Simpler to make research infrastructures accessible
There is now a handbook available to facilitate making research infrastructures accessible outside the host organisation. The image shows work with Ancient DNA, a research infrastructure that supplies analyses of ancient DNA, among other things. Photo: Mikael Wallerstedt, Uppsala University.
There is now a handbook available to facilitate making research infrastructures accessible outside the host organisation.
Research infrastructures at Swedish higher education institutions are of course strategically important for Swedish research and innovation. That is why it is important that the infrastructures we have in Sweden can be accessed from outside the host organisation.
Even so, there has been some uncertainty at times about how to interpret the rules that govern making research infrastructures accessible externally.
Guide with checklist
For this reason, a handbook has been produced as part of the Swedish collaboration project for access to laboratory infrastructure (the SESAM project), funded by Vinnova. The project participants are Lund University, Stockholm University, Uppsala University and the research institute RISE.
The purpose of the handbook is to provide a guide for higher education institutions in making their research infrastructures accessible externally. The handbook’s main target groups are directors, finance officers, legal counsel, management and administrative support functions.
The handbook takes up a range of factors that are important for making Sweden’s research infrastructures accessible outside their host organisation, including:
- management and governance
- Insurance matters
- offering, pricing and competition
- contracts, secrecy and intellectual property rights.
There is also a short checklist that can be used as a starting point in making infrastructures accessible.
Anders Berndt