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Details of access and collaboration
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Users of SOLEIL’s state-of-the-art equipment and added-value services benefit from varied types of access and collaboration adapted to their problems, operating limits, and capabilities.
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 “Public” mode use of SOLEIL equipment
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The person requesting access prepares a project that is examined by experts from 7 thematic committees. The selection, which is necessary due to the fact that requests for access greatly outweigh what is available, is made on the basis of the scientific interest (innovativeness, major advance in knowledge, etc.) of the project. Acceptance of the project grants free access to SOLEIL’s equipment for a time of 4 to 9 months, with the obligation to rapidly publish the experimental results. This mode of access is particularly requested by public laboratories, but is also accessible to industrialists.
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“Billed” mode use of SOLEIL equipment
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 Private full-price access:
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SOLEIL guarantees confidentiality and rapid access in return for a financial contribution proportional to the duration of equipment use, with degression according to the number of units of time used annually (one unit of time equals 8 hours). This procedure is ideally used by industrial or service companies, but it is also accessible to other requestors such as public laboratories or social actors (hospitals, museums, etc.).
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Administrative procedures:
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- Technical validation of analysis to be carried out:
Upon receipt of the user’s request, SOLEIL analyzes the technical feasibility and conditions of execution of the analysis (equipment involved, duration of experiment, prior planning, etc). SOLEIL’s Industrial Relations department then establishes, in conjunction with the beam and laboratory managers involved, a technical proposal that is submitted to the requestor.
- Creation of an estimate:
Upon validation of the SOLEIL technical proposal by the requestor, the Industrial Relations department submits a complete service offer describing the technical and financial conditions of the service to be provided.
After acceptance by the requestor of SOLEIL’s service offer, the Industrial Relations department transmits information allowing the requestor to begin administrative procedures on the SOLEIL web server.
- Completion of administrative forms:
At the time of the initial request to use SOLEIL equipment, the requestor must open a computer account with SOLEIL by filling out an identification form.
SOLEIL will then send a login name and password that are necessary for registration on the administrative and logistic informational web server. The login name and password are reusable for any subsequent request. The requestor indicates the chosen type of access (private or approved; public if applicable) and gains access via his login name and password to the corresponding form, which he must fill out. He must also register the logistic information on the SOLEIL web server of the identities and planned arrival and departure dates of the participants in the project. After registering this information, the SOLEIL Industrial Relations department will send the principal requestor a form of declaration of responsibility, which must be duly filled out, signed, and returned before the beginning of analysis.
- Billing:
After the experiments are conducted, a bill is send to the requestor by the Industrial Relations department.
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Direct overseeing of measurements by SOLEIL
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When measurements are taken directly by SOLEIL, billing is calculated on the basis of equipment time used and time spent by engineers, technicians, and researchers.
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“A la carte” analytical services
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In this case, billing is calculated according to: - Volume and type of services requested (preparation, non-synchrotron pre-characterization, measurements, formatting of results, etc.)
- Type of measurements taken (biocrystallography, tomography, metrology, etc.)
- Time of use of equipment and time spent by engineers, technicians, and researchers of SOLEIL
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Long-term partnerships
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Long-term collaborations established between SOLEIL and different types of partners (public laboratories, industrial parties, technological businesses, social actors, etc.) are based on common use of means and are governed by agreements, usually multi-year ones. The involvement of a given partner may occur in various forms: the making available of staff or equipment, temporary financing of personnel (thesis students, post-doctoral students, etc.), financing of all or part of the construction and/or operation of new equipment, contribution to the operation of an already existing piece of equipment, etc. The construction and/or operation of a lightbeam financed at least partly by an industrial party or a group of companies, for private or semi-private use, is, for example, encouraged at SOLEIL. This partnership approach initiated by SOLEIL has the goal of assisting in the emergence of applied projects for which various types of economic activities and perspectives are envisioned, such as: - The creation of innovative products or procedures
- The development of new applications
- The implementation of innovative services for industrial users of the synchrotron beam center, as part of the creation or implantation of specialized technological interfaces by applicative sectors (biotechnologies, ecoindustries, micronanotechnologies, optics, etc.). These interfaces play the role of “conveyor belt” between SOLEIL personnel and users of the synchrotron beam in these applicative sectors.
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