Abstract:

The integration of the students in the university research team has a great value since they have a different point of view and are really good handling the current technological tools. Moreover, it is a way that the university offers to teach how the students could to apply their knowledge and achieve good results, always under the guidance of a research team.

The University of the Basque Country has reached cooperation agreements with those companies that are committed to offering technical support. In addition there are many studies which cannot be developed with the time that it is required in the administration. The Basque Meteorological Service “Euskalmet” has an open data access of the historical ocean-meteorological database available.

However, most of researches require time and a background in a specific area which means that it is difficult for the student to combine different activities during the academic year. The aim of this paper is to show our experience of the last ten years in this area with regard to define a student project, to optimize the results and to collaborate with all the entities; always depending on the time available, the objective proposed and potential benefits to be reached.

A close collaboration of all the entities involved is crucial to achieve good results. Nowadays the authors are working in the area of ocean-meteorology (coastal zone) and in particular in development of new tools to improve the beach management.

Keywords:

Coastal zone, students, project, ocean-meteorology.