The rights for international use may be granted on the following grounds

• The research must be public.

• The project manager (principal investigator) should be working in Finland and he has to have the right to use CSC's resources (e.g., a professor in a Finnish university).
• The funding of the researcher working abroad, to whom the right for international use is being applied for, comes from an organization equivalent to a Finnish university or polytechnic.
  
• The project manager should have a leading computational role in the research project.
• CSC's services should be acknowledged in the publications of the project, and a considerable number of the authors should be affiliated to a Finnish university or research institute.
• The results (knowledge, experience, publications) of the international use should benefit research groups in Finland.

International use may be restricted by the following

• Researcher's nationality (the procurement contracts of computers may limit the use of some nationalities)
• Software licenses (no right to use from abroad)
• Limited amount of resources at CSC