The European Union offers a free-of-charge access to IFREMER
Marine Environment Tests and Research Infrastructure

Within the framework of the specific research and technological development programme
"Structuring the European Research Area".
Research Infrastructure/Transnational Access
Contract No 026010 (RITA)

Project co-ordinated by Ifremer,
French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (France)

Access conditions

The access is free of charge for European Research teams and for small/medium-sized companies which conduct scientific and technical studies on the behaviour of materials, equipment, sub-marine vehicle, instrumentation, physical and physico-chemical sensors…in marine environment.
Prospective applicants can propose short-term projects which will be selected on the basis of scientific merit through an independent peer review procedure.

The contract took end the first September of 2010 

METRI – 1 Results

METRI – 2 Results

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Five accessible installations

The deep wave testing
basin

The water circulation
testing basin

The hyperbaric testing
 tank laboratory

The material behaviour
testing laboratory

The marine sensor
evaluation laboratory