Program Materials scientists external to ORNL access the SHaRE Collaborative Research Center through the SHaRE Program. All projects involving external users must be approved through the SHaRE Program before access to the SHaRE Collaborative Research Center is possible. Foreign national participants must be approved through standard DOE clearance processes. The SHaRE Proposal Both new and renewal proposals should be submitted using the SHaRE proposal form .
Program is accomplished by letter proposals from principal investigators.
These briefly describe the proposed collaborative research and are submitted for review and approval by the SHaRE Executive Committee. Proposed research projects must be approved before participation is possible. Approval is based upon scientific excellence of the proposal, relevance to DOE goals, and when applicable, the previous SHaRE-sponsored research record of the proposers. All SHaRE projects are reviewed annually. Exploratory research projects are permitted to test the feasibility of a research idea.