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Researcher Mobility and Careers:
Update on Recent EU Policy Initiatives
Dr. Dagmar MeyerEuropean Commission
DG Research and Innovation Unit B2 - “Skills”
Seminar “How to attract and retain excellent
researchers?” Oslo, 19 January 2011
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Europe 2020 and the Innovation Union
• COM Communication (2010) “Europe 2020 - A strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth” Big Societal Challenges - Climate, Energy, Health,
Security, Resource Efficiency… Need an integrated and strategic approach 7 Flagship Initiatives: Innovation Union, Agenda for
New Skills and Jobs, Digital Agenda, Youth on the Move, etc.
• COM Communication (2010) “Europe 2020 Flagship Initiative - Innovation Union” Innovation overarching policy objective Main obstacles: unfavorable framework
conditions & fragmentation of effort
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The Innovation UnionCommitments (I)
• Over 30 Action Points (“Commitments”) proposing initiatives in key areas, including: #1: By end 2011, MS to have strategies in
place to train enough researchers to meet their national R&D targets and to promote attractive employment conditions in public research institutions.
#2: In 2011, COM will support an independent multi-dimensional international ranking system allowing the best performing European universities to be identified. Further steps to be proposed in 2011 in a Communication on modernisation of higher education.
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The Innovation UnionCommitments (II)
#4: Completing the ERA: In 2012, COM will propose an ERA framework and supporting measures to remove obstacles to mobility and cross-border cooperation (to be in force by end 2014), addressing among others:
- quality of doctoral training, attractive employment conditions and gender balance in research careers;
- mobility of researchers across countries and sectors, including through open recruitment in public research institutions and comparable research career structures and by facilitating the creation of European supplementary pension funds.
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The Innovation UnionCommitments (III)
#30: By 2012, EU and MSs to put into place integrated policies - to ensure that leading academics,
researchers and innovators reside and work in Europe and
- to attract a sufficient number of highly skilled third country nationals to stay in Europe.
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Five dossiers related to these Commitments:
• Charter & Code – HR Strategy for Researchers• Supplementary Pensions for Researchers• Quality of Doctoral Training• European Framework for Research Careers• Monitoring of Progress
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Charter & Code – HR Strategy for Researchers
• Continuation and intensification of ongoing activities
• Operational support and evaluation of impact through external contractor
• Preparations for an ERA framework and supporting measures (IU Commitment #4) related to “Researchers” topic strongly based on “Charter and Code logic”
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Supplementary Pensions for Researchers
• Feasibility Study on setting up of pan-European Pension Funds for Researchers (Report 2010)
• Support for the creation of such funds (pilot schemes) by employers of researchers (e.g. Universities)
• Info Days 2011 – Guidance for setting up such schemes
More broadly:• Expert Group on Social Security and
Supplementary Pensions for mobile researchers (Report 2010)
• Green Paper on Pensions (2011) addressing mobility as a key issue
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Quality of Doctoral Training
• Work on Doctoral Training coordinated by ERA Steering Group Human Resources and Mobility (WG “Skills” with Stakeholder involvement).
• Aim: Coherent set of Principles for Doctoral Training (including adherence to Principles of Charter & Code, critical mass, “triple I”: international, innovative, intersectoral)
• Based on mapping exercise of existing practice (to be completed within next two months), followed by a feasibility study
• Possible take-up in future EU and MS funding schemes (FP8, LLL, Structural Funds…? Pilots in FP7?)
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European Framework for Research Careers
• Work coordinated by SGHRM WG “Skills” • Aim: Provide researcher competency
classification independent of a particular career path or sector
• Expected impact: facilitate communication across sectors and countries of competencies that a researcher has and an employer expects
• Benchmarking tool for career management within institutions
• Voluntary transparency tool to improve comparability of career structures
• Consultation ongoing – feedback requested by end of February 2011
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Monitoring of Progress
• Steering Group Report on implementation of the EPR (2009/update 2010 ongoing)
• EPR Monitoring Tender, including:Annual Integrated Reports on the
Researcher Profession in Europe (2011 – 2013);
Assessment of implementation and impact of the “Scientific Visa Package” (2011)
Support to and monitoring of HR Strategy implementation (2011 – 2013); and
Support to and monitoring of the implementation of pan-European Pension funds (2011 – 2013)
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Thank you for your attention!
dagmar.meyer@ec.europa.eu
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