Criteria of Eligibility

LASERLAB-EUROPE and its participating institutions accept users within the Transnational Access Activity of the 7th Framework Programme. http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/capacities/research-infrastructures_en.html

The Transnational Access Programme poses certain restrictions upon the eligibility of users, based on nationalities of group members and location of their home institutions. These restrictions are also subject to the Contract between the LASERLAB-EUROPE Consortium and the EU, and are mandatory to all parties involved. The main criteria for eligibility are outlined below. Additional information can be obtained directly from the EU Cordis web site indicated above or from the LASERLAB-EUROPE Co-ordinator's office: laserlab-access@laserlab-europe.eu

The ultimate decision about acceptance of users or user groups lies with the respective LASERLAB-EUROPE authorities, taking into account the eligibility conditions of the Programme and the scientific review and selection process which, in turn, is based on the scientific quality of the proposed research and the available resources.

Who is eligible?

Only research teams conducting their research in the Member States or Associated Countries are eligible to benefit from access to the infrastructure under the contract. The term "research team" means a group of one or more researchers not necessarily all coming from the same country.

To be eligible, a user group must satisfy the following conditions:

• both the user group leader and the majority of the users must work in an institution established in a Member State or Associated State;
• both the user group leader and the majority of the users must work in a  country other than the country(ies) where the legal entity(ies) operating the infrastructure is(are) established;
• only research teams that are entitled to publish the results of their project performed at the facility in the open press may apply for access to a participating infrastructure.

Eligible countries outside the European Union:
Associated countries: Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Faroe Islands, Iceland, Israel, Liechtenstein, Macedonia, Montenegro, Norway, Serbia, Switzerland and Turkey.

Further information about eligible countries outside the EU can be found here:
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/who_en.html

In addition, LASERLAB-EUROPE will not consider as eligible the proposals

•  which are submitted by an applicant affiliated to one of the 20 Access providing Infrastructures,
•  or which involve a majority of users affiliated to one of the 20 Access providing Infrastructures.