COVID-19 Activities
The COVID-19 emergency has challenged facilities in an unprecedented way, affecting their operations, performance and procedures. An overview of these disruptions, and the measures put in place by RIs to cope with the COVID-19 outbreak, were collected and published, to allow facilities to share best practices in front of this serious challenge.
COVID-19 Activities
1st Questionnaire: Research Infrastructures’ COVID-19 Research
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, several Research Infrastructures (RIs) have set up specific services, such as rapid or fast track access, to allow researchers to obtain results as soon as possible. To facilitate their use by researchers, CERIC collected the relevant information about the initiatives. The input was made available in a dedicated page and counts more than 50 RI’s COVID-19 services.
2nd Questionnaire: Working practices of analytical facilities during the pandemic
CERIC in collaboration with the ERF, collected the current safety measures of national and pan-European Infrastructures. A report was developed including best practices on safety measures that large analytical facilities can adopt when re-opening operations during the pandemic. It also discusses issues and possible future decisions faced by analytical facilities during crisis.
– 2020. ERF’s Review of Working Practices of Analytical facilities During the Pandemic: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.3795659.
3rd Questionnaire: Evolution of operations at analytical facilities during and post-COVID-19 pandemic
The perspectives and mindsets for Research Infrastructures’ operations during COVID-19 are evolving. To better understand the lasting consequences of the last months, European Research Infrastructures were invited to share their views and experiences. A report was developed highlighting the changes and challenges that 27 analytical facilities faced at the end of October 2020, just before the rise of the second wave, which severely interrupted their activities.
– 2021. Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Working Practices of Analytical Facilities: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.4422963.
To facilitate the research on COVID-19, CERIC had set up a dedicated Fast-Track Access to a selected number of instruments. The dedicated Fast-Track Access allows users to access the selected instruments for research related to the COVID-19, without the necessity to undergo the regular evaluation procedure, and be scheduled within one month from the submission of the proposal, based on the feasibility evaluation performed by the facility.
Read more about it here.