Between October 3 - 7, 2022, in Leuven, Belgium, an Innovation Camp took place within the Erasmus+ project "Digitalization of water industry by innovative graduate water education / DIGIWATER". The theme of this Innovation Camp, which was attended by mixed teams from the six partner countries of the project (Norway, Romania, Germany, Belgium, Cyprus, and Turkey), was the use of modern technologies (IoT, Big Data, etc.) in solving current problems in the water industry.

The jury selected two of the proposals to enter an initial phase of 6 weeks to obtain a prototype and then, under the guidance of Sumaqua, Belgium, a final phase of 6 months to obtain a working pilot system. One of the selected proposals was formed by Lăbus Andrei-Petrișor, a third-year student in the Automation and Applied Informatics specialization at the Faculty of Automation, Computer Sciences, Electronics, and Electrical Engineering, "Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati, and Ph.D. student Danitza Salazar, KU Leuven, Belgium.

The student Lăbuș Andrei-Petrișor presented the application selected by the jury: "Due to the greenhouse effect, floods and droughts are becoming more frequent. This happens because the atmosphere has a greater capacity to hold water, favoring both drought and flooding. During floods buffer zones can slow runoff and absorb excess water, reducing peak flows and flooding. Our idea was to create software for recognizing these areas using different algorithms and technologies, such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and satellite mapping. With this system, research time could be reduced and buffer zone selection as precise as possible according to certain criteria or parameters".

The institutional manager from "Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati for the Erasmus+ project "Digitalization of water industry by innovative graduate water education / DIGIWATER" is Professor Marian Barbu Ph.D.