RIVERSCIENCE

The aim of SMART is to provide education and research at PhD level that trains the doctoral candidate to think globally and co-work in multidisciplinary research teams. This will make SMART alumni attractive scientists/engineers for employment in EU and worldwide local and international institutions, universities, private companies, and research bodies... SMART is a multidisciplinary and inter-sectoral consortium composed of 3 partner universities with a decade of successful cooperation: University of Trento (Italy, Coordinator); Queen Mary University of London (United Kingdom) and Freie Universität of Berlin (Germany). Associate partners include 9 Universities, 4 Private Companies, 2 Government Agency and 4 Research Institutes covering 9 different countries and 4 continents... The SMART Programme focuses on the core areas of natural and engineering sciences relevant to the sustainable management of river systems from their headwaters to estuaries. Specifically it adopts a..