Infrastructure > Evaluationprocess
Proposals for Physical Research Infrastructure Access will be evaluated by a Scientific Selection Panel consists of four external experts and additional VIPERLAB internal experts from the perovskite and/or silicon PV community.
Proposals for Virtual Research Infrastructure Access will be evaluated by the provider or technical support of the specific virtual infrastructure. These are specified under the description of VIPERLAB’s Virtual Research Infrastructure available.
Evaluation criteria & prioterization
The Selection Panel will evaluate and rank user proposal based on the Scientific Case.
User proposals will be granted when the majority of reviewing experts and recommend the execution of the user proposal.
In case a proposal for access to a particular infrastructure is not granted due to:
- lack of scientific originality or importance: users will be encouraged to resubmit a revised proposal for the next evaluation round based on feedback from the scientific selection panel
- a particular infrastructure being over-requested: users will be considered and recommended to be granted access to equivalent VIPERLAB infrastructures or put in the “waiting list” for proposals to be considered for the next round of experiment time
If infrastructures are over-requested and several proposals are deemed of similar scientific quality, priority will be given to users or user groups who:
- have not previously used the infrastructure requested (new users)
- are working in countries where no equivalent research infrastructure exist
Academic and SME users are eligible for travel reimbursements (see details below).
