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So many small projects each drawing a quota slice, each approved by the same institutional contact. The 1.5 PB Helsinki pool is the real ceiling.","limits":[{"kind":"write-gated","value":"approval — two gates, one of them human","source":"https://www.fairdata.fi/en/ida-quotas-by-organisation/"}],"limits_note":"per-object-cap: not published. Retention: 'Data can be stored for a duration at least as long as the allocation grant period' (DeiC analogue); IDA requires an active CSC project and 'The validity of your CSC account can be extended by logging in to CSC's services'. request-rate: not published. Gate: CSC account (Haka/Virtu) + institutional quota owner approval — two gates, one of them human.","identity_cost":{"kind":"institution","detail":"storage is granted to a CSC project, and the grant is approved by the IDA contact person of the home organisation named as the project's Storage Quota Owner, usually within a few working days. A CSC user account is created through the Finnish Haka or Virtu identity federations, or by applying to the CSC service desk as a collaborator of a Finnish research group or as a user whose organisation holds a contract with CSC. A CSC project can have a single member. No card and no phone number is asked for; the multi-factor setup asks for an authenticator app on a mobile device.","country":null},"reliability_note":"Second gate is a human approver at your home organisation; a lapsed CSC account or project takes the storage with it.","confidence":"reported","confidence_note":null,"evidence":[{"url":"https://www.fairdata.fi/en/ida-quotas-by-organisation/","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"'Last updated: 2025-02-28'; 'University of Helsinki | 1500', 'Aalto University | 480', 'University of Oulu | 465' (terabytes)"},{"url":"https://www.fairdata.fi/en/ida/apply-for-ida-storage-space/","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"captured 2026-06-08: 'A CSC project is a group of users, meaning it does not have to correspond to a specific research project, and it can have only one member'; quota chosen 'by entering a number only in gibibytes (GiB)'; 'approved ... usually within a few working days'"},{"url":"https://docs.csc.fi/accounts/billing/","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"'The use of Fairdata IDA doesn't consume Billing Units.'"},{"url":"https://www.fairdata.fi/en/ida/apply-for-ida-storage-space/","date":"2026-11-01","proved":"the grant is a human approval by the home organisation, not a self-service allocation","capture":"sha256:c099992dbc44d9ea929afb7f6f0ebdc5d89323b3e1db3261e54675cf643acbfd","quote":"You will receive an email confirmation after the organisation’s IDA contact person has approved your application (usually within a few working days)."},{"url":"https://www.fairdata.fi/en/ida-quotas-by-organisation/","date":"2026-11-01","proved":"the published national pool the record quotes is unchanged: Helsinki 1500 TB, Aalto 480 TB","capture":"sha256:c7943235ba948377d4dd63c11d896f3e0fb5d44e2d32280db2295800ecf454ab","quote":"| University | Quota in terabytes |\n| --- | --- |\n| Aalto University | 480 |\n| University of Helsinki | 1500 |"}],"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","verified_at":"2026-11-01T18:05:17.593Z","notes":"No flat per-user number; the quota is a slice of your organisation's allocation. 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