CALL

ACCESS to NANBIOSIS

NANBIOSIS infrastructures and services are available to all members of the national and international scientific community (from public or private sectors), who can access them under two modalities of access: “Competitive Open Access” or “Access on Demand”. NANBIOSIS declares its firm commitment to offer at least 20% of the capacity of its essential facilities in Competitive Open Access modality.

Competitive Open Access.

To obtain Competitive Open Access it is necessary to participate in Access Calls which take place twice a year.

Applications approved under this modality will get shortlisted following an evaluation process which is carried out by the NANBIOSIS Access Committee.

Apart from the prioritized access, proposals admited in Competitive Open Access modality shall obtain 5% of discount in the rates of the services implicated, when the invoises are issued by CIBER, CCMIJU or Ibima Plataforma Bionand.

Access on Demand.

Access application forms submitted after the Open Access Call deadlines or not granted in Compeititive Open Access mode will be considered as Access on Demand. In these accesses the rates published in NANBIOSIS website for the different services and Units are applied  (https://www.nanbiosis.es/platform-units/).

Feasibility

In order for a request of access to be approved in any of both modalities, it is necessary to ensure that the required Unit/s can technically undertake the requested services. Applicants can first consult with the Unit/s involved  and then submit the order request, or, if they are not sure or do not know about the needed Unit/s, they can explain that circumstance int he application form and the Coordinator of NANBIOSIS will contact with the Unit/s that may solve the problem and also with the applicant, if more information is needed.

Evaluation

The approval of access in this modality requires adequate justification that the access proposal complies with sufficient scientific-technical quality and singularity.

The applications will be approved and prioritized, or not, based on the scientific-technical quality and singularity criteria. In this sense, the proposals received that are part of R&D&I projects financed by a competitive call from an international or national funding agency will be deemed to meet the required quality and will obtain the higest punctuation, their access to the ICTS in this modality will be conditioned by the score obtained in the evaluation and their position on the priority list.

If the existence of a competitively financed overarching project is not demonstrated, applicants can justify the scientific-technical quality or uniqueness of their proposal and get shortlisted based on one or more of the remaining criteria in the Application Form.

The Access Application Form, “Order Request”, includes sections related to the evaluation criteria for the consideration of the Access Committee to establish the priority of the accesses approved in each call.

It is recommended to fill out all the different sections of the application form “Order Request” and select and explain the concurrence of the different criteria to facilitate the evaluation process.

Based on the individual scores obtained in the evaluation, a Prioritation List of the applications with approved open access will be drawn up, by the Access Committee grouped by essential facilities, being:  

• Proposals accepted on Competitive Open Access.
• Proposal on hold for being considered Competitive Open Access. Applications shorlisted after the proposals accepted on Competitive Open Assess mode that will be prioritized after them, according to the score obtained in the evaluation process, and that may be considered in Open and Compeititive Access mode and get the corresponding discount, in the event that the pervious application are cancelled till covering the 20%of the Unit capacity in Open and Compeititive Access mode
• Proposals accepted as Access on Demand.
• Proposals discarded because of lack of feasibility.

Resolution of the calls and publication

After the calls are closed, the applications will be evaluated by the Access Committee according to the Access Protocol who will issue a repor and the prioritization results will be published in the NANBIOSIS website in 15 days. The Units proposed in the applications form will contact the selected applicants to schedule the services according to their service requests.

Service Delivery

The execution of the accesses approved  will be carried out wduring the time till the next call, except for the access of a longer duration, following the times asigned by each Unit (according the priorization list in the case of Competitive Open Access mode or agreed upon the Unit after the prioritized access is covered)

Year 2025

• 1st competitive call Results of the call

Next call for Competitive and Open Access  will be open in June

Applications for Access “on demand” can be submitted at any time. Services requested could be provided after the granted competitive access