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1 ess x a eu / u e a. p o.eu c e / :/ http EURAXESS Reseaches in Motion is the gateway to attactive eseach caees in Euope and to a pool of wold-class eseach talent. By suppoting the mobility of eseaches, EURAXESS assists in establishing Euope as an aea of excellence in scientific eseach. ch a e S S es E f X A ae o R U E c pe g o n i u Tak t in E n tale :// http 883 Bochue A5 GENE ss venis.indd 1-2.e a op u ec.e ss axe u u/e 17/12/10 10:53

2 talent in Euope the Euopean Union and additional paticipating counties ae actively woking togethe to eliminate obstacles to the fee movement of knowledge by making the Euopean labou maket moe open and competitive fo eseaches. The aim is to offe moe favouable caee stuctues and geate tanspaency, and to tackle administative and legal baies including those elated to social secuity and pension ights. The success of EURAXESS is stongly elated to coopeation with all counties aound Euope and eseaches all ove the wold. This collaboation will be continued with full commitment and empathy. Máie Geoghegan-Quinn Commissione fo Reseach and Innovation Reseach and innovation ae essential fo building a competitive and sustainable Euopean economy and society. Euope values its eseaches, and is fimly committed to etaining, developing and attacting eseach talent. By identifying human capital development as fundamental to smat, sustainable and inclusive gowth, the Euope 2020 stategy places education and eseach at the cente of ou effots towads secuing Euope s futue economic well-being. EURAXESS Reseaches in Motion is an integal pat of this endeavou. This tuly pan-euopean initiative bings togethe the Euopean Commission and 36 counties to povide a wealth of infomation on eseach caees acoss Euope. It offes pesonalised assistance to eseaches moving within, leaving, o etuning to Euope, as well as infomation on ights and obligations of eseaches, thei employes and fundes. All of this infomation can be accessed at: Bochue A5 GENE ss venis.indd /12/10 10:53

3 talent in Euope JOBS EURAXESS Jobs Reseaches can post and edit thei CV on-line and look fo positions and funding oppotunities advetised. Companies and eseach oganisations can post job vacancies and seach the database fo potential candidates to ecuit. Any employe, be it a eseach institute, a majo company, an SME o a univesity can upload job vacancies. All positions ae genuine, and the sevice is fee of chage both fo eseaches and fo employes. Funding oganisations can equally advetise thei fellowships and gants fo fee. To date nealy eseach oganisations and univesities, funding povides and companies (including many SMEs) ae egisteed on EURAXESS Jobs. Nealy eseaches have egisteed, allowing them to seach fo new job oppotunities aound Euope. Moe than of them have made thei CV accessible to potential employes. The CV and jobs databases ae egulaly veified and updated. EURAXESS Jobs: Something vey good about science is that it is a tuly intenational caee. Baoness Susan Geenfield Diecto of the Institute fo the Futue of the Mind, Pofesso of Phamacology at Oxfod Univesity EURAXESS Jobs is a stess-fee ecuitment tool fo eseaches and thei employes fom acoss Euope. EURAXESS Jobs offes a constantly updated database of job vacancies, fellowships and gants fo eseaches with diffeent backgounds and at diffeent caee stages. The website is complemented by the national EURAXESS potals of all patne counties poviding a wealth of additional infomation on eseach jobs and funding oppotunities in those counties. 883 Bochue A5 GENE ss venis.indd /12/10 10:53

