Scientific Infrastructures

Inside of Regional Research and Innovation Strategy for Smart Specialization (RIS3) of Castilla y León 2014-2020, the Excellent Science and Technological Leadership Program establishes as a specific objective the increase in scientific quality and the socioeconomic impact of research activity, being aid for the coordinated purchase of scientific equipment that avoids duplication and increases the efficiency of public spending is one of the actions included in the aforementioned Program. In this context, on October 17, 2014, the collaboration agreement was signed between the General Administration of Castilla y León and the public universities of Castilla y León to promote the creation of a network of shared scientific and technological equipment in Castilla y León called Network infrastructures of Castilla y León (INFRARED).

The calls for subsidies for the acquisition of this equipment have the collaboration of the Agency for the Quality of the University System of Castilla y León (ACSUCYL) in the evaluation of the applications submitted.

The evaluation of the applications submitted to the competitive calls for subsidies for the acquisition of shared scientific equipment within the framework of the network of shared scientific-technological equipment in Castilla y León called "Network Infrastructures of Castilla y León (INFRARED)" co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund, is carried out according to this manual:

• Manual de evaluación de proyectos y programas de investigación (574 kbytes)

The calls in which ACSUCyL has collaborated can be consulted in the following file. The evaluation criteria to be applied appear in the calls. The General Directorate of Universities and Research of the Ministry of Education has only requested the Agency to evaluate the criteria related to the "Scientific-technical quality of the research and adequacy of the scientific equipment requested for the execution of said research"

• Convocatorias INFRARED de la Consejería de Educación: resultados e indicadores. (624 kbytes)

ACSUCYL conducts the assessment of research results through the Research Assessment Committee , which is responsible amongst other tasks for:  

• Planning and coordinating the assessment process.

• Designing, approving and publishing the assessment criteria and methods.

• Adopting joint final assessment decisions.

For the development of its functions, the Commission seeks the advice of experts. Each request, in general, is assessed individually by two experts in the requested infrastructure, acting as “blind peers”. Applications can be evaluated by more than two experts, in accordance with the provisions of the  Manual de evaluación de proyectos y programas de investigación (574 kbytes)

The work undertaken by the members of the committee and the experts in the scientific panel is subject to the Agency's Código Ético (556 kbytes) .

• Convocatorias INFRARED de la Consejería de Educación: resultados e indicadores. (624 kbytes)