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Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2024 12:47:23 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] project_apply.md  input from SV

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 docs/getting_started/project_apply.md | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/getting_started/project_apply.md b/docs/getting_started/project_apply.md
index 85b63b65f..59fe118b0 100644
--- a/docs/getting_started/project_apply.md
+++ b/docs/getting_started/project_apply.md
@@ -12,7 +12,33 @@ To use [UPPMAX](../cluster_guides/uppmax.md) resources, one needs:
 - [an active research project](project.md)
 - [an UPPMAX user account](user_account.md)
 
-This page is about applying for an UPPMAX project:
+Your user account is a personal log-in to our systems. Computer resources like CPU-hours and disk storage are allocated to projects.
+
+The workflow is like this:
+
+    - Register in SUPR
+    - Accept SUPR user agreement
+    - Become a member of a project
+    - Apply for an account at UPPMAX (or other resources)
+
+Note that you can only get a user account on a resource if you belong to a project with allocations there!
+
+## SUPR account
+
+???- question "Get a SUPR account"
+
+    -You should visit the national project management platform [SUPR](https://supr.naiss.se/) and [register](https://supr.naiss.se/person/register/) there.
+        - Make sure that you don't already have an account at SUPR. You must not have more than one account in SUPR.
+
+        
+
+???- question "Accept SUPR user agreement"
+
+    - You must accept the user agreement in SUPR, either online or in paper form.
+
+## Applying for an UPPMAX project (PI)
+
+If you are a PI: apply for a project in SUPR.
 
 - [Apply for a Bianca project](project_apply_bianca.md), i.e. a project
   using sensitive data
@@ -22,7 +48,11 @@ This page is about applying for an UPPMAX project:
   i.e. a project for the Swedish Infrastructure for Medical Population-based Life-course and Environmental Research
 - [Other applications](https://www.uu.se/en/centre/uppmax/get-started/create-account-and-apply-for-project/apply-for-projects)
 
-Alternatively, one can [join an existing project](join_existing_project.md).
+## Become a member of a project
+
+If you are not a PI: Apply for membership in a project you want to join in SUPR, Wait for the PI to accept your application. Alternatively, the PI can add you directly.
+
+- [join an existing project](join_existing_project.md).
 
 ???- question "I just got an UPPMAX project, yet I cannot login to UPPMAX?"