Aquaculture infrastructures access

31/01/2025

Deadline: 31 January 2025

The European project AQUAEXCEL 3.0, under its Transnational Access (TNA) programme, offers access to 40 unique research infrastructures, with experimental costs, travel and subsistence covered by the project. The facilities available cover the entire range of aquaculture production systems (recirculation, flowthrough, cage, hatchery and pond systems), environments (freshwater and marine, cold, temperate and warm water), scales (small, medium and industrial scale), culture species (fish, shellfish and seaweeds), and fields of expertise (nutrition, physiology, health and welfare, genetics, engineering, monitoring and management technologies).

General description

The complete list of available infrastructure is here. Most of proposals will involve only one research infrastructure, being possible to select additional installations. Prior to application, the Infrastructure Manager should be contacted for further details and to discuss proposal requirements.

The proposals may be conducted by only one person or a team. The lead applicant is the person responsible for all project communications and who will be participating directly in the work and visiting the research installation (unless the proposal is for remote access only). The lead applicant does not need to be the most senior person involved in the project. A co-applicant may also apply to visit the research installation if justified by the experimental work and if budget is available. Co-applicant may be a co-worker or a senior adviser/supervisor or technical assistant. Additional applicants can be identified as being involved in the project, but not involved in the mobility. If either the lead applicant or co-applicant is a student, you need to ensure that supervision arrangements are fully explained in the project description.

Transnational Access can be provided in the following ways: (1) in person (‘hands-on’), provided to selected users that visit the installation, or (2) remote, through the provision to selected users of remote scientific services. Examples of remote access include the provision of reference materials or samples (e.g., shipping of a virus strain); performing a remote sample analysis or sample deposition; remote access to experimental aquaria or high-performance computing facilities.

Duration

Unless special provisions have been made by the Installation, projects can only be funded up to 3 months in duration (90 days). If the access is remote only, please enter the expected start and end date for the work at the host installation.

Budget

Travel costs are normally reimbursed by the research infrastructure providing the most economic means of travel is used. You should give an estimate to help the installation with budgeting.

Accommodation will be provided in accommodation owned by the research infrastructure or in nearby guest houses (bed and breakfast) or hotels. Full details of accommodation provisions and expense allowances are available from the individual research infrastructures.

You may also mention other expected expenses and whether other funding is available to cover some or all of these. Users of the Research Infrastructures will need to make their own travel insurance arrangements. Additional information, including the application template and guidelines can be found here.