4 Sevices is a netwok of ove 200 centes located in 36 Euopean counties. These centes assist eseaches and thei families when moving to, o living in, anothe county. Fee and pesonalised assistance is offeed to eseaches and thei families on issues such as: Visas Wok pemits Accommodation Legal issues Social secuity, medical cae and taxes Family suppot, language lessons, etc. SERVICES EURAXESS Sevices Sevices Centes can assist eseaches applying fo a visa. The Scientific Visa Package facilitates the pocedue of admitting eseaches coming fom non-eu Membe States (thid-county nationals) to Euope fo the pupose of scientific eseach. Individual Euopean counties do not have identical ules of pocedue. They need to be veified fo each county - the EURAXESS Sevices Centes will help with this. The netwok of EURAXESS Sevices Centes in each paticipating county is coodinated by the national bidgehead oganisation(s) appointed by the competent national authoity. EURAXESS Sevices helps Paula and he family settle in London Paula is a Potuguese national, who completed he Ph.D. in Pais and then moved with he patne and young daughte to London fo post-doctoal eseach. The EURAXESS Sevices cente at he univesity assisted the young family with advice on the UK tax system and in identifying an appopiate school fo thei daughte. Paula and he patne also used the family section of the EURAXESS Sevices website Netwok UK to bette undestand the Child Tust Fund and Child Benefits. Paula and he family wee so impessed by the sevices povided that EURAXESS Sevices will be thei fist point of call fo futue moves in Paula s eseach caee. EURAXESS Sevices: I stated my caee at a time when the expession bain dain was fequently used. Today it has almost disappeaed. Bat De Moo Pofesso at the Depatment of Electical Engineeing at the K.U.Leuven The EURAXESS Sevices Centes netwok compises a staff of moe than 500, eady to assist eseaches, thei employes and fundes fee of chage. These Sevices Centes ae typically located in univesities in the 27 EU Membe States and othe paticipating counties anging fom Iceland to Isael. The EURAXESS Sevices Centes assist eseaches and thei families with evey step of thei move. They ae also an invaluable esouce to employes of eseaches, as they can assist in the pocess of hiing eseaches coming fom aboad. Fo futhe infomation on the Scientific Visa Package, please view the dedicated section on the EURAXESS Sevices page of the website. The questions that EURAXESS Sevices staff ae most fequently asked concen visa and enty conditions. The second hot-topic fo eseaches is funding oppotunities. The thid categoy of most fequently asked questions elates to accommodation. A total of eseaches wee assisted by EURAXESS Sevices Centes in 2009, answeing ove individual questions. 883 Bochue A5 GENE ss venis.indd /12/10 10:54

5 talent in Euope RIGHTS EURAXESS Rights Reseaches should look out fo the HR Excellence in Reseach logo when choosing an employe o funde. This logo is awaded by the Euopean Commission to eseach institutions and fundes that ae actively engaged in the implementation of the Chate & Code pinciples in thei intenal policies and pactices. The Human Resouces Stategy fo Reseaches, implemented on a voluntay basis, is a mechanism that suppots the active implementation of the Chate & Code at institutional level. Once significant pogess in the HR Stategy pocess has been acknowledged by the Euopean Commission, the oganisation has the ight to use the HR Excellence in Reseach logo to incease thei visibility and help them attact the best eseaches. EURAXESS Rights povides compehensive infomation on the Euopean Chate fo Reseaches and the Code of Conduct fo the Recuitment of Reseaches. EURAXESS Rights: I d like to think that we do have a histoy hee of innovation and ceative thinking. Baoness Susan Geenfield Diecto of the Institute fo the Futue of the Mind, Pofesso of Phamacology at Oxfod Univesity The Chate & Code set out the ights and obligations of eseaches, eseach institutions and funding povides. Thei aim is ensue equitable teatment of all eseaches in Euope and to incease tanspaency in thei selection and ecuitment. The two documents also addess the ight to social secuity coveage and access to pensions. To date, moe than 260 oganisations have individually endosed the pinciples of the Chate & Code, epesenting moe than institutions fom 30 counties in Euope and beyond. A full list of signatoies and the complete text of the Chate & Code can be viewed on the web site. With this widely ecognised logo, a eseache can easily identify an employe o funde committed to the pinciples of the Chate & Code. Fo moe infomation on the Chate & Code and on the HR Stategy mechanism, please consult the website o contact the Euopean Commission diectly at RTD-CHARTER@ec.euopa.eu 883 Bochue A5 GENE ss venis.indd /12/10 10:54

6 talent in Euope EURAXESS Links EURAXESS Links keeps eseaches in these egions fully infomed on EU eseach policies, caee oppotunities in Euope and oppotunities fo collaboation with colleagues in Euope. LINKS An eve expanding global community of eseaches, poweed by EURAXESS Links EURAXESS Links: Mobility is something impotant fo eseaches. Being in anothe cultue, seeing othe ole models, is vey inspiing. Bat De Moo Pofesso at the Depatment of Electical Engineeing at the K.U.Leuven EURAXESS Links is a netwoking tool fo Euopean eseaches, scientists and scholas woking outside Euope. It is also an impotant contact point fo eseaches intending to move to Euope fo a eseach position. EURAXESS Links was launched in the USA in 2005, in Japan in 2008, China in 2009, and since 2010 also includes Singapoe and India. EURAXESS Links povides inteactive web sevices to Euopean eseaches woking aboad in ode to keep them linked among themselves and with Euope. The web foum, eseaches database, alets, and e-newslette help in this egad, while netwoking events fo membes ae oganised egulaly. 883 Bochue A5 GENE ss venis.indd /12/10 10:54