Hotel Guidelines
Research Hotel guidelines provide you with more detailed and formal information on project research in collaboration with any of the NPC Research Hotels. You will find guidelines on the following subjects:
Project submission and selection
When you or your research group wishes to submit a project proposal, please contact and consult the Research Hotel manager. The Research Hotel manager submits completed project planning forms to the NPC Executive Board. All projects have to be approved by the NPC Executive Board. Proposals will be evaluated and selected on:
- scientific quality
- fit within the goals of the NPC
- fit within the expertise of the respective NPC Research Hotel
- feasibility within the indicated project time
- quality of the visiting group
Finances
Project costs will be related to the visiting group you are part of and calculated as below. If your visiting group belongs to:
- the NPC or another NGI Centre of Excellence: consumables only, no overhead
- a public research institutes: consumables, NPC personnel and equipment, no overhead
- the industry: consumables, NPC personnel, equipment and overhead
A standard bench fee is accounted of 1,500 Euro/month. Commercial partners
will be charged a 50% overhead for the activities of the NPC Research Hotel.
All financial transactions between the visiting group and the NPC Hotel
are under responsibility of the local Research Hotel. Possible losses or
benefits are at the risk of the institute hosting the NPC Hotel. Benefits have
to be invested in the Hotel, for e.g. maintenance and new
developments.
Responsibilities, IP
and publications
- NPC Research Hotel visitors are the guests of the institute hosting the NPC Hotel. At any time, visitors are subject to the local regulations.
- For external visitors: intellectual property can be applied for and handled according to the existing regulations of the institutes hosting the NPC Hotel.
- For visitors from other parts of the NPC or any other initiatives financed by NGI: transfer of IP and licensing is possible under conditions of the NGI regulations (Netherlands Genomics Initiative).
- All materials from the NPC Hotel remain property of the institute hosting the NPC Hotel. Visitors will not transfer any of these materials to third parties without written permission by the NPC Hotel manager. This does not refer to materials brought into the project by the visiting group.
- All publications including data from the NPC Hotel project must be reviewed and accepted by the NPC Hotel management before submission for publication. The principal investigators of the NPC Hotel have the right to be listed as co-author of these publications.
- In case of any publication or transfer of methods or technologies, the NPC will be named in the affiliations and NGI as (co-)sponsor in the acknowledgements.
Liability
The NPC Research Hotel will perform research to the best of its ability. It does not guarantee the usefulness of the results obtained, nor the consequences of the application thereof. The principal indemnifies the NPC Research Hotel against all claims by third parties in relation to the results of the research.
Reports
Visitors and Hotel personnel will co-operate in producing reports on the outcomes of the Hotel projects for NPC monitoring purposes.
If you have any questions regarding the hotel guidelines, please contact your Reseach Hotel Manager or the NPC office.