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Second Transnational Access call is now open! Submit your proposal starting from February 1st, 2022.
Deadline: May 15th, 2022

The TNA programme aims at financially and logistically supporting the access (physical, remote and virtual) of external users to the IS_MIRRI21 partners’ research facilities across Europe to carry out their research projects.

The Transnational access includes:

  • Technical and scientific support
  • Administrative and logistic support
  • Access to the products, services and facilities offered in the IS_MIRRI21 TNA catalogue
  • Hands-on training needed to access the facilities

TNA funding does not include:

  • Non-standard consumables
  • Expenses required before or after the TNA visit

The TNA programme sponsors researchers’ 

  • Access to the IS_MIRRI21 partners' installations (microbial resources, facilities, laboratiories, standard consumables, chemicals and disposables)
  • Travel expenses (one round trip/person)
  • Subsistence (meals and accommodation for up to 30 days, weekends included).
  • Shipping costs of project materials from the IS_MIRRI21 partner’s facility to the home institutions.

Modality of access

The TNA programme provides three means of access: physical, remote, and virtual access. 

Physical access can be defined as the hands-on access of any user, i.e., the users physically visit the Access Provider and use its laboratories and equipment.

Virtual access can be defined as any access through communication networks in which resources can be simultaneously accessed by an unlimited number of users. This is the typical case of the access to data and on-line applications.

Remote access can be defined as the non-physical access to the services of the Access Provider. There are two types of remote access:

  • Set of experiments carried out at the Access Provider’s location, but the user is not physically present at the installations (e.g., sample analysis and processing).
  • Shipping of microbial strains/biological materials, based on the users’ requests.

The Access Officer is the main contact person to discuss the details about the TNA application.

Access Officer
Adriana Chiarelli
access@mirri.org