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The development of XBeach has drawn the interest of engineering firms and contractors who use the software for consultancy work both in the Netherlands and abroad. These activities have resulted in questions (about use and applications) and requests (for further development and validation). Currently there is no platform for addressing these requests.

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The objective of this project is to establish an XBeach Joint Industry Project to create a community of private (engineering firms and contractors) and public parties (UNESCO-IHE, TU Delft and Deltares) joining together to:

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The first session, the kick-off, was held on July 7^th, 2015, where based on presentations by partners who presented on most needed developments, a first prioritization was made in an interactive setting. The agenda is below.

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The attendants list was as follows:

• Arcadis: Henk Steetzel
• Boskalis: Jaap van Thiel de Vries
• Fugro: Martin van der Meer, Peter Geisenhainer, Carolin Briele
• Grontmij: Jana Steenbergen-Kajabová
• HKV: Hermjan Barneveld
• IMDC: Annelies Bolle
• Royal Haskoning DHV: Mark Klein
• Svašek Hydraulics: Bas van Leeuwen
• Van den Herik: Auke Terlouw
• Van Oord: Peter Brandenburg
• Witteveen+Bos: Willem Bodde
• Flanders Hydraulics: Joris Vanlede
• TU Delft: Ad Reniers
• UNESCO-IHE: Johan Reyns
• Deltares: Ap van Dongeren, Pieter van Geer, Arnold van Rooijen, Kees Nederhoff, Joost den Bieman.

Sprint  Sprint session 2

The second session was held on October 3rd, 2015, where we developed six topics to develop XBeach on. These topics are:

1. Sandy coast – longshore
2. Sandy coast – cross shore 
3. New computational methods                                         
4. Structures                                                                         
5. Hydrodynamics in ports                                                                            
6. Support/IT   

Sprint session 3                        

This session is to be held on January 29th 2015.