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ACCESS RULES

The FEDERICA project is dedicated to research on the "Internet of the future". Compliance to this objective is the main criteria for the prioritization of a proposal. On the other hand, the scientific merit of a proposal is not normally explicitly included in the evaluation criteria.
In general, the infrastructure will be available to both the academic and private sector, but due to its own status within FP7, research projects under the FIRE initiative will be preferred.

As a general rule, the evaluation process should not prevent proposals to be accepted when a minimal set of requirements are met and resources for the requested timeframe are available. However, the UPB reserves the right to reassess a proposal and possibly reallocate resources during the lifetime of a project.

Applicants requesting access to the FEDERICA infrastructure need to follow a few rules and guidelines:

Formal requirements

To access FEDERICA a formal procedure has been defined. The list of documents to be exchanged is:

Memorandum of Understanding download DOC 70 KB
Acceptable User Policy download PDF 29 KB
Project Plan downoload DOC 83 KB

Billing by FEDERICA

For the FEDERICA services, normally no costs will be incurred to the user/project (FEDERICA is a partly EC funded project). If exceptional demands are requested and can be made available easily (like excessive support, a lot of co-location space/power, connectivity to networks/users/projects), FEDERICA might charge for some of the costs. The level of these costs will be determined on a case by case basis.