For the fifth year in a row, Marin will offer five Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs) a free basin slot of two weeks in 2018.
The initiative aims at stimulating innovation in the Dutch maritime sector and lowering the threshold for SMEs to test their new ideas and concepts.
Free Basin Slots and Workshop
Marin offers SMEs a free basin slot of two weeks (eighty basin hours including a qualified test engineer) and a one-day workshop with an experienced Marin Project Manager and Project Engineer. The free basin slots allow feasibility checks and improvements in an early phase of a new concept development. They are not meant as final or formal tests of a design, or for optimisation of existing designs. This total offer represents a value of roughly 40,000 euros per client and is a Marin offer to its clients (not a governmental subsidy).
Concept Basin
The Concept Basin has a length of 220 m, a width of 4 m and a depth of 4 m. The basin has a strong overhead carriage. The basin is equipped with a single flap wave maker on one end and a parabolic wave absorbing beach at the other end. The basin is filled with fresh water.
On special request Marin might also be able to allow concept tests in the Shallow Water Basin (220 m × 15.8 m, 0-1.1 m deep).
Further Assistance
Clients can bring in their own models and can perform and analyse the tests themselves. However, Marin can also assist in model making, instrumentation, analysis and reporting at regular rates. Experience in previous years shown that clients typically spent 20,000-30,000 euros in addition to the free basin time.
The call for the free basin slots in 2018 closes on 31 December 2017.
