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Eligibility criteria

Transnational Access (TA) or Remote Access (RA) will be provided to selected ‘user groups’. User groups are teams of one or more researchers (users) led by a ‘user group leader’, also understood as principal investigator (PI) or chief scientist. A user group eligible for TA must meet the following strict criteria:

  1. Affiliation/Country of work:

1.1 The user group leader (PI) and the majority of the users must work in a country other than the country(ies) where the installation is located (unless access is provided by an international organisation, the Joint Research Centre (JRC), an ERIC or similar legal entity).
1.2 The user group leader and the designated leader of the team conducting the fieldwork (also understood as chief/co-chief scientist) must be affiliated to the same institution.

  1. International collaboration: The proposals for the AQUARIUS TA calls must involve at least three partners from three different countries.
  2. Dissemination: Only user groups that are allowed to disseminate the results and knowledge they have generated in the context of the access may benefit from the TA, unless they are working for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
  3. Expertise: The user group leader (and designated chief scientist, if applicable) must have the appropriate scientific/ technical expertise to conduct proposed work.
  4. European Mission Ocean 2030 scientific challenges: User groups must make it clear how the proposed work contributes to selected priorities/challenges of the TA calls and the objectives of the European Mission Ocean 2030 according to AQUARIUS Deliverable 3.1 – AQUARIUS call priority report and D6.1 – AQUARIUS Data gaps report.
  5. Access limit: Access for user groups with a majority of users not working in a EU Member State or Horizon Europe associated country is limited to 20% of the total amount of units of access provided by AQUARIUS. I.e., at least 80% of the total units of access provided by the AQUARIUS project will be granted to parties with the majority of users working in a EU Member State or Horizon Europe associated country.