DENIZLI GOVERNORSHIP

The Governorship of Denizli is the provincial administration of the Turkish central government (Ministry of Interior) in the Aegean region of Türkiye, a Horizon Europe Associated Country. It coordinates all provincial directorates, including Agriculture and Forestry, Environment and Urbanisation, and Disaster Management, for a province of over one million inhabitants.

Denizli combines diverse agriculture, including viticulture, with the water-stressed Büyük Menderes river basin, geothermal resources and the Pamukkale-Hierapolis UNESCO World Heritage Site. These are real-world settings for Cluster 6 challenges on water, agriculture and the environment.

Our IT Department has in-house capacity in data infrastructure, IoT and AI, including PhD-level expertise in federated learning and IoT security. We are currently preparing a Lead Partner application under Interreg NEXT MED.

Role in Horizon Europe projects: pilot site / living lab provider; public end-user and policy uptake partner; access to farmers, cooperatives, advisors and municipalities for multi-actor co-creation; technical partner for AI, IoT and secure data-sharing tasks; dissemination and replication at provincial and national level.