Tap

Tap

A Transnational Access Platform (TAP) is a mechanism, primarily funded by projects (often European Union-backed, like those under Horizon Europe or its predecessors), that provides researchers, scientists, and sometimes industry professionals with free-of-charge access to cutting-edge research infrastructures (RIs), facilities, equipment, expertise, and data across different countries.

Tap

Overview

Designed to address

Designed to address the need for a robust service that streamlines the management of both transnational access (TA) and remote access (RA)

Intuitive design

An intuitive design that keeps applicants’ journey simple and secure, while offering powerful reporting tools for involved organizations. Editors gain full visibility and control, seamlessly monitoring applications from start to finish.

Flexible

Flexible, built upon a robust workflow process, compliant to standards, capable to accommodate customization and exceptions.

Features

Overseeing the entire lifecycle of a call, from opening and grant issuance to project reporting. It includes support from experts with years of experience in call management, who will help to address the needs and focal points.

Section designed for document sharing. Inside is possible to upload all needed documentations: applicant guidelines for application, document templates for cv, recommendation letters, scientific projects, scientific reports, evaluation guidelines for evaluators, etc. For every document a specific level of confidentiality can be setted, making the document public, private (available only for editor) or available for a specific category/ies of users (i.e. available only for evaluators, only for applicant).

Refined over the years through standard protocols and guidelines, this system allows for the comparison and standardization of diverse scheduling methods for all available access across numerous domains and geographical regions.

Providing precise, customizable reports compliant with European standards and following best practices within the research community, ensuring an interdisciplinary approach.

Crucial feature TAP is users registration, managing and roles/permission allocation. The user entity provider Keycloak, an Open Source identity and access management, allows on TAP secure services for user authentication and login across multiple applications with the same Keycloak account. For example, other applications can use the centralized identity of TAP using the openId protocol, oauth2 or SAML. This allows the same credentials to be used across multiple software platforms, eliminating the need to repeatedly manage login, registration, or password recovery. Additionally, enterprise systems such as LDAP can be integrated as an account source, further enhancing the seamless user experience.

For TAP’s customization and development coordinated by experts, specialized in designing and user-based integrated web application, able to support both innovation and customization. The aim is to ensure the technical management of the calls for proposals, including the launch of calls, proposal submission, logistic evaluation, and follow-up (e.g., to ensure the reporting and answers to feedback questionnaires are provided).

For development of EU compliant flow and tackle the challenge to identify specific needs. Experts will provide guidance for developing the scientific framework, define the evaluation criteria for selecting applications, perform the scientific evaluation of submitted proposals, and assess the contributions of projects towards the challenges, to adapt the subsequent calls for proposals accordingly.

Overseeing the entire lifecycle of a call, from opening and grant issuance to project reporting. It includes support from experts with years of experience in call management, who will help to address the needs and focal points.

Section designed for document sharing. Inside is possible to upload all needed documentations: applicant guidelines for application, document templates for cv, recommendation letters, scientific projects, scientific reports, evaluation guidelines for evaluators, etc. For every document a specific level of confidentiality can be setted, making the document public, private (available only for editor) or available for a specific category/ies of users (i.e. available only for evaluators, only for applicant).

Refined over the years through standard protocols and guidelines, this system allows for the comparison and standardization of diverse scheduling methods for all available access across numerous domains and geographical regions.

Providing precise, customizable reports compliant with European standards and following best practices within the research community, ensuring an interdisciplinary approach.

Crucial feature TAP is users registration, managing and roles/permission allocation. The user entity provider Keycloak, an Open Source identity and access management, allows on TAP secure services for user authentication and login across multiple applications with the same Keycloak account. For example, other applications can use the centralized identity of TAP using the openId protocol, oauth2 or SAML. This allows the same credentials to be used across multiple software platforms, eliminating the need to repeatedly manage login, registration, or password recovery. Additionally, enterprise systems such as LDAP can be integrated as an account source, further enhancing the seamless user experience.

For TAP’s customization and development coordinated by experts, specialized in designing and user-based integrated web application, able to support both innovation and customization. The aim is to ensure the technical management of the calls for proposals, including the launch of calls, proposal submission, logistic evaluation, and follow-up (e.g., to ensure the reporting and answers to feedback questionnaires are provided).

For development of EU compliant flow and tackle the challenge to identify specific needs. Experts will provide guidance for developing the scientific framework, define the evaluation criteria for selecting applications, perform the scientific evaluation of submitted proposals, and assess the contributions of projects towards the challenges, to adapt the subsequent calls for proposals accordingly.