Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Gül A. (Yürütücü), Onuşluel Gül G., Çetinkaya C. P., Barbaros F., Günaçtı M. C., Özgenç Aksoy A., et al.
UFUK AVRUPA Projesi, 2022 - 2025
WATERLINE aims to create a European Digital Water Higher Education Institution (HEI) Alliance, based on the quadruple helix model
of innovation, leading to the development of the Alliance’s research, educational and entrepreneurship capacities. This shall leverage
the individual, institutional and regional resources required for a transformative structural and sustainable learning and innovation
environment. To achieve this, WATERLINE has five specific objectives: (1) support consolidation of the Alliance by co-creating a
common governance framework, and a Research & Innovation (R&I) capacity building plan; (2) co-create a portfolio of water
components for Master level and transform emulative laboratories in partner Widening HEIs into assisted and virtual reality. These
structural changes will lead to transformed and more competitive R&I HEIs; (3) strengthen WATERLINE researchers’ R&I capacity
excellence by implementing activities, such as summer schools to enhance education and R&I skills, and proposal writing workshop;
(4) build a European network of academics/researchers who, together with quadruple helix actors, will allow knowledge flow in water
domains and extended reality technologies. This allows greater involvement of regional actors in the R&I process and enhances one
of the major societal challenges: water-related education. Moreover, it will strengthen academic and business links through
academia-to-business meetings and a hackathon to mainstream entrepreneurship mindsets. WATERLINE will, finally, (5) sustain the
alliance by, (i) establishing ambassador networks, (ii) identifying the R&I funding landscape, thus increasing participation in HE and
the mobilisation of resources in the water sphere, and (iii) creating synergies with EU initiatives, institutions, other projects and
networks.