CENN’s project, ‘Innovating Climate Services Through Integrating Scientific and Local Knowledge’ (I-CISK), is collaborating with Iakob Gogebashvili Telavi State University.
The collaboration has two main focuses. Firstly, university representatives are members of the Alazani Multi-Actor Platform, playing an active role in developing a streamflow prediction system for the Alazani-Iori Basin. Secondly, Tsisana Kolotadze, a Master’s student at the Faculty of Agricultural, Natural Sciences and Technologies, wrote her Master’s thesis in Ecology within the framework of the project on the topic: „Hydrological Monitoring and Evaluation of the Irrigation System in the Alazani-Iori Basin for Mitigating Climate Change-Induced Problems“.
This research was based on data collected in the Alazani and Iori Basins in 2023–2024 as part of the I-CISK project, which aimed to study and assess existing irrigation systems. The thesis once again highlighted the challenges related to the irrigation system in the Alazani-Iori Basin and the necessity of developing a streamflow prediction system.