ACCESS AREA General information for Users 
- Available access
- Welcome Desks
- Eligibility general rules
- Selection of the User groups
- Deadlines
- Selected Users duties
- Glossary
AVAILABLE ACCESS
Following biannual specific calls CHARISMA offers the opportunity to research teams from EU or Associated States, to develop their studies and experiments using suitable advanced European instrumentations and resources.
An interested research team can make a choice among 3 different transnational access programs,
– two stays programs free of charge (travel and living expenses can be covered by the host institution) available at most advanced facilities, by
- ARCHLAB – the archives of European Museums and Cultural Heritage Institutions (ES, FR, IT, NL) containing analytical data on previous studies on different types of objects as paintings, sculptures, ceramics, glasses, metals, etc.;
- FIXLAB – the platforms of European large and medium scale facilities in France and in Hungary, where large and medium scale facilities (Synchrotron SOLEIL, Budapest Research Reactor for neutrons techniques, Ion beam facilities) are open to Users for the most advanced studies on artwork materials and their alterations;
– one mobile service program free of charge (transfer, travel and living expenses of operators covered by the provider institution) available for
- MOLAB – the mobile facilities for in situ non-invasive measurements, exploiting a “Mobile Laboratory” (IT, FR) that travels across Europe, allowing scientists and conservators to carry out measurements directly on unmovable or low-mobility objects in the same site where the artworks are placed or exhibited without any sampling or contact.
WELCOME DESKS
To be granted access to the infrastructures, an
application by the Group Leader is required,
describing the scientific background of project, the planned
strategy to achieve the proposed objectives and the justification
why access to a particular installation/instrument or to more
infrastructures is needed.
Please note that a User Group is a team of
one or more researchers that have obtained a given
access to an infrastructure for the same project. A User
Group Leader leads each User Group.
A devoted Welcome Desk for each program
(ARCHLAB, FIXLAB and MOLAB) is in charge of receiving the
applications, proposing an integrated accompanying help for every
facility/set of instrument capable to assess the whole program
relevance, to envisage the expected results and to provide a full
service during the stay of the Users).
Focused technical information to User groups on experimental work,
on feasibility aspects and other concerns will be provided by the
Welcome Desk, that, if required, could suggest the most appropriate
research installation, or even build together with the
proposer Group Leader, the complete work plan for the
stay.
To apply for access to CHARISMA facilities, please refer to:
– ARCHLAB Welcome
Desk
– FIXLAB Welcome
Desk
– MOLAB Welcome
Desk
finding terms of reference concerning information of Users/group, the APPLICATION FORM, the evaluation procedure, selection criteria etc.
ELIGIBILITY GENERAL RULES
Access is free for users from EU member and Associated states as long as the results can be made public. Therefore the Users and User groups can apply for transnational access as they satisfy the following conditions:
(a) the User group leader and the majority of the of the group members work in an institution established in a member state of the European Union or Associated States*.
* Associated States (Version 11/3/2009): Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Iceland, Israel, Lichtenstein, Montenegro, Norway, Switzerland, Turkey, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Serbia (for adjourned Associated States see Eligible countries – Associated Countries at http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/who_en.html#countries).
(b) the User Group Leader and the majority of the group members work in a country other than the country where the legal entity operating the infrastructure is established.
(c) only user groups that are entitled to disseminate the foreground they have generated under the project are eligible to benefit from access free of charge to the infrastructure.
The overall criteria for the selection process are also defined Grant Agreement Annex III.3 ( FP7 Grant Agreement Annex III – Infrastructures Ver.2, 2009-12-01). For information about reports and deliverables, confidentiality, publicity, rights to knowledge, access rights see the European Commission requirements in the mentioned GA Annex III.4-7.
SELECTION OF THE USER GROUPS
Access is granted on the basis of proposals which will be reviewed and evaluated by a minimum of four worldwide experts (Peer Review Panel) recognised for their expertise on chemical and physical applications to the studies and conservation of cultural heritage and, at least, three of whom shall be independent from the CHARISMA partners.
The selection is thus primarily based on the scientific quality,
and priority will be given:
– to User groups composed of users who have not previously
used the infrastructure concerned,
– to User groups composed of users who working in countries where
no such research instruments exist,
– to proposals that have a woman group leader and/or where the
majority of the group members are women.
DEADLINES
see calls for Transnational Access.
SELECTED USERS DUTIES
As soon as the experiments on the infrastructure come to end, to
enable the Commission to evaluate the Research Infrastructures
action and monitor the individual contract, each Group Leader
of a supported user-project is requested to,
– provide a Project Summary Report to be submitted to the
concerned access Research Infrastructure,
– complete the User Group Questionnaire available
on-line at
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/capacities/questionnaire_en.html
– publish the results within a reasonable time in the open
literature, specifying that the project leading to the
publication has received funding from the European 7th
Framework Programme : “Financial support by the Access to
Research Infrastructures activity in the 7th Framework Programme of
the EU (CHARISMA Grant Agreement n. 228330) is gratefully
acknowledged“
– give the names of the concerned Research Infrastructure and
its researchers /technology experts.
Users should also note that the European Commission has the right to publish the list of users, that will contain their names, home institutions and description of the work.
GLOSSARY
access provider : means the CHARISMA
participants that is in charge of providing access to the
infrastructure/s or installation/s,
infrastructure : means a facility, a resource
(or a coherent set of them) together with the related services,
that are used by the scientific community to conduct
research,
installation : means a part of an
infrastructure that could be used independently from the
rest,
user : means a researcher within a user
group, including the user group leader,
user group : means a research team of one
or more researchers given access to the infrastructure
under the project. Each user group is led by a user Group
Leader.
