• The infrastructure sites
• Access rules
• Calls and selection
• Follow-up
• Selected projects and resulting achievements
• ON-LINE APPLICATION SYSTEM

Access rules

Here follows the rules set up by the ASSEMBLE Consortium together with the European Commission for this Transnational Access activity.

Eligibility

To be eligible to benefit from access to any of the ASSEMBLE infrastructure sites a user group (a research team of one or more researchers) must satisfy the following two conditions (see also Annex 3 to Grant Agreement).

The user group leader and the majority of the users must work in an institution established in a Member State of the European Union or State associated to Framework Programme 7 (Switzerland, Israel, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Turkey, Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Serbia, Albania and Montenegro, from http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/who_en.html).

The user group leader and the majority of the users must work in a country other than the country where the legal entity operating the ASSEMBLE infrastructure site applied for is established.

Only user groups that are entitled to disseminate the knowledge they have generated under the project are eligible to benefit from access free of charge to the infrastructure under this grant agreement.

Priorities

The selection panel shall base its selection on scientific merit. No preexisting scientific contacts between applicants and scientists at the hosting institutes are needed; on the contrary new connections and new users are favoured. Priority will be given to user groups composed of users who:

- have not previously used the ASSEMBLE infrastructure site applied for;

- are working in countries where no such research infrastructure site exists (including marine material for shipping);

Confidentiality

The access provider shall ensure that the users have the same rights and obligations in regard to confidentiality as referred to for the access provider in Article II.9. (Annex 2 to Grant Agreement)

Publicity

The access provider shall ensure that the users have the same rights and obligations in regard to publicity as referred to for the access provider in Article II.12 (Annex 2 to Grant Agreement).

Users should make suitable publicity in their publications and reports about the support given by the European Community for the access provided to them, referring to ASSEMBLE grant agreement no. 227799.

Rights to knowledge

The access provider shall ensure that the users enjoy, on a royalty-free basis, access rights to the background of the access provider and to the knowledge generated in the ASSEMBLE project, if needed to carry out their own work under the project. The access provider shall inform, as soon as possible, the users of any restriction which might substantially affect the granting of access rights.

Insurance

Full health/travel insurance and pre-flight cancellation insurance is obligatory. It must cover the full period from arrival to departure, cover pre-existing medical conditions, and include world-wide travel assistance and emergency air transportation services. This is a private cost not covered by the grant. Certain activities (e.g. diving) may require the visitor to obtain additional special insurance cover.