Information for Users
Users’ feedback to the host institution
1. Project Summary Report
Upon completion of the access visit users must fill out the Project Summary Report and submit it to the host institution.
2. Lasers4EU User Group Questionnaire
In addition users must complete the Lasers4EU User Group Questionnaire. Users will receive an e-mail with a login key that will provide them with the questionnaire tailored to their proposal.
The purpose of the questionnaire is to collect feedback from users in order to evaluate the Lasers4EU access programme, to provide useful advice to the individual host facilities and to improve the services offered to users in general.
Publications resulting from access to a specific facility
Users have to publish their results within a reasonable time in open access literature. and should acknowledge the contribution of the host facility in any output (i.e. publication, presentations, etc.). It is a contractual obligation to acknowledge EU support in all publications and presentations to which users agree when submitting an application. Please inform the host facility where you carried out your project about any publication of related results to your access project.
Acknowledgement statement:
This project is funded by the EU’s Horizon Europe programme under grant agreement number 101131771 Lasers4EU [access ID*]. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union. The European Union cannot be held responsible for them.”
Open access: Users are obliged to deposit peer-reviewed research articles or final manuscripts in an online repository, allowing for online access at no charge to EU-funded results.
Research data: The underlying research data have to be deposited in a trusted repository with open access, unless this conflicts with legitimate (e.g. commercial) interests or if there are other valid restrictions.
Please note
The following details of completed access projects will be published on the project’s webpage
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the proposal number and title,
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the year of completion,
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the name and affiliation of the Principal Investigator.
Presentation of the results of your access project
Users presenting results from their access project at a scientific meeting or conference are expected to acknowledge the support from Lasers4EU and may use the official Lasers4EU PowerPoint template for their presentation.
Patenting the results
Results of the access project may also be patented. Details should be negotiated on a bilateral basis with the host lab where the experiment has taken place. In view of the EU funding, specific conditions for access apply, e.g.: “Only user groups that are allowed to disseminate the results they have generated under the action may benefit from the access, unless the users are working for SMEs.”
It is important that users publish the results of their access project without compromising the possibility of patenting any results obtained. The European Commission expects participants to examine the potential for patenting and to ensure appropriate protection—covering a suitable period and territorial scope—if the following conditions are met:
(a) the results can reasonably be expected to be commercially or industrially exploited; and
(b) patenting is possible, reasonable, and justified under the circumstances.
When deciding on protection, the beneficiary must consider its own legitimate interests and the legitimate interests (especially commercial) of the other beneficiaries.
In addition, applications for protection of results (including patent applications) must include the following information:
“The project leading to this application has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement number 101131771 Lasers4EU”.