Underwater Sensor Networks (USNs) are becoming increasingly popular due to their advanced capabilities in oceanographic data collection, pollution monitoring, exploration of natural undersea resources, disaster prevention, assisted navigation and tactical surveillance applications. The MONUSEN project will increase research and innovation capabilities of the University of Montenegro Faculty of Electrical Engineering (UoM-FEE) via links with the internationally leading EU research institutions: Institute of Marine Engineering of the Italian National Research Council (CNR-INM), University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (UNIZG-FER) and Newcastle University (UNEW). The project will reduce the gaps and deficiencies between the UoM-FEE and its EU research counterparts and improve staff research profiles in the USN field. It will strive for scientific excellence based on the transfer of knowledge and expertise, improved creativity, strong partnerships with the leading research institutions and industry, and improved research management and administration at the UoM.

These objectives will be reached through a set of strategic measures: staff exchanges and expert visits for providing knowledge transfer, on-site trainings for providing hands-on experience, joint research actions. research and innovation management trainings, research-industry workshops for strengthening links to marine robotics industry; jointly organized hackathons on topics dictated by industry needs within the scope of the joint research actions, summer schools with strong emphasis on strengthening links to USN end-users from marine biology, marine archaeology, oceanography, marine security, etc.