSA (Butmir) location
In scope of the current SMARWATER project joint experimental study activities, a fertilization has been performed last month at the Butmir location (University of Sarajevo).The fertilization was performed on Friday June 25th with a KAN fertilizer. This is the first...
Drought as a “normal situation” in Bosnia and Herzegovina?
Bosnia and Herzegovina, in part of Herzegovina, is characterized by a longer drought period during the summer season, due to the modified Mediterranean climate. The drought has been so far a "normal state" in Herzegovina. In addition to the high temperature,...
Maize crop affected by drought stress in June – time to irrigate it!
Drought? Heat wave? Climate change? That is why we are conducting the research. In June, a very small amount of precipitation and very high temperatures were recorded. The higher temperatures that reached up to 40° C in the last two weeks of June has shown a negative...
1st Stakeholder meeting – STATE AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR DEVELOPMENT OF IRRIGATION SYSTEM IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
Smartwater.eu 1st multistakeholder meeting was held online on 9th June 2021, with than 30 participants.Within Smartwater.eu, 1st multistakeholder meeting was held online on 9th June 2021, from 10 to 12:30. More than 30 participants joined, actively participating in a...
Fertilization of BL 43 maize hybrid in the V6 development stage at the Experimental Educational Center Aleksandrovac
In scope of the current SMARWATER project joint experimental study activities, a fertilization has been performed at the locations of the Experimental Educational Center Aleksandrovac (University of Banja Luka). The fertilization was performed on Friday June...
SMARTWATER project presentation at the AgroReS Symposium
The SMARTWATER project was presented at the IX INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND XXV CONFERENCE OF AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERS OF REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA AgroReS 2021 organized by the Faculty of Agriculture, Banja Luka, Bosnia and...
Cluster meeting “Sustainable Agriculture and natural resources”
SMARTWATER project team presented the SMARTWATER project at the online Cluster meeting “Sustainable Agriculture and natural resources” organized by European Research Executive Agency (REA) on May 20, 2021. The projects that belong the H2020 program “Spreading...
Setting up the experiment and maize crop sowing activities within the SMARTWATER project activities
In scope of the Horizon 2020 project "Promoting SMART agricultural WATER management in Bosnia and Herzegovina" - SMARTWATER activities,a joint experimental activities have started at the locations of Aleksandrovac (University of Banja Luka) and Butmir (University of...
The first activities within the SMARTWATER project!
Spring began, and along with it so did the first activities of the experimental part of the SMARTWATER project. The University of Sarajevo (UNSA) is a part of research activities within WP3 (Networking and knowledge sharing) together with the University of Banja Luka...
