1.The purpose of this Memorandum of Understanding is to establish an interim framework to facilitate a cooperative exchange of technical requirements, science and technology information, and promote leveraged program development between the Parties.
The Parties will endeavor to support the exchange of personnel and instruments as appropriate to ongoing projects and to collaborate in research and development projects of common interest; moreover, they will facilitate the exchange of students and scientific instruments in the fields of common interest.
The present Memorandum of Understanding is intended to improve the performance goals associated with developing critical technologies and their implementation for next-generation light sources and upgrades/enhancements to existing light source facilities in the following specific fields of common interest: Physics; Laser Physics; Accelerator Technology, Mathematics, Information Technology
2.The two Parties may exchange documents, drawings, software and information related to the above fields of common interest within the provisions set in the present Memorandum of Understanding, in particular under article 6 (Property rights)and article 9 (Non Disclosure).
3.The Parties will nominate an individual each to act as a contact person for coordinating activities based on the present Memorandum of Understanding.
4.Any specific contractual obligation exceeding the general obligations specified in this Memorandum of Understanding shall be clearly established and agreed upon on a case-by-case basis through a written agreement, hereinafter referred to as “Specific Formal Agreement”, between the Parties.
5.In particular, any specific project to be jointly undertaken will require execution of a Specific Formal Agreement defining the scientific and/or technical goals of the collaboration, a detailed milestone schedule, and the responsibilities, commitments and contributions (both financial and in-kind) of each Party. Moreover, the Specific Formal Agreement will regulate the intellectual property rights concerning both the existing knowledge and the results of the collaboration for each specific project.
6.Either Party hereto still is free to independently enter into cooperation with other parties within the same field of research and technology, in compliance with the rules set in articles 6 (Property rights) and 9 (Non Disclosure).
