Sustainability plan for trans-national access beyond EXCITE

The sustainability plan for trans-national access beyond EXCITE which will be report containging an evaluation of significant funding opportunities that will help sustain, entirely or in part, the access facilities or the future research infrastructure. Included in this will be fact-finding from national, commercial and EU funders, including shared funding schemes and identification of any barriers for users or funders that might prevent specific funding being made available for access activities. Resulting from this we will propose an Engagement Plan which will suggest ways of engaging with funders at various levels and scope the growth potential available outside of the EU, to identify sources for new funding associated with a global user community or specially themed global research programmes. Finally, we will evaluate possibilities to stimulate spinoff companies and SMEs to commercially use the infrastructures, where possible in coordination with national and regional efforts.