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Yes. The external researchers or research groups are not beneficiaries of the grant. So it doesn’t matter if they host any other researchers (in the frame of other projects or programmes) at their facility. Important for getting access to a facility of th...
There is no formal prescription. The overview of funded I3-projects in FP6 from the Commission shows an average EC contribution of 10 mio Euro divided into:Management   6 % (5-10%)Networking      20 % (15-20%)Access                        29 % (23-35%)Joi...
No. There is no overall minimum or maximum time for Transnational Access. Limitation is that Community financial support should never exceed 20% of the annual operating costs of the infrastructure to prevent it from becoming dependent on the Community con...
 Joint research activities may include: higher performance methodologies and protocols, higher performance instrumentation, including the testing of components, subsystems, materials, techniques and dedicated software;integration of installations and infr...
Networking activities may include: joint management and pooling of distributed resources;strengthening of virtual research communities;development of common standards, protocols and interoperability, benchmarking;development and maintenance of common data...
Service activities may include: scientific services freely available through communication networks (e.g. databases available via Internet);procurement and upgrading communication infrastructure, network operation and end-to-end services;grid infrastructu...
Integrated Infrastructure Initiatives (I3) should combine, in a closely co-ordinated manner: (i) Networking activities, (ii) Trans-national access and/or service activities and (ii) Joint research activities. All three categories of activities are mandato...
To provide trans-national access to researchers or research teams to one or more infrastructures among those operated by participants. These access activities should be implemented in a coordinated way such as to improve the overall services available to ...