Access to ICTS users

The Singular Scientific and Technical Infrastructures are infrastructures that have unique facilities that are offered as a service to the entire national and international scientific and technological community.

The ICTS offers a percentage of openness of the capacity of its essential services under Competitive Open Access for use by researchers from the public and private sector, national and international, with the support of the technical and administrative staff of the ICTS. Access to the use of the infrastructure is regulated by a public "Access Protocol" that describes the mechanism and criteria for access to the infrastructure. Open Competitive Access is characterized in that the quality of the R&D activities to be developed in the infrastructures must be contrasted and that requests for access are prioritized according to objective criteria.

The costs associated with the accesses are paid by the users (normally from the aid that finances the R+D+I projects they develop, in particular they are eligible expenses in the calls of the AEI), or by the infrastructure itself in those thematic areas in which it is established.