ITINERIS – ACTRIS Pilot Access Call

ITINERIS is excited to announce the launch of the ITINERIS – ACTRIS Pilot Access Call for proposals to access to offer enhanced access to Europe’s most advanced facilities for observation and exploration of the atmosphere to users, as part of our ongoing commitment to support innovative research in the environmental sciences.

This pilot call aims to facilitate access to advanced data, cutting-edge instruments, and services offered by ACTRIS facilities to promote research in the atmospheric domain and also in all other environmental domains with project idea for which atmospheric data is a prerequisite.

We invite proposals for novel and unconventional use of our facilities!

What does ‘access’ cover?

The call is open to:
• Italian users willing to access ACTRIS facilities. and to foreign users willing to access the Italian ACTRIS facilities.
• foreign users interested in accessing the Italian ACTRIS facilities.

Key Information:

• Application deadline: 28st April 2025

• Review: upon submission

• Access period: starting from the approval – to be concluded by 31st July 2025.

• Topic: general call. No topic restriction and researchers from multidisciplinary projects are encouraged to apply.

• Financial support to users: Users will receive a one-off grant after the access successfully completed.
The final amount of the grant will be calculated after the access is completed at the facility and disbursed by the ACTRIS ERIC following the provider’s confirmation of access. The grant is assigned exclusively to individuals, not institutions, and it will be disbursed directly to each user by the ACTRIS ERIC.
Researchers from different disciplines are encouraged to apply.

Proposals should be submitted via the PASS platform (Platform for managing user access to ACTRIS Services), where submission guidelines and full details are available.

We encourage researchers to submit applications early for timely consideration.

For further assistance or inquiries, please contact our team at samu.imaa@cnr.it.

We look forward to receiving your innovative proposals and supporting your research through this exciting opportunity!