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| MC2 ACCESS » Eligibility | ||
| Eligibility of User Groups For activities aimed at providing transnational access, the access provider (MC2ACCESS) shall provide access free of charge to selected user groups, including all the infrastructural, logistical, technological and scientific support (including training courses for users) that is normally provided to external researchers given access to the infrastructure. A User group means a research team of one or more researchers given access to the infrastructure under the project. Each user group is led by a user group leader. To be eligible to benefit from access to the infrastructure under the contract, a user group must satisfy the following two conditions: - both the user group leader and the majority of the users must come from Member States or Associated States;see list a below - both the user group leader and the majority of the users must come from a country other than Sweden. Only user groups that are entitled to disseminate the knowledge they have generated under the project are eligible to benefit from access to the infrastructure under the contract. The sole exception to this rule shall be user groups from an SME that wish to use the infrastructure for the first time. Prospective user groups requesting access shall be required by the MC2ACCESS to submit in writing a description of the work that they wish to carry out and the names, nationalities and home institutions of the researchers expected to take part. Before selecting user groups requiring access exceeding 3 months, the access provider shall seek prior written approval of the Commission. The access provider shall ensure that the users have the same rights and obligations in regard to confidentiality as referred to for the access provider in Article II.9. In addition to the provisions of Article II.9, the access provider shall require the users to keep confidential any document, information, knowledge, pre-existing know-how or other documents communicated to them in relation to the project. Access rights MC2ACCESS shall ensure that the users enjoy, on a royalty-free basis, access rights to the pre-existing know-how of the access provider and to the knowledge, if that pre-existing know-how or knowledge is needed to carry out their own work under the project. Publicity The access provider shall ensure that the users have the same rights and obligations in regard to publicity as referred to for the access provider in Article II.12. In particular, the access provider shall, throughout the duration of the project, take any appropriate measure to ensure that, in their publications, users make suitable publicity to the access provided to them under the contract by the European Community, in conformity with Article II.12. In addition to the information referred to in paragraph 2 of Article II.12, the Commission shall be authorised to publish, in whatever form and on or by whatever medium, including the Internet, the list of the users. Incompatible or restrictive commitments MC2ACCESS shall inform, as soon as possible, the users of any restriction which might substantially affect the granting of access rights, as the case may be. The Infrastructure must maintain, on a regular basis and in accordance with its own usual accounting principles, appropriate documentation to support and justify the amount of access reported; this documentation shall include records of the names, nationalities, and home institutions of users within the user groups, as well as the nature and quantity of access provided to them. SME stands for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises: - those have fewer than 250 employees (full-time equivalent) and - have either an annual turnover not exceeding Euro 40 million or an annual balance-sheet total not exceeding Euro 27 million. For a full description of the SME definition, see website >>, Here you can find the model for a self-declaration OJ C 118 of 20.5.2003, p. 5 and including corrigendum OJ C 156 of 4.7.2003, p. 14 which should be completed by the enterprises themselves to avoid the uncertainties in the interpretation of the definition and will reduce the administrative burden. EU Member States; Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Republic of Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Slovakia, Slovenia and United Kingdom. States associated to the 6th framework programme; EU candidate countries: Turkey and 5 non-candidate countries: Iceland, Liechtenstein, Israel, Norway and Switzerland. |
