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European Partnership
for Researchers: the
Spanish approach
Dra. Angeles Rodríguez Peña
Deputy Director General for European Programmes
Ministry for Science and Innovation
A European Partnership for Researchers: Key areas
Social Security
and
Supplementary
Pension rights
Open recruitment
and portability of
grants
Attractive
employment
and working
conditions
Training, skills
and experience
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A European Partnership for Researchers: Key areas
Social Security
and
Supplementary
Pension rights
Open recruitment
and portability of
grants
Attractive
employment
and working
conditions
Training, skills
and experience
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Open recruitment and portability: main obstacles
 Limited autonomy in hiring by public research institutions
 “Internal” recruitment in public sector.
 Specific mobility funding is still limited.
Mobility is the desired outcome, portability is a means to that
end,
but…financial legal and organisational obstacles claim for
joint action!
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Open recruitment and portability: possible actions

Giving institutions greater autonomy in hiring and
adopting best practice on the recognition of qualifications.

Ensuring that all public positions are openly advertised
online and improve practical support for mobile researchers.

Allowing portability of individual research grants by
national funding agencies and relevant Community
programmes.
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Open recruitment: the Spanish approach
National and Regional Programmes
Both open to applications from foreign researchers (even no
residents).
Regional Programmes targeted
(Catalonia, Basque Country)
to
a
particular
region
Regional Programmes:
National Programmes:
Ramón y Cajal
ICREA (Catalonia)
Juan de la Cierva
Ikerbasque (Basque
Country)
Torres Quevedo
others (Andalusia,
(to work in the private sector)
Galizia, Aragón)
JAE doc
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Open recruitment: the Spanish case
Programme
Targeted
Researchers
Elegibility
rule
Funding
Duration
Ramón y Cajal
(RyC)
2 – 10 years
after PhD
Mobility
43.370€ +
15.500 (start
up)
5 (tenure)
Juan de la
Cierva
1-3 years after
PhD
Mobility
33.360 €
JAE-doc
1 - 3 years
after PhD
-
36.000 €
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ICREA
More than 4
years after PhD
4 years of
international
exposure
salary of the
researcher
(full
professor)
permanent
position
Beatriu de
Pinos
0 - 5 years
after Phd
-
34.188€
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More than 4
years after PhD
4 years of
international
exposure +
mobility
salary of the
researcher
(full
professor)
Permanent
position
IKERBASQUE
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Open recruitment: the Spanish case
Non-ES
(%)
UE
(%)
Success
rate
(%)
Female
(%)
RyC
20 (45*)
10.7
(UE15)
18
35,6
JdlC
26
14.1
(UE15)
26
48,4
ICREA
39,9
29.6
(UE27)
10
18,7
Beatriu de
Pinos
40
12,5
-
IKERBASQU
E
78,7
7
10.7
Programme
Location
-
38.6
(UE27)
* coming from outside Spain
(20% foreing + 25% nationals)
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Open recruitment: the Spanish case
Spanish performance at ERC calls
92% of the StG holders were either RyC or ICREA
researchers
28% of the StG holders were non-nationals
77% of the AdG holders were either ICREA or RyC
researchers
38% of the AdG holders were non-nationals
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A European Partnership for Researchers: Key areas
Open recruitment
and portability of
grants
Social Security
and
Supplementary
Pension rights
Attractive
employment
and working
conditions
Training, skills
and experience
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Social security & Supplementary pension rights
Why to address researchers? Are they a special category
of workers?
No, but problems normally faced by other mobile workers can
become more serious for researchers:


the high-mobile nature of research activities;
researchers often hold short/medium term contracts of
different nature (i.e. employee, fellow, self-employed) that
may not fit in general national social security co-ordination
rules.
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Social security & Supplementary pension rights: actions
Ensure that researchers and their employers have access to
targeted information.
Better utilisation of existing legal framework.
Including rules to facilitate international mobility of
researchers when concluding bilateral and multilateral social
security agreements with third countries.
Facilitating the transfer of supplementary pension rights
for highly-mobile workers, including researchers.
Encouraging
researchers.
pan-EU
pension
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schemes
targeted
at
Social Security and Supplementary Pensions right: Spain

Early Stage Researchers are covered with minimum social
security during their first 2 years. After this training period, all
researchers have a work contract with full social security
coverage.

Suplementary pensions are subject to private law. In this
respect a top (COM)-down(EU27) approach will be more
effective. Spain is looking forward to the results of the ongoing
study "Feasability study of a pan-European pension fund for EU
researchers" that will be finished by April 2010.
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A European Partnership for Researchers: Key areas
Open recruitment
and portability of
grants
Social Security
and
Supplementary
Pension rights
Attractive
employment
and working
conditions
Training, skills
and experience
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Working conditions
Complex scenario: EU and national labour law frameworks.
Problems relate to the low level of salaries, to availability of
financial resources, but also to how such resources are
allocated, in particular, how academic performance is
rewarded.
How
to best balance stability of employment with flexibility
deemed necessary in research?
How
to best reconciling professional and private/family life?
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Working conditions: possible actions
Improving the career development opportunities for earlystage researchers by moving towards "flexicurity principles",
regular evaluation, wider autonomy and better training;
Research funders to take career development into account
when evaluating research proposals;
Introducing more flexibility in contractual and administrative
arrangements and relevant national legislation for senior and
end-of career researchers.
Ensuring that all publicly funded researchers are covered by an
adequate social security coverage.
Achieving adequate gender representation in selection and
funding bodies and adopting policies that enable both men and
women to pursue a scientific career.
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Working conditions: Spain
Statute for early stage researchers
Stipend (2 years)
- minimum social security coverage
Working contract (2 years)
Full social security coverage
Experienced researchers (PhD holders)
Working contract (2 years)
Full social security coverage
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Spain: structured research career
Doctoral Thesis
Title
Researcher
Sufficiency
10 years
3 years
Juan de la Cierva
4 years
Pregrado stipend / contracts
(EPIF)
Technical Support
Ramón y Cajal Programme I3
(2005)
Modification
of the
Unversity
Regulation
Law (2007)
Torres Quevedo
Public Employment Tenders at Public Researcher Organisms
Institution Contracts of R&D
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Spain: The New Law of Science
Professional
Development
Stages
Pre-doctoral
Description
Contract
Duration
PhD
yes
4 years
Easly postdocs
yes
1-3 years
Training
Post-doctoral
Professional
Carreer
Access Phase
Experienced
researcher
yes
1-5 years
Consolidation
Phase
After external
evaluation
yes
permanent
requirements
established by
each execution
agents of the
system.
yes
permanent
Later Phases
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A European Partnership for Researchers: Key areas
Open recