The Horizon Europe Research Infrastructures NCP network (RICH) database on transnational and virtual access to research infrastructures contains all ongoing Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe projects that open their research infrastructures to transnational/virtual researchers/users.

These are the projects funded under the Integrating Activities part of the Research Infrastructures work programme, some of the ESFRI projects (if access is granted to all researchers no matter if their country is member of the ESFRI RI) and some e-infrastructures (provided services are addressed to researchers and not to RIs or other e-infra).

For each project, a short description of the transnational/virtual activities is given as well as the deadline to submit a proposal to an open call and a link to the project website and the TA&VA access webpage. The projects can be filtered by scientific domain and type of access (transnational or virtual). The database is updated every 3 months.

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What is Transnational Access?

• Do you want to run experiments in the best European laboratories?
• Are you interested in making analyses using the best research equipment?
• Do you care about accurate measurements?
• Are you looking for access to unique collections of specimens or documents?
• Would you like to run experiments on sophisticated, world-class equipment?

Transnational Access ensures free of charge access to the best European research infrastructures. Apart from the cost of research itself, travel, accommodation and subsistence costs may be reimbursed by the budget of the project. This opportunity is open to all European researchers and to some extent to researchers from non-EU countries.

What is Virtual Access?

Virtual Access ensures free of charge access to e-infrastructure, namely to:

• Sophisticated computer services;
• Powerful computers, networks, grids, repositories, databanks;
• Safely storing large quantities of scientific data;
• Participation in virtual research communities;
• World-class operational communication and computing infrastructure to facilitate scientific research.