E-RIHS PP D3.5 Scenarios for in-kind contributions and criteria for their evaluation

The complete assessment, the impact and cost/benefit ratio of the activities of E-RIHS, depends on the knowledge of the overall size of the resources made available by the E-RIHS Members through the appointed national nodes as well as on the value of the resource specifically committed to the activities of E-RIHS. In a broad sense, in-kind contributions represent the capital of European Research Infrastructure Consortia, whose Members, in the proper sense, are the Governments of the involved States.

The goal of E-RIHS, the European Research Infrastructure for Heritage Science, is to grow and strengthen a creative, European-wide framework for supporting frontier research in heritage science. It will do so by offering access to expertise, data and technologies through a standardized approach based on different modes of services organized in four platforms:

• ARCHLAB (access to heritage archives and collections);
• DIGILAB (remote access to data and tools for heritage research);
• FIXLAB (access to large-scale facilities and advanced laboratories;
• MOLAB (collections of mobile instruments enabling in-situ diagnostics).

The scope of D3.4 is represented by the identification of the main foreseeable types of in-kind contributions as well as by the definition of a methodology for the accounting of in-kind resources, taking into-account the specific needs of E-RIHS. According to the working plan defined in the Grant Agreement, at M24 a preliminary report has been delivered. This document represents the starting point of the present document, and it is in line with the following project WPs:

• Task 2.1 Governance structure of E-RIHS

• Task 3.1 Finance and budget

• Task 4.2 Statutes; task 4.3 Internal rules and procedures

• Task 6.1 Integrating E-RIHS in European funding instruments and joint programming initiatives

• Task 8.3 Catalogue of E-RIHS resources and services

All the activities described in the present document have been also performed on the basis of the following timetable:

• Definition of the working plan (2nd semester 2017) and its presentation during the project meetings.

• Submission of a questionnaire to the E-RIHS partner. (1st semester 2018)