EU member country or associated state (regardless of their nationality) to apply for beam time at one of the participating facilities. If the proposal is approved through this programme the user group can receive travel and subsistence support from the facility. Transnational access allows researchers to choose the best-suited instrument/facility for pursuing their scientific questions. NMI3 includes access to all European neutron and muon facilities, (apart from the ILL). The present project the ACCESS programme will run over 24 months. Where does the funding come from? Who is eligible? Who evaluates on which criteria? What is the counterpart? How to publish the data? Personal data remains confidential Where does the funding come from? The NMI3 project is supported by the European Commission through the 7th Framework Programme and it is part of the Research Infrastructures action of the Capacities Programme and supports transnational access to 12 European facilities for users coming from EU Member or Associated States. The EU funds provide free access to the facilities, and provide support for travel and subsistence expenses for, typically, one young scientist per experiment. It is also possible to send samples and receive the data without the user visiting. Who is eligible? To be eligible to benefit from the Access to a European facility under the NMI3 action, both the user group leader and the majority of the user group members must be affiliated to an institute located in a Member State (except the country of the chosen facility) or in an Associated State. (Note: the affiliation of the researchers is decisive - and not their nationality). Applicants must complete the proposal form of the resp. facility carefully with names, nationalities and home institutions of the researchers expected to take part in the experiment: this information is vital for the eligibility check. Who evaluates on which criteria? The proposals eligible for EU funding will be refereed - together with all other proposals - by the Facility Scientific Panel. The Panel assesses the scientific merits of all proposals and decides on priorities and experiment time allocation. Certain priority is given to young scientists, new neutron & muon users and projects from countries where no such neutron facility exist. What is the counterpart? After the experiments, users must provide a short experimental report, using the report form of the facility, where the objectives and also the achievements/difficulties of the performed experiment are summarized. Also after the experiment, funded users are required to complete a questionnaire directly on the EU data base. (http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/capacities/questionnaire_en.html ) How to publish the data? The user group is entitled to publicize all results of the EU NMI3 supported experiments. (Exception can be made for first time users from small and medium enterprises) The support by the NMI3 project must be acknowledged in any papers or conference proceedings that are published as a result of this work. The following paragraph should be included in the acknowledgments section: “This research project has been supported by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme through the Key Action: Strengthening the European Research Area, Research Infrastructures. Contract n°: CP-CSA_INFRA-2008-1.1.1 Number 226507-NMI3" Personal data remains confidential Users are required to provide some personal data, which will be recorded and used for the purposes indicated below. The data will be processed for funding, statistical and administrative purposes connected with their research, and to statistically analyse the membership of the neutron scattering community. The data are collected by the NMI3 project manager on behalf of the European Commission, and therefore may be accessed by the NMI3 project coordinators and the European Commission for official use only, and will remain confidential. The personal data will be kept safe and secure and will not be shared with other organisations without the knowledge of the users, unless this is required by law. If an e-mail address is requested by the EC, this is solely for the purpose of conducting a mid-term review if necessary, and it will not be divulged to any third party, or used for marketing purposes.		Transnational ACCESS will be provided by 10 partners offering more than 1400 days of beam time. This will give European users access to all of the relevant European research infrastructures and hence the possibility to use the best adapted infrastructure for their research CLICK HERE TO SEE ALL THE ACCESS DEADLINES OF THE EUROPEAN FACILITIES AND ALL THE LINKS TO THE SPECIFIC FACILITIES " ACCESS WEBSITES Neutron and Muon European Facilities • Berlin Neutron Scattering Centre (HMZ- BENSC) - Hans Graf • Budapest Research Reactor - Rozsa Baranyai • FRM-II - Juergen Neuhaus • Geesthacht Neutron Facility (GeNF)- Regine Willumeit • ISIS Pulsed Neutron Facility - Uschi Steigenberger • ISIS Pulsed Muon Facility - Philip King • Jülich Centre for Neutron Science JCNS - Thomas Gutberlet • Laboratoire Leon Brillouin - Susana Gota-Goldmann • Reactor Institute Delft (RID) - Menno Blaauw • Rez Neutron Physics Laboratory (NPL) - Pavol Mikula • SmuS Swiss Muon Source - Stefan Janssen • Swiss Spallation Neutron Source SINQ - Stefan Janssen
The NMI3 FP6 access programme: more than 900 experiments and a large number of outstanding results published in high-impact journals. Have a look to the selection of Science Highlights