At the University of Aveiro (RISCO research unit and Department of Civil Engineering), the main objective within the project AX-COAST is the development of a cross-shore feature to improve the performance of COAST, a Coastal Optimization Assessment Tool, which considers a cost benefit evaluation of coastal erosion mitigation measures, in medium to long-term perspectives.

University of Aveiro will also collaborate on the definition of intervention scenarios, modelling them and perform sensitivity assessment to model parameters. This task considers the calibration of a reference scenario of non-intervention and the projection of the shoreline position for a period of 20 years for this reference scenario. Adding to the previous, other scenarios will be defined, focused on the feature’s improvements proposed in the project and shoreline projections in a 20 years time horizon will be performed. Finally, a sensitivity analysis will be developed, to assess which input data is relevant for COAST and how the quality of the data affects the results.