Research Infrastructure

This theme focuses on the collaborative and international aspects of the GEOLAB research initiative, providing comprehensive access to the research infrastructure across borders. The deliverables in this theme aim to document and facilitate transnational access, allowing researchers from diverse regions to engage with and benefit from GEOLAB resources. These outputs also include virtual access initiatives, enabling a broader audience to explore and reuse experimental data, contributing to an open, accessible platform for innovation in geotechnical engineering.

D02.02 Booklet of Themed Transnational Access Period 1

D02.3 Booklet of themed Transnational Access period 2

D08.01 Description Geolab Research Infrastructure

D10.6 Virtual Access to Database on re-use of experiments

First Call for Proposals

GEOLAB provides a comprehensive suite of 11 complementary installations equipping the users from academia and industry with renowned tools for excellent research for the energy, water, urban and transport infrastructure sector.

The installations were specifically selected to ensure a wide range of capabilities to address problems across experiment scales, disciplinary boundaries and Technology Readiness Levels (TRL).

The research infrastructure installations are used to study the following:

Ground stability related issues, e.g. consolidation, seepage, liquefaction, (coastal) erosion and slope stability.
Water-soil-structure interaction, e.g. for roads, railways, tunnels, bridges, dams, foundations, buildings and buried cables & pipelines.
Interaction of infrastructure systems with the environment, e.g. impact of climate change, extreme weather events, geo-hazards, static & dynamic loading and aging.

This First Call for Proposals is an invitation to all eligible organisations to submit a proposal for an experiment to be hosted in one of the above mentioned facilities. The theme of the present call is: ‘Experiments that prove innovative solutions to enhance the resilience of Critical Infrastructure (CI) in Europe’.

The deadline for proposals is October 10th, 2021, 23.59 CET. Proposals received after this time cannot be considered.
Proposals are reviewed by a group of independent experts (the User Selection Panel), of which the outcome is expected in December 2021.

The GEOLAB project provides User Groups access free of charge to the facilities for their research project and covers travel and subsistence costs (within prescribed limits) as well. State-of-the-art measuring instruments, data-acquisition and processing systems will be available, as well as modern support facilities, such as library, computers, and internet access. Furthermore, visiting researchers are offered a scientific and intellectual environment, with assistance and guidance from experts at the host institute.