Open Access to JRC Research Infrastructures
The European Commission‘s Joint Research Centre (JRC) gives leading researchers from across Europe and beyond access to its world-class facilities and laboratories, enabling state-of-the-art experimental research, collaboration and capacity building with a European dimension. It does so through the programme for Open access to JRC research infrastructures.
The JRC hosts 56 high-value research infrastructures, most of which are unique at European and international level. Of these, 39 are suitable for opening access to external users in various fields of science: nuclear and radiological, chemistry, biosciences and life sciences, physical sciences and ICT. JRC’s research infrastructures are located in Ispra (Italy), Geel (Belgium), Karlsruhe (Germany) and Petten (The Netherlands). These infrastructures (i.e. laboratories) are fit for experimental work generating data for users’ analyses.
The main objectives of opening access to JRC research infrastructures are to: a) Establish a fair, clear and transparent procedure for giving access of external users to JRC physical research infrastructures; b) Maximise the use to the full potential of JRC physical research infrastructures in collaboration with researchers and industry.
Benefits of opening up JRC research infrastructures are multi-fold: granting access fulfils scientific needs and provides benefit to the research of external users accessing JRC facilities. These benefits can be summarised as follows:
- Access to JRC research infrastructures based on open calls for competitive access allows European users not traditionally engaged with the JRC to have access through a transparent procedure
- Research infrastructures attract talent and stimulate innovation and development. Enabling access to the JRC research infrastructures enhance competitiveness, through pre- and co-normative research, and contributes to bridging the gap from research to industry, e.g., through the setting up of demonstration projects for product validation
- Access of users to JRC research infrastructures contributes to the dissemination of knowledge, improves related methods and skills, provides education and training and fosters collaboration at European level
- Granting access within a structured framework maximises the return on taxpayer funded investment that the JRC has made on its research infrastructures, making them available to external users in view of the limited resources now existing in Europe.
JENET Andreas;
ACOSTA IBORRA Beatriz;
ALDAVE DE LAS HERAS Laura;
AREGBE Yetunde;
BARRERO Josefa;
BOBORIDIS Konstantinos;
BREMER Susanne;
BRUCHHAUSEN Matthias;
CACIUFFO Roberto;
COLINEAU Eric;
COLPO Pascal;
ELOIRDI Rachel;
GILLILAND Douglas;
HEYSE Jan;
HULT Mikael;
LAMPERTI TORNAGHI Marco;
MALKOW Thomas;
MOLINA RUIZ Francisco Javier;
NIEUWELING Carine;
NILSSON Karl-Fredrik;
NOVOTNY Radek;
OBERSTEDT Stephan;
PEGON Pierre;
PERONI Marco;
PFRANG Andreas;
PLOMPEN Arjan;
RUIZ MORENO Ana Maria;
SCHILLEBEECKX Peter;
SCHMIDTLER Stella-Zoë;
SOKULL-KLUETTGEN Birgit;
TSIONIS Georgios;
TUCEK Kamil;
VEGRO Stefania;
TAUCER Fabio;
2021-04-27
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC123699
978-92-76-34190-1 (online),
OP KJ-02-21-482-EN-N (online),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC123699,
10.2760/562421 (online),
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