Proposal Submission Deadline
for
NEXT CALL – November 15th 2020
+++ With temporary signs of alleviation of the COVID-19 crisis across Europe during summer, all EMFL sites had resumed user operation. To facilitate the handling of all proposals and to provide maximum clarity to all users in this regard, the Board of Directors decided to revert to the regular policy that proposals will remain valid for one year. Users with older proposals are asked to resubmit them, including those granted in the 119 and 219 calls, which could not be executed due to the COVID-19 crisis. +++
CALL 1 Submission Deadline
15th May Each Year
CALL 2 Submission Deadline
15th November Each Year
Progress Report Submission
2 Months after the end of the Experiment
Proposal Application Procedure.
THE EMFL PROVIDES ACCESS TO THE HIGHEST CONTINUOUS AND PULSED FIELDS IN EUROPE. ACCESS TO ONE OR MORE OF THE INFRASTRUCTURES WILL BE GIVEN FOR RESEARCH IN HIGH MAGNETIC FIELDS, PROVIDED THAT THE RESEARCH PROPOSAL IS RATED BY THE SELECTION COMMITTEE.
TWICE A YEAR (DEADLINES MAY AND NOVEMBER 15TH) A CALL FOR PROPOSALS IS LAUNCHED, INVITING PROPOSALS FOR RESEARCH REQUIRING ACCESS TO ONE OF THE LARGE INSTALLATIONS FOR HIGH MAGNETIC FIELDS OF EMFL.
BEFORE SUBMITTING A PROPOSAL
You are requested to carefully read the PROPOSAL GUIDELINES. They contain essential informations for your application.
Users are strongly advised to contact the facility in order to prepare a better proposal or to investigate the feasibility of the work and possibly identify your local contact. Access implies the use of the installation, the use of all available auxiliary equipment and (if necessary) support by local staff.
PROPOSAL EVALUATION
PROPOSALS RATED A WILL BE EXECUTED
FOR PROPOSALS CLASSIFIED B, THE FACILITY HAS THE FREEDOM TO PRIORITIZE ACCESS WITHIN ITS POSSIBILITIES
APPLICATIONS RATED C ARE REJECTED
The ranking is made on the same basis for all applications including those submitted by the in-house scientists.
Selection Committee
The task of the EMFL selection committee (SelCom) is to ensure that from the proposed experiments only those are performed in the EMFL facilities that are of excellent scientific quality and clearly benefit from the access to a high field facility.
The Selection Committee evaluates the scientific proposals on the following three criteria:
1. Scientific quality and originality of the proposal
2. Necessity for the use of the infrastructure
3. Track record and past performance of the user group.
The EMFL Selection Committee covers the five thematic categories to which proposals can be submitted to:
1. Applied Superconductors
2. Magnetism
3. Metals and Superconductors
4. Semiconductors
5. Soft Matter and Magnetoscience
THE SELECTION COMMITTEE CONSISTS OF 18 MEMBERS, CHAIRED BY JOCHEN WOSNITZA
Online Submission: Writing a good proposal
We advise you NOT TO SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL AT THE LAST MINUTE in order to avoid an overload of the system, which may delay the submission of your proposal.
It is strongly recommended to contact the infrastructure first, to fine-tune the proposal, to investigate the feasibility of the work, and, when possible, identify your local contact by choosing your experiment.