ReDIB's unique infrastructures are available to the entire scientific community, national and international, from the public and private sector, who can access them under the modality of Competitive Open Access (AAC) or Demand Access (AoD).
Subsidized access mechanism to essential ReDIB facilities, which will be granted to applicants based on objective criteria of merit and free competition among the different AAC applications received in each call (see "REDIB-02-PDA Access protocol" in the Documentation section of this website).
ReDIB offers at least 20% of the total capacity of its essential infrastructures under this modality. The AAC needs to be approved and prioritized by the ReDIB Access Committee (see "Composition of the access committee" in the Documentation section of this website), which will carry out an evaluation of the application and the applicant research team based on scientific-technical quality criteria, as well as criteria of timeliness and peremptoriness of the requested access (see "REDIB-01-RCA Rules of Procedure of the Access Committee" in the Documentation section of this website).
It is considered that all AAC applications that come from R+D projects financed in competitive competition by an administration or funding agency of European or national R+D, meet the minimum quality required, and, consequently, their AAC is automatically approved, without prejudice to the prioritization established for their realization by the Access Committee, based on the quality and timeliness criteria referred to in the previous paragraph.
Access modality without subsidy, in which the approved rates for the different services of the nodes are applied. It does not require evaluation mechanisms that ensure merit and free competition among applicants, but only study of its technical feasibility in the node involved.
APPLICATIONS PROCESSING
Competitive Open Access (AAC).
Applications for this type of access can only be submitted within the deadlines established in the AAC calls opened by ReDIB, always through its website.
On-demand access (AaD).
Applications for this type of access can be submitted at any time, through the ReDIB website or directly at theReDIB node involved.
Viability
For an application for both AAC and AaD to be approved, it is necessary to ensure that ReDIB can technically undertake the requested experimentation. Therefore, it is recommended that applicants consult previously about the technical feasibility of their Proposal, contacting the ReDIB node involved.
Approval
AaD applications only require for approval the evaluation of their technical feasibility by the ReDIB node involved.
On the other hand, applications for AAC must adequately justify that the proposal meets minimum criteria of scientific-technical quality. If the proposal is part of a Research Project funded in competitive calls by a European or national R+D administration or agency, it will be understood that the requested access meets the required quality, so it will be automatically approved, without prejudice to the fact that said access will be subject to the prioritization mentioned in the following paragraph. Otherwise, if no data is provided on the existence of a competitively funded parent project, it will be mandatory for the applicant to complete Annex to the Application Form, to fully justify the scientific-technical quality of the proposal, so that, based on this, the ReDIB Access Committee can approve the AAC application.
Prioritization
The AAC Application Form includes sections related to the criteria that will be evaluated by the ReDIB Access Committee to establish the priority of each of the accesses approved in each AAC call.
It is recommended that the AAC applicant complete the different sections of the form, mostly or in full, and respond with well-founded and weighty arguments, to achieve the highest final grade, and therefore a high prioritization of approved access.
The following flowcharts summarize the processing of applications in both modalities, AAC and AaD.
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