24 Aug 2023
Collaboration between ITU and Umeå University for Monitoring Ergene River
ITU and Umeå University (Sweden) collaborated for monitoring Ergene River. The vehicles produced will also be used in the seas and oceans.
News: İTÜ Media and Communication Office
As Istanbul Technical University celebrates its 250th anniversary, it continues to carry out important projects and partnerships at home and abroad. ITU collaborated with Umeå University (Sweden) for the TÜBİTAK-supported Ergene River Project, which started in 2021 and will be completed in March 2024.
With the project, it will be possible to rapidly identify chemicals and their emission sources in watersheds, to find pollution sources with advanced artificial intelligence models for sustainability, to warn authorities and prevent discharge rapidly.
The vehicles to be produced during the project will be released to European rivers and provide the
opportunity to control micropollutants reaching the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, as well as the North Sea, Baltic Sea, Mediterranean, Black Sea and Caspian Seas.