Research Infrastructures: Transnational Access, Virtual Access, HorizonEurope Calls 22/06/2021 - 23/09/2021

What is Transnational Access?

Transnational Access ensures free of charge access to the best European research infrastructures. Apart from the cost of research itself, travel, accommodation and subsistence costs maybe reimbursed by the projects budget.
This opportunity is open to all European researchers and to some extent to researchers from non-EU countries. More information about Transnational Access

What is Virtual Access?

Virtual Access ensures free of charge access to e-infrastructure, namely to: Sophisticated computer services; Powerful computers, networks, grids, repositories, databanks; Safely storing large quantities of scientific data; Participation in virtual research communities; World-class operational communication and computing infrastructure to facilitate scientific research.

TA/VA Calls for Proposals :

ESTEEM3 | Enabling Science and Technology through European Electron Microscopy | Material Sciences & Analytical Facilities

Transnational Access Info:
ESTEEM3 – Enabling Science and Technology through European Electron Microscopy – is an EU funded project for electron microscopy, which aims at providing access to the leading European state-of-the-art electron microscopy research infrastructures, facilitating and extending transnational access services of the most powerful atomic scale characterization techniques in advanced electron microscopy research to a wide range of academic and industrial research communities for the analysis and engineering of novel materials in physical, chemical and biological sciences.

ESTEEM3 objective is to deliver access to users coming from a wider range of disciplines. Transnational Access (TA) to ESTEEM3 centers is obtained through a transparent, simple peer review process based on merit and scientific priorities. Optimum service to users is supported by Networking Activities (NA) and Joint Research Activities (JRA), which address key issues such as specimen preparation, data interpretation, treatment and automation through theory and simulation, and standardization of protocols and methodologies.

The call for TNA applications is continous.

Status: OPEN

More info on the project: https://www.esteem3.eu/

More info on the access: https://www.esteem3.eu/access

CALIPSOplus | Convenient Access to Light Sources Open to Innovation, Science and to the World | Material Sciences & Analytical Facilities

Transnational Access Info:
The aim of the CALIPSOplus project is to remove barriers for access to world-class accelerator-based light sources in Europe and in the Middle East. To this end more than 82,500 hours of trans-national access are provided to these research infrastructures and specific programmes are in place to teach new users how to successfully use synchrotrons and FELs (access to synchrotrons, FEL-IR, FEL-X-ray, Hard X-ray).

For more information about the funding procedure for Trans-national Access within CALIPSOplus please visit the website of each facility you are interested in.

Status: OPEN

More info on the project: http://www.calipsoplus.eu/

More info on the access: http://www.calipsoplus.eu/trans-national-access/

EU_FT-ICR_MS | European Network of Fourier-Transform Ion-Cyclotron-Resonance Mass Spectrometry Centers | Material Sciences & Analytical Facilities

Transnational Access Info:
EU_FT-ICR_MS proposal aims to establish a European network of FT-ICR (Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance) mass spectrometry (MS) centers in association with a manufacturer and a SME software company. Mass spectrometry (MS) has become the most ubiquitous analytical techniques in use today, providing more information on the composition and the structure of a substance from a smaller amount of sample than any other techniques.

The network includes centers equipped with up-to-date FT-ICR MS and expertise which will cover most of the field in which FT-ICR mass spectrometry is involved: BioOrganic & BioInorganic, Cultural heritage, Glycomics, Environment, Imaging, InfraRed Spectroscopy of Ions in the Gas Phase, Lipidomics, Medicine, Petroleum & Coal Oil, Nanoparticles, Organic chemistry, Physical chemistry, Proteomics, Structural biology.

To gain access to one of the centers, you have to submit a inquiry through the  proposal system . Submissions are welcome at any time. The evaluation procedure should lead to an answer to the proposer within 4 weeks of the submission date.

Status: OPEN

More info on the project: http://www.eu-fticr-ms.eu/

More info on the access: http://www.eu-fticr-ms.eu/

RADIATE | Research And Development with Ion Beams – Advancing Technology in Europe | Material Sciences & Analytical Facilities

Transnational Access Info:
RADIATE aims to provide easy, flexible and efficient access to researchers from academia and industry to European ion beam facilities. Over the course of the project’s run-time, more than 15.800 hours of transnational access (TA) will be offered at 11 of RADIATE’s project partners. Through transnational access, RADIATE is able to offer a wide range of ion beams of all stable elements in the periodic table from low to high ion energies. RADIATE unifies diverse but complementary facilities across Europe and creates a coherent network.

