# Core Facilities

**Source**: https://www.ugent.be/en/research/corefacilities
**Parent**: https://www.ugent.be/en/programmes

## Ghent University's approach

A Core Facility promotes cooperation between researchers, both internally and externally, and elaborates a strategy for the renewal and/or expansion of the research infrastructure within the Core Facility.

Its use is open to all researchers within the Core Facility and/or other users within and outside Ghent University.

Ghent University provides a central recognition procedure and co-funding from the Special Research Fund (see intranet).

[Overview of our Core Facilities](https://research.ugent.be/web/svo/en?type=core-facility)

## Using the Core Facilities

Reservations of instruments and services at Core Facilities are arranged via the **Core Facility Management Software (CFMS)**. To do so, one must first be linked as a user to a CFMS lab account.

For external users, CFMS lab accounts are in the name of the applicable external organisation.

- If it concerns a new external organisation that is not yet a client of one of the Ghent University Core Facilities, the corresponding CFMS lab account must first be created. Only then one can be added as a new external user to the CFMS lab account. For the creation of new external CFMS lab accounts and the addition of new external users, please e-mail [cfms@ugent.be](mailto:cfms@ugent.be). Mention which Core Facility you wish to access.
- If one is already registered as a user in CFMS and as such linked to the designated CFMS lab account and the Core Facility one wishes to use, one can log in immediately via [cfms.ugent.be](http://cfms.ugent.be).
- Information for internal users: see intranet

## Contact

[corefacilities@ugent.be](mailto:corefacilities@ugent.be)