OPEN ACCESS CENTRES

The laboratories, created or renewed implementing valley projects and the laboratories currently dislocated in research and higher education institutions will work on the basis of open access (the resources of laboratories will be accessible for all interested persons from other institutions or business bodies in accordance with the Regulation of Management of Open-Access Centres).

Regulation of Management of Open-Access Centres is applied for the open access centres, which function on the basis of R&D infrastructure, created while implementing Joint Research Programmes, National Integrated Programmes and/or is acquired from other support of the EU structural funds and/or the budget of the Republic of Lithuania.  Regulation of Management of Open-Access Centres defines the following aspects:

• principles of formation, management and the manner of use of the resources;
• equipment use time ratio between separate subjects, maintenance costs, and the accumulation and investment of the funds received for the use of resources;
• indicators of activity effectiveness;
• principles of intellectual property protection;
• provisions on solving the disputes.