When editing a proposal for beam time at our facilities, in the first page on "General Proposal Data" besides title and abstract a selection for the “FAIR Experiment Pillar” and the “Collaboration” is required. This information will be used for statistical analyses, and for sorting proposals accordingly within GATE (for proposal administration and for review panels).

FAIR Experiment Pillar

The “FAIR Experiment Pillar” to be given here is one of the four scientific pillars of FAIR:
APPA – Atomic, Plasma Physics and Applications (incl. Materials Research and Biophysics, Radiobiology, and Radiotherapy)
CBM – Compressed Baryonic Matter
NUSTAR – Nuclear Structure, Astrophysics and Reactions
[ PANDA – Physics with High Energy Antiprotons; not included for beamtime proposals yet. ]

For experiments on accelerator physics - generally without relation to a scientific field of one of the pillars - the field “ACC” is to be selected.

Collaboration

The field “Collaboration” in the first form "General proposal data" specifies the scientific FAIR Collaboration, to which the proposal is related topic-wise. No link to collaboration member lists will be done here at this point. The information on FAIR experiment pillars and FAIR collaborations at this point will help sorting of proposals in later analyses.

If in rare cases the proposal is not related to any FAIR collaboration, one can select “none”.

[Later, when indicating all participants of a proposal (= Co-Proposer) in the form "Co-proposer" an entire FAIR sub-collaboration can be selected - if appropriate. Then, members of this sub-collaboration need not be added manually as Co-Proposers (participants) to the proposal. At this later step, a link is created to the member list of that FAIR sub-collaboration.]

Funding

Within "Integrating Activities" the European Commission offers funding for access to research infrastructures in the activity "Transnational Access" (TNA). Applications for support within a TNA activitiy are to be submitted separately from the GATE application for beamtime - for details on TNA schemes in which GSI particpates please refer to the part "Transnational Access to GSI (Integrating Activities)" on the webpage "Funding Opportunities".

For processes in TNA we need to know whether you intend applying for TNA funding, when you request beam time.

Therefore, when applying for beam time in GATE: Please tick the field "Funding requested" in GATE, if you intend applying for one of the TNA funding schemes in which GSI participates.

Note that you need to apply additionally for funding at the respective funding program - a funding application is not done automatically within your beamtime application in GATE!