Developing & Tracking Researchers Careers In & Beyond Europe

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1 Developing & Tracking Researchers Careers In & Beyond Europe Results & new projects ahead Dr. Beate Scholz Brussels,

2 Topics EARCD Mission & Milestones Enabling Guiding Observing Realising the CTMP 2

3 EARCD Mission, The EARCD aims to adopt a common strategy to ensure the attractiveness of research careers and thereby to create and improve European-level and coordinated national policies and programmes for different career stages and career paths. 3

4 Enabling: motivation Researchers careers are increasingly diverse! (p. 4) Needs: Developing researchers throughout their careers in line with European Framework for Research Careers common structured approach towards researchers professional development 4

5 Enabling: evidence Feasibility study, based on the UK s Vitae Researcher Development Framework 5

6 Enabling: definition Cf. Developing Research Careers In & Beyond Europe, p. 10 6

7 Enabling: key recommendations Realising a European Researchers Professional Development Framework tool for researchers & institutions Briefing for research funders and research organisations to set up a concept for researchers professional development (RPD) => 10 recommendations Ways to proceed Conducting a wider independent trial based on Vitae s Researcher Development Framework European Commission Implementation of the Briefing by research funding & performing organisations 7

8 Guiding: motivation Recognising the increasing diversification of careers, research organisations need to revisit their policies towards both mobility and appraising researchers achievements. (p. 4) Needs Better assessment of researchers individual career portfolios and mobility patterns 8

9 Guiding: evidence Expert hearing on New concepts of mobility & combined/ part-time positions, London, May 2012 Learning from good practice Preparing the ground for a guideline 9

10 Guiding: definition Types of mobility: international intersectoral interdisciplinary & virtual Cf. Developing Research Careers In & Beyond Europe, p

11 Guiding: key recommendations Suggesting new concepts of mobility and their acknowledgment including combined part-time positions Means to support different forms of mobility Status: achieved Ways to proceed Developing a guideline for peer review & evaluation Acknowledging the results of ESF s Member Organisation Fora on Evaluation and on Peer Review 11

12 Observing: motivation Research organisations are accountable visà-vis their researchers and society at large to show that their programme achieve the desired impact and that scarce resources are well spent. (p. 4) Needs Creating transparency and understanding the structures of research careers 12

13 Observing: evidence International workshop How to track researchers career s, Luxembourg, Feb Why & for whom is career tracking important? How shall it be carried out? 13

14 Observing: definition Cf. Developing Research Careers In & Beyond Europe, p

15 Observing: key recommendations Moving towards a European Research Career Observatory Transparency regarding challenges, bottlenecks & opportunities of research careers Help research organisations to better tailor policies & activities to researchers needs Ways to proceed Creating an International Platform for Research Career Tracking and Monitoring; Status: under way Orientation on how to set up surveys, studies and/or career tracking systems based on international good practice 15

16 Topics EARCD Mission & Milestones Realising the CTMP Milestones Pilot project References Elements 16

17 CTMP Milestones Call for expressions of interest (before end of October 2013) 09/09/13, Strasbourg: Expert Meeting Terms of reference, project plan 21-23/05/13, Oslo: EARCD dissemination conference Outline of pilot 22/02/13, London: Launch Workshop Need for career tracking pilot 09-10/02/12, Luxembourg: International Workshop How to track researchers careers Definition, need for CTMP 17

18 Career tracking pilot: references ESF: How to Track Researchers Careers EU Expert Group on the Research Profession: Excellence, Equality and Entrepreneurialism, July 2012 We recommend establishing a coherent European Monitoring System for the Research Profession. ( ) More specifically, the European Monitoring System should provide: ( ) an information system to measure and track, taking into account gender balance, the mobility of researchers (geographical, inter-sectoral) and their career paths. 18

19 Career tracking pilot: clients Target number: 5-6, e.g. Research funding organisations Non-university RPOs Universities Co-funded schemes, (inter)national funding schemes Benefits: proven effectiveness for use of (public) resources Total duration: 12 months Costs to be shared between participants, seed funding by ESF 19

20 Expected outputs, outcome & impact Output Recommendations for future career tracking studies & core questionnaire Joint state of the art methodology applicable in Europe & on a global scale Outcome: comparability of Survey results Career development schemes & their effects Impact Transparency regarding challenges, bottlenecks & opportunities of research careers Evidence-based policy planning & resource allocation Truly European approach, model with impact beyond Europe 20