4. Can researchers hosted by an institution that is beneficiary in the ATMO-ACCESS project profit from the Transnational Access (TA) to partner institutions, or are they excluded from TA to project beneficiaries?

H2020 regulations do not explicitly prevent any researcher working for a beneficiary from applying for access under the grant, provided that the requested access is for an infrastructure located in a different country from where the researcher works and that this request is evaluated on the same competitive ground than the other requests (no privileged treatment).

In brief, provision of access to consortium members is possible, but it should not be at all the rule. If a project serves only its consortium, this means that it has not been able to sufficiently open its infrastructures to the concerned scientific community and therefore it has missed one of the main objectives of an IA.