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RIANA

RIANA: Research Infrastructure Access in Nanoscience & Nanotechnology

 

Duration: 03/2024-02/2028

 

Specific eligibility: proposals about long-term impact, and challenge-driven research in nanotechnology

 

Proposal submission platform: ARIA

https://riana-project.eu/

Start date: 01/03/2024 | End date: 29/02/2028 

RIANA-Research Infrastructure Access in Nanoscience & Nanotechnology is an European Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Horizon Europe (HORIZON-INFRA-2023-SERV-01).

This project has received funding from the EU Framework Programme Horizon Europe under grant agreement nº 101130652. And supports curiosity-driven research in nanoscience with open research questions for long-term impact, and challenge-driven research in nanotechnology with targeted research questions for short- and mid-term impact.

At the core of the RIANA consortium is the ARIE network (Analytical Research Infrastructures in Europe) that comprises European networks with a focus on large scale research infrastructures.

Coordinated by DESY, RIANA joins 7 European networks of top-level RIs to cover the most advanced techniques relevant to nanofabrication, processing/synthesis, characterization, and analysis as well as simulation capacity. Highly customized and efficient access to 69 infrastructures is coordinated via a single-entry point and enabled through comprehensive scientific and innovation service by senior scientists, facility experts, and highly trained junior scientists. This project encompasses both curiosity-driven research in nanoscience with open research questions for long-term impact, and challenge-driven research in nanotechnology with targeted research questions for short- and mid-term impact.

This core of RIANA is aligned to attract experienced and new users from academia or industry making their promising ideas a success and pushing them to higher TRL. Being flexible to upcoming emergent scientific topics and needs, together with stakeholders from the Nano-community, RIANA implements the opportunity to offer access to additional infrastructures in, and even outside of Europe and to adapt the scientific service via additionally specialized junior scientists. Based on the four years of experience, the RIANA consortium will develop a roadmap for the future of nanoscience and nanotechnology at European RIs.

User’s proposals are accepted based on a “continuous call” concept. Applications for pre-proposals are not mandatory but are highly encouraged.

Submit your proposal via the dedicated web page.

 

ELIGIBILITY

TNA is provided in two types:

-Physical access with users visiting the infrastructure in person, receiving the service “hands-on”.

-Remote access that may include, e.g., the analysis of mail-in samples, remote access to a high-performance computing infrastructure, without users physically visiting the infrastructure.

To be eligible for TNA, the following criteria must be fulfilled:

  1. The users must be allowed and willing to disseminate the results they have generated.
  2. The PI and the majority of the team must work in a country other than the country where the infrastructure is located, unless access is provided by an international organisation such as an ERIC.
  3. The User Feedback Form has been completed and submitted for any previous project of the Users.

RIANA promotes the EU Gender Equality Strategy towards a gender-equal Europe. Gender equality in scientific research and specifically encourages applications from women. The prerequisite to scientific and societal prosperity is the creation of an atmosphere of acceptance and trust, embracing all differences stemming from personal ways of life or personal living situations, ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation, ideologies, biographies, religion, beliefs, disability, age, appearance, and many other aspects.

 

PROPOSAL REQUIREMENT

Proposals that are supported by RIANA need to address a topic in the fields of nanoscience and nanotechnology. This criterion is checked by the Chairs of the Proposal Review Panel as follows:

RIANA refers to “nanoobjects” whenever the structures of an object that determine its key properties are smaller than 100 nm in at least one dimension. Consequently, “nanoscience” is the science of nanoobjects, and “nanotechnology” is the technology exploiting nanoobjects.

 

PRIORITY CRITERIA

NA

 

EVALUATION

All proposals will be checked by the RIANA TNA Coordinator. For each proposal, the selected infrastructures will either be confirmed by the TNA Coordinator, or different infrastructures will be assigned. This may happen due to scientific considerations or available instrument time. If the assigned infrastructures are different from the chosen ones, this amendment will be done in the proposal directly by the Project Administrator, and the Applicant will be notified.

The technical feasibility of each proposal will be assessed by scientists at the assigned infrastructures.

All proposals will be assigned three Reviewers from RIANA program’s Proposal Review Panel and given an overall grade.

An email will be sent to notify the Users of the outcome of their submission:

-Accepted – the proposal has been granted TNA access.

-Rejected – the proposal has not been granted TNA access. Comments explaining the reasons for rejection are provided.

Once a proposal is accepted, the beamline manager will contact the team to verify details of access and define the scheduling of the experiment. Access should be completed within a maximum of 18 months after acceptance.

 

REIMBURSEMENT RULES

RIANA program reimburses travel and subsistence to user groups who fit the eligibility criteria. A maximum of two researchers per experiment/visit are entitled up to a maximum of 600 EUR reimbursement each, based on a calculated reimbursement of:

-up to 300 EUR per user for travel costs

-up to 50 EUR per night and per user for accommodation up to a maximum of 6 nights

Meals are also covered as long as the overall reimbursement amount does not exceed the 600 EUR limitation.

 

REIMBURSEMENT PROCEDURE

Users are entitled to reimbursement after submission of the User Feedback Form in the access portal. To receive reimbursement, Users should fill in the reimbursement form available on the website and send a signed version in PDF format together with invoices and receipts of travel and accommodation expenses to reimbursement@riana-project.eu.

 

AFTER ACCESS / REPORTING REQUIREMENTS

As recipient of financial support by the EU Commission via SOLEIL you must meet the EU reporting requirements:

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  • Users are obliged to acknowledge support from NFFA-Europe Pilot project by the following text string that needs to be literally included into the publication:

“Funded by the European Union as part of the Horizon Europe call HORIZON-INFRA-2023-SERV-01 under grant agreement number 101130652. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union and the European Union cannot be held responsible for them.”

 

  • Acknowledge SOLEIL and please include the following statements:

"Parts of this research were carried out at "beamline " at SOLEIL. We would like to thank N.N. for assistance during the experiment (if not co-author of the publication)"

 

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