Transnational Access Statistics

From April 2019 until the end of July 2020, 110 proposals have been accepted by RADIATE’s Transnational Access program. Of these, 67 proposals have been hands-on and 43 hands-off access.

RADIATE has committed to providing at least 15.800 hours of transnational access during the project’s run time of four years. Up to now, 6288 hours have been allocated to the facilities offering transnational access. Of these, 3175 hours have been delivered.

COVID-19 has caused major delays to the transnational access program due to travel bans and lab shutdowns. Some partners still have no constant access to their facilities and are still working remotely and/or cannot allow visitors to their labs. Since the beginning of the pandemic in Europe in March 2020, we have seen a rise in proposals asking for hands-off access, while already approved hands-on proposals now often being turned into hands-off proposals, where possible.

In total, proposals have been submitted by scientists from 34 countries: Austria, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Uganda, and the United Kingdom.

As an EU Horizon2020 project, RADIATE is committed to providing transnational access predominantly to researchers working in EU countries. Of the 110 accepted proposals, 100 were submitted by researchers in the EU. 42 proposals were submitted by female researchers as the main proposer and 68 by male researchers.