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Bring a New User to Beamtime

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If you bring a user with no experience of the chosen large-scale facility to beamtime, RELAX can fund the cost of the trip and accommodation costs up to a maximum of 15,000 SEK. The new user has to be an employee of KTH at the time.

If your team is going to a beamtime and you bring a new user with you to the experiment. A new user can be someone that never has been to a large-scale facility. It can also be someone that has done e.g. synchrotron work but joins a neutron experiment. The new user has to be an employee of KTH at the time of the beamtime. RELAX can fund the cost of the trip up to max 15'000 SEK but we reserve the right to reduce the funding as found appropriate. The beamtime has to take place after the time of application.

Application

To apply, send an e-mail to RELAX responsible Martin Månsson with the subject line "RELAX Funding": condmat@kth.se containing the following information:

  1. Specify that this is an application for funding "Bring a New User to Beamtime"
  2. Write a very short explanation to who is the new user and why such person should join the beamtime
  3. Write a short explanation about the project and to which source/beamline you will go
  4. Attach the approval letter/e-mail and proposal to the e-mail
  5. Write how much funding you request and motivate it with a short but descriptive budget

After the beamtime you are requested to make a short report summarizing the success of the beamtime describing also the new user's experience, ideally with some nice photos from the experiment. The report will be published on the RELAX homepage. Only after such report is received the funding will be transferred to the PI of the project.

Special Case

If your new user is an undergraduate student (BSc or MSc student), RELAX can cover both travel and accommodation cost up to max 25'000 SEK. Please then specify this very clearly in the description of the new user. Such application comes with the extra requirement that the student joining the experiment needs to be connected also to an activity that awards study credits (ECTS), .e.g that the student is signed up for a MSc thesis work or as part of a project course (e.g. SK2003 or similar). In the final report of the project course or the MSc thesis an acknowledgement to RELAX should be added. Finally, at the end of the project/thesis, a link to (or an electronic copy of) the final report/thesis should also be sent to RELAX (in addition to the shorter report mentioned above).