Concept for user of the TUM Pilot Plant for Industrial Biotechnology

In general, each user will provide and finance qualified personnel, consumables (in particular media, buffer solutions, and supplements), and analytics independently. The personnel of the research center will provide fully functional research equipment and supervise its operation. Furthermore, instructions for utilization of the equipment and the technical installations will be provided.

Utilization of the equipment of the Pilot Plant is free for scientists of TUM in case their research project is funded by TUM budgetary funds or by public funding organizations (DFG, BMBF, or others) with exemption of the costs for project-specific consumables and project-specific Pilot Plant personnel.

In case of research projects of TUM scientists being funded by public funding organizations (DFG, BMBF, or others), the required financial resources for performing the research projects at the TUM Pilot Plant for Industrial Biotechnology have generally to be accounted for prior to an application.

In case of research projects being subcontracted work for private enterprises or being performed by private enterprises or other external users directly, full costs calculated according to valid EU law will be charged.

In case of projects being planned, the technical manager of the TUM-Pilot Plant for Industrial Biotechnology will provide respective offers. Calculation of costs will be performed following the mutual specifications of operational procedures and scope of the planned work.

Technical Director: Simon Gregg