An integrated infrastructure initiative executed by a consortium of 20 internationally renowned European research institutes, universities, and enterprises. HYDRALAB III is an extension of HYDRALAB II, in which 15 partners were working closely together with the objective of optimising the important position of laboratory experiments in our fields. HYDRALAB III will intensify this by a coordinated program of transnational access, joint research activities and networking activities, destined to improve, refine and harmonise the use of the available high-quality facilities and measuring methods in our fields. HYDRALAB III will improve the performance of unique experimental facilities through:

• 8 complementary access activities to 24 experimental facilities; enabling researchers in Europe to carry out research in facilities for which, if it wasn't for this programme, they normally have no possibilities to.
• 2 mutually focussed joint research activities on:
  • improving methods of modelling the interactions between beaches and structures by developing composite modelling techniques
  • innovating instruments and good practice protocols for mobile bed tests
• 4 networking activities, in which Hydralab III will be managed, knowledge will be disseminated to the user community and the use of our high-quality facilities and measuring methods will be improved.

In our activities we also specifically focus on the involvement of females and young researchers. By doing so, HYDRALAB III will have a long term integrating effect on the operation and interaction of the infrastructures in HyGESI, with the perspective of establishing a series of virtual European laboratories, thus contributing to the structuring of the European research area (era). Find out more about this project on the HYDRALAB III website.