Name Body "Coastal and Ocean Basin (COB)" "The Coastal & Ocean Basin (COB), located in Ostend, Belgium, is designed to study the effect of waves and currents on coastal and offshore structures, the generation of freak waves and the hydrodynamic and structural behaviour of devices for marine renewable energy. With basin dimensions of 30 m x 30 m, a variable water depth up to 1.4 m and wave-current interaction in any relative direction, the infrastructure offers excellent test conditions for coastal to near offshore applications related to coastal defence plans, offshore/floating structures and renewable energy technologies. A ..." "The Coastal & Ocean Basin (COB) (COB)" "With a wave pool and a towing tank, the new maritime research centre in Ostend stimulates the work of academic researchers and companies alike. The centre tests scale models of breakwaters, offshore wind turbines, artificial reefs and blue energy installations, but also of ships – and this for both sea and inland navigation." "A new state-of-the-art motion capturing system for testing new emerging offshore and coastal engineering technologies in the new ""Coastal & Ocean wave Basin (COB)"" in Ostend (MARINERGI)" "In view of the new EU Green Deal and the EU’s climate and clean energy ambition for 2030, we target the renewable ocean energy and offshore wind challenges. This is why the new Coastal & Ocean wave Basin (COB) in Belgium is integrated in MARINERG-i, a first step to an independent legal entity of internationally distributed testing infrastructures for Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE). MARINERG-i will strengthen scientific excellence, engineering expertise, investment and access to infrastructures in the field of ORE. Its combined facilities will foster innovation across offshore wind, ..." "MARINERG-i Offshore Renewable Energy Research (MARINERG-i)" "MARINERG-i will produce a scientific and business plan for an integrated European Research Infrastructure, designed to facilitate the future growth and development of the Offshore Renewable Energy sector. This plan will ensure that the MARINERG-i Research Infrastructure model attains the criteria necessary for being successful in an application to the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) roadmap in 2020. The MARINERG-i project is a first step in forming an independent legal entity of distributed testing infrastructures, united to create an integrated ..." "Flanders BioImaging ((FBI)/EBI)" "Flanders Bioimaging (FBI) is an interuniversity consortium focused on advanced light microscopy and biomedical imaging, set up to integrate, optimize and coordinate the available infrastructure in Flanders. This consortium includes infrastructure for the study from the molecular scale, over small and large animal models to human biomedical imaging.The main goal is to provide seamless access for international researchers through a link with the EuroBioImaging (EuBI) project, which received the status of European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) in 2019. Therefore, FBI ..." "European Marine Biological Resource Centre (EMBRC-BE) (EMBRC-BE)" "EMBRC-ERIC, or the European Marine Biological Resource Centre, is a distributed European Research Infrastructure Cluster, which provides and supports large scale and high quality marine science in Europe. It was established to bring together the distributed infrastructures and HR in European marine research groups to answer Europe's challenges related to food, health and global change. With 9 members (Belgium, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Spain and the UK), this ERIC offers access to a portfolio of research platforms, biological resources, analytical services, training, ..." "Flanders BioImaging (FBI/EBI)" "Flanders Bioimaging (FBI) is an interuniversity consortium focused on advanced light microscopy and biomedical imaging, set up to integrate, optimize and coordinate the available infrastructure in Flanders. This consortium includes infrastructure for the study from the molecular scale, over small and large animal models to human biomedical imaging. The main goal is to provide seamless access for international researchers through a link with the EuroBioImaging (EuBI) project, which received the status of European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) in 2019. Therefore, FBI provides ..."