Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro of INFN

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European Commission of the European Communities

INTEGRATED INFRASTRUCTURE INITIATIVE
Transnational Access to Research Infrastructures

Contract number 506065

EUROpean Nuclear Structure research" (acronym: "EURONS")

The Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro (LNL) of Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Italy, have been financed by the European Commission to give access to researchers from 01/01/2005 to 31/12/2008, within the Integrated Intrastructures Initiative "EUROpean Nuclear Structure research" (acronym: "EURONS").

This contract includes the opportunity for European research groups performing or planning a research activity at LNL, to Apply for EC funded access to LNL to cover subsistence and travel expenses. The only eligible research teams are those carrying out their research activity in the EU Member States, other than Italy, or in the Associated States (see table below). The status of eligibility has been fixed by the EU and is available at the official UE website.

Who can apply

The research teams must be entitled to disseminate or arrange dissemination of the knowledge generated under the project carried out at the Infrastructure. Furthermore, their interest should lie in one of the following LNL Facilities:

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How to apply for UE Eurons Funds

1. Access to LNL

Before coming to LNL, you must register as LNL user, by sending the "request for access" form available at: http://www.lnl.infn.it/~lnldir/utenti/accessi_2005/lnl_access.html

The registration will allow you to attend the Labs and their facilities, included the guest-house (see).

Activity with ionizing risk

If your experiment foresees ionizing risk, in the "request for permission" form you must state that you are authorized to work, as an exposed worker, with ionizing radiation risk at LNL and you must bring the related documents with you.

2. Application for UE funds

LNL is open to national and international user groups.
To apply for access to the accelerator and experimental facilities within UE Eurons funds, a project proposal has to be submitted by e-mail as PDF attachment to tari@lnl.infn.it to the attention of the Director of LNL:

Dr. Gabriele Puglierin
LNL-INFN, Viale dell'Università, 2
I-35020, Legnaro (Padova)

download the application form .DOC

More information can be obtained from the TARI secretarial staff, e-mail: tari@lnl.infn.it

After leaving the LNL

1. Publications:
   
   

• ensure that all publications directly linked to the work performed in the framework of the supported project include the following acknowledgement: "This work was supported by the European Community FP6 - Structuring the ERA - Integrated Infrastructure Initiative- contract EURONS n° RII3-CT-2004-506065”
  
  
• keep the LNL informed of all the publications referred above by sending the references to tari@lnl.infn.it

2. Group Leader's duties: each group leader (spokesperson or co-spokesperson)  of a project supported by the UE Programme is requested to:
   
   

• Fill in the on-line questionnaire, at the end of their project.

The questionnaire is requested by EC. The User Project Acronym requested in the form refers to the PAC or USP number of the experiment which is given you each time by the LNL-TARI Secretarial Staff. The number of the EC Contract that financed the user group's access to the research infrastructure is: 506065 (EURONS).

• Fill in the objectives & achievements form, at the end of their project and send it to tari@lnl.infn.it.

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PAC and USP Committees

The proposals are reviewed by the international Programme Advisory Committee, the LNL PAC (for proposals pertaining to Nuclear Physics experiments) and USP Committee (for proposals concerning interdisciplinary projects at AN 2000 and CN accelerators).
If a user group in addition applies for EU support under one of the Integrated Infrastructure Initiatives of FP6, a separate funding application has to be submitted by e-mail as PDF attachment to tari@lnl.infn.it. This is reviewed by the PAC and USP Evaluation Committees.
The LNL PAC presently has 7 members (5 external), most of whom coming from international universities or research institutes.
The USP has as its members 5 researchers 3 external and two internal members, chosen on the basis of their internationally recognized experience.
In a first round the PAC and USP Committees evaluate all the submitted proposals on the basis of scientific merit and makes recommendations concerning the beam time to be allocated to each project. In a second step, the Committees then review the funding applications. The panels evaluate the time and the amount of travel requested for setting up and executing the experiment and decide on the man-days and travel refund to be allocated to the researchers involved. USP duties include also the monitoring of the progress of the approved projects and of the TARI/Eurons contract as a whole. At the completion of a project, the USP also examines the final reports, which, along with the published results, represent the main "deliverables" of the Eurons contract.

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Call for Proposals

Proposals must be submitted via web by using the LNL on-line submission forms available within the LNL accelerators web pages at:
http://www.lnl.infn.it/accelerators/accelerators.html.
Proposals must describe the research project that the group wishes to carry out at the LNL, including the number of researchers involved, the duration of the project and the research facility of interest.
If a user group in addition applies for EU support under Eurons Contract, a separate funding application (see above: "2. Application for UE funds") has to be submitted.

Submitted proposals will be evaluated by the USP and PAC committees on the basis of scientific merit and interest for the European Community. The results will be communicated through e-mail to Group Leaders.

Deadlines

USP and PAC Committes tipically meet twice a year, in March and in July.

Calls for proposals will be published in the LNL webpage. Moreover, user groups will be informed by e-mail about the deadline for submission. The required application forms for beam time are available from the LNL accelerators web pages at:

http://www.lnl.infn.it/accelerators/accelerators.html

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