European funding for experiments at RID

Introduction

RID is member of a network of European neutron facilities – the "Integrated Infrastructure Initiative for Neutron Scattering and Muon Spectroscopy" (NMI3).

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.

It brings together 21 partners from 13 countries, including 10 research infrastructures.

General

Within the NMI3 activity, RID has received funds for Transnational Access, foreseen for support of external RID users coming from EU Member States or Associated States.

The EU funds provide free access to the RID neutron and positron 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 RID. Upon consultation with RID, the stay at RID can be extended for preparation and data reduction.

Conditions

To be eligible to benefit from the Access to RID 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 Netherlands) or in an Associated State. (Note: the affiliation of the researchers is decisive - and not their nationality). Applicants must complete the proposal form 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.

The proposals eligible for EU funding will be refereed - together with all other proposals - by the RID 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 users and projects from countries where no such neutron facility exist.

After the experiments, users must provide a short experimental report, using the RID report form, 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.

Please contact the RID User Office for any further questions.  

Intellectual property

The user group is entitled to publicise all results of the EU NMI3 supported experiments. (Only exception: 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"

Please contact the RID User Office for any further questions.  

Personal data protection

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.

Eligible States

Users from the Netherlands are eligible to use facilities of the NMI3 institutes located outside the Netherlands only.