RADIATE will diversify, widen, and deepen transnational access. The main objective is to enlarge the community of ion beam technologies to users from new disciplines and new industries. The aim is to have a sustainable increase in new users by the end of the project. RADIATE will do so by catering to the specific needs of new, first time users and offer sample preparation, characterization, quality assurance, clean room, and sample storage amongst other things. The call for TNA applications is continous.

Status: OPEN

More info on the project: https://www.ionbeamcenters.eu/radiate/

More info on the access: https://www.ionbeamcenters.eu/radiate/radiate-transnational-access/

Life Sciences

INSPIRE | Infrastructure in Proton International Research | Life sciences

Transnational Access Info:
Inspire’s Transnational Access infrastructure is dedicated to providing free access to research rooms in clinical proton beam therapy centres across Europe. Transnational Access is an opportunity to promote excellent science through trans-European collaboration, rather than the provision of a service. In this way Europe’s research capabilities and expertise in the field will grow and it will harness the potential of researchers that do not normally have access to Proton Beam Therapy technology.

Status: OPEN

More info on the project: https://protonsinspire.eu/

More info on the access: https://protonsinspire.eu/

EPIC-XS | European Proteomics Infrastructure Consortium providing Access | Life sciences

Transnational Access Info:

ACCESS: EPIC-XS supports all European member states and associated countries as well as International laboratories (in a more limited capacity), to perform proteomics research across a trans-national platform. National access is permitted only in situations where a particular generic technologies e.g. 2D gel electrophoresis, in gel digestion etc  are available at multiple locations and the user cannot claim travel expenses when availing of national access and is limited to 10% of access capacity of the site.

TECHNOLOGY: A total infrastructure of over 80 state-of-the-art mass spectrometers are available in eleven transnational access sites. Our team  have over 30 Orbitrap’s, more than 10 Q – TOF’s, and  5 Triple Quad’s. The platform also houses a series of MALDI-TOF/TOF’s and FT-ICR high resolution instruments. Different access sites will host projects with different requirements according to the technological expertise available  (e.g. PTM analysis, membrane protein analysis, Bio-imaging, native structure analysis, native MS).

Proposals are accepted continuously with cut-off dates every 3 months (Mar, Jun, Sep, Dec).

Status: OPEN

More info on the project: https://epic-xs.eu/

More info on the access: https://epic-xs.eu/submit-proposal-2/

ARIES | Accelerator Research and Innovation for European Science and Society | Physics and Astronomy

Transnational Access Info:
The ARIES project offers transnational access to 14 different testing facilities across Europe. The programme supports users to conduct testing within five separate domains:

• Magnet testing
• Material testing
• Electron and proton beam testing
• Radiofrequency testing
• Plasma beam testing

Interested parties are encouraged to identify the facility most appropriate for their needs and to check their eligibility before applying.

Continuous call

Status: OPEN

More info on the project: http://aries.web.cern.ch/

More info on the access: http://aries.web.cern.ch/content/transnational-access

EMP | European Microkelvin Platform | Physics and Astronomy

Transnational Access Info:
The European Microkelvin Platform (EMP) is a consortium of 17 partners which have an extensive portfolio of capacities and expertise in ultralow temperature physics. The EMP has been established in 2014 und provides access to the milli- and microkelvin temperature regime. Since the lowest accessible temperatures are continuously falling, we also lay considerable weight on improving and upgrading our infrastructure. These advances allow us, and our users from across Europe, to study new phenomena, thereby generating new knowledge, applications and commercial opportunities. We have a particular interest in the benefits of ultralow temperature physics for driving forward the inter-related areas of quantum materials, nanoscience, and quantum technology. The activities of the EMP hold enormous potential for innovation.

The call for TNA applications is continous.

Status: OPEN

More info on the project: https://emplatform.eu/

More info on the access: https://emplatform.eu/user/call

Full List of Transnational and Virtual Access opportuntiies 

HORIZON EUROPE GRANTS:

Research infrastructures services advancing frontier knowledge

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Research infrastructures services to support research addressing cancer

Open for submission

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Support to National Contact Points (NCPs) for Research Infrastructures

Open for submission

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Support to the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures

Open for submission

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Research infrastructures services enabling the development of materials for a circular economy

Open for submission

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Research infrastructures services for responding to climate-related risks on the environment

Open for submission

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Research infrastructures services for a sustainable and resilient agriculture and agro-ecological transitions

Open for submission

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Research infrastructures services for sustainable and inclusive Global Value Chain and Europe recovery from socio-economic crises

Open for submission

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Strengthen the bilateral cooperation on research infrastructures with Africa: improving the knowledge base on climate change in Africa

Open for submission

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Next generation digital aircraft transformation in design, manufacturing, integration and maintenance

Open for submission

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