The National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) is one of the oldest (est. 1837) and most prestigious Universities of Greece. NTUA is structured according to the continental European system for training engineers, with an emphasis on solid background.

The National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) is one of the oldest (est. 1837) and most prestigious Universities of Greece. NTUA is structured according to the continental European system for training engineers, with an emphasis on solid background. NTUA has 9 Schools, 512 faculty members, 4.090 external collaborators, 23.914 students, 300,000 sq.m. of installations. The University operates 194 laboratories, 140 of which are certified. NTUA Faculty members publish annually more than 3.000 scientific papers (in journals, conference proceedings, chapters in volumes etc.) which earn more than 20.000 citations. NTUA’s equal and interrelated priorities are education and scientific research. The research programmes that are undertaken at the Institution are subject to established academic standards and are funded by NTUA’s own resources, by the General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT) and other public bodies, by the European Union or by private sector companies in Greece and other countries. NTUA will participate in the project through the Laboratory of Hydrology and Water Resources Development (HWRM) of the Department of Water Resources Management and Env. Engineering of the School of Civil Engineering.

HWRM is centre of excellence on water resources and environmental management with an active role at national and European levels. Of interest to HWRM is the domain of hydroinformatics and the design and modelling of complex water systems. HWRM is actively involved in stochastic hydrological analysis and simulation, water resources assessment, extreme event modelling (floods, droughts) and assessment of their consequences, climate and its interactions with water, development of advanced multi-objective optimization models, critical water infrastructure protection, cyber-physical security for water systems, water in the circular economy, reuse and recycling and water-energy systems. Of particular interest to the Lab are issues of immersive visualisation of model results for improved decision making. HWRM is a member of European Networks, such as Watershare and WSSTP. End users of laboratory’ s work include: The Ministries of Regional Development and Decentralization, Infrastructure, Transportation and Networks, Environment, Energy and Climate Change and Rural Development, the Hellenic National Meteorological Service, the Public Power Corporation, the Athens Water Supply and Sewerage Company, Municipal Enterprises for Water Supply and Sewerage from Greece and other EU member states. The laboratory is also cooperating with water and environmental companies and consultancies on applied research and development.

HWRM is involved in several national and European projects containing work and activities related to hydro-informatics applications, digital platforms development, and AI approaches in general. Indicative projects that have been successfully completed or are ongoing are: IMPETUS-H2020 (to be started on Sept 2021), EIFFEL H2020(started on 1st June 2021), FIWARE4WATER-H2020 (2019-2022), NEXTGEN-H2020 (2018-2022), SUBSOL-H2020 (2015-2018), PEARL – FP7 (2014-2018), IWIDGET -FP7 (2012-2015).