GENERAL ACCESS CONDITIONS        
 

General conditions for the access and use of the infrastructures

Network Users (NU)

It is understood as a Network User the researcher from the Research Units of FCT, from the Universities, the Polytechnic Institutes, the Centers and Laboratories of the National Scientific and Technological System (NSCS) using the facilities of electron microscopy of the Network in the development of their work.

The Network Users are classified as:

  1. Researchers of the Principal Institution hosting the equipment of the RNME Pole and belonging to the Participant Institutions of the project;
  2. Other researchers of the Principal Institution hosting the equipment of the RNME Pole;
  3. Researchers from outside the Principal Institution hosting the equipment of the RNME Pole;
  4. Foreign institutions and companies.

The Network User must:

  1. to be registered, in advance, in the management system of the Network Poles;

  2. to make a reservation for access to equipment (complete and submit the required form to request the various services provided by the Network;

  3. to make use the equipment complying with the operation rules of the host Laboratory; 

  4. to pay for the use of equipment, according to the rates adopted for the equipment and services;

  5. to participate in the quality assessment of the activities of the Pole and the Network, using a specific form which format should be available online;

  6. to publicize and to quote the Network, the Centers, Laboratories and host Universities whenever a communication/publication contains significant results provided by the work done in these infrastructures.