An In-Kind Contribution (“IKC”) is a non-cash contribution made a Member of a research infrastructure (or on behalf of a Member) to the research infrastructure and/or to the user community served by the research infrastructure.

The revised European Charter for Access to Research Infrastructures provides a set of non-regulatory principles and guidelines to help research infrastructures define their access policies

Service Level Agreements (SLAs) play an important role in the governance and functioning of distributed research infrastructures.