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ACCENT is a Network of Excellence funded by EC, FP6, PRIORITY 1.1.6.3 Global Change and Ecosystems ACCENT is a Network of Excellence funded by EC, FP6, PRIORITY 1.1.6.3 Global Change and Ecosystems

Call for Infrastructures

The ACCENT activity  Access to Infrastructures opened the

to identify and describe the available research infrastructures in Europe:

  • Field sites (co-ordinator: P. Laj, CNRS)
  • Laboratories (co-ordinator: J. Hjorth, JRC)
  • Research aircraft (co-ordinator: J.-L. Brenguier, Météo-France)

The access to infrastructures initiative is jointly managed by a steering committee (U. Baltensperger (PSI), K. Torseth (NILU), V. Ulevicius (IPL)) and a group of advisory members (B. Buchmann (EMPA), I. Barnes (BUW ), H. Pawlowska (FUW)).

There are two calls for access per year to facilitate access to these research infrastructures by providing financial support for access of users and mobility of experts. Check the open call schedule for more access information.

Research facilities interested in collaborating with ACCENT are requested to provide a comprehensive description of the infrastructure you may offer access to by submitting an online application form. The selection criteria for each research facility are indicated below. Accepted infrastructures are presented through the ACCENT web-portal for field sites, laboratory and aircraft facilities.

Field Sites
Candidate sites will be selected according to objective critieria including:

  • their location in a representative environment of the European continent;
  • the high level of implemented instrumentation for atmospheric chemistry (gas and particulate), atmospheric physics and meterorology;
  • the compliance with QA/QC protocols for measurements performed outside of regular monitoring networks;
  • the access to data generated within monitoring and research activities;
  • the quality of services proposed at the sites to ensure that working conditions are adapted to specific representative environments.

Laboratories
Candidate laboratories should represent not commonly available facilites for:

  • laboratory measurements with relevance to atmospheric chemistry,
  • set-ups for studies of uptake or chemical reactions on surface or in droplets and of elementary gas phase radical reactions;
  • ab initio calculations of kinetic parameters;
  • simulations of chemical processes in chambers;
  • kinetic modelling applied to anaylses of laboratory experiments.

Research Aircraft
Aircraft operators interested in collaborating with ACCENT will be identified and selected through EUFAR (European Fleet for Airborne Research). Click here for more information.

Download the application guidelines
Download a PDF version of the application submission form for preparation
Access the Online Submission Form

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