GENERAL INFORMATION
The main goal of the EUSMI Transnational Access programme is to make available the most advanced infrastructures for the benefit of the whole Soft Matter research community. The spectrum of infrastructure encompasses pioneering spectroscopy, scattering and imaging technique, state-of-the-art synthesis facilities and expertise, as well as one of Europe's most powerful supercomputers for numerical simulation.
EUSMI provides the community of soft-matter researchers with an open-access infrastructure as a platform to support and extend their research, covering characterization, synthesis, and modeling. A fraction of 20% of the resources may be allocated to non-European research groups.
The use of EUSMI installations is offered free of charge and financial contribution to related travel and accommodation costs is granted to successful applications from academia and from industry, thanks to financial support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 731019 (EUSMI). Details of the application process and eligibility criteria are given in the terms of reference.
Important note:
If, after a successful proposal, you publish results obtained through access to EUSMI facilities, please be aware that they have to be published open access and the underlying research data need to be made accessible for the public as well.
Costs for open access publications can be covered in parts by EUSMI
We encourage managing and publishing your research data through the EUSMI data repository platform (https://drp.eusmi-h2020.eu) from where it can be upload to Zenodo, making it searchable and citable thanks to the assignment of a DOI. Instructions for the procedure are outlined here: https://drp.eusmi-h2020.eu/index.php/s/eNZXBzt9z4JQjwD
The EUSMI Transnational Access Activities are grouped into five work packages (WP), which provide the soft matter research community with effective and convenient access to 15 key research infrastructures that are distributed over 8 EU member states and Switzerland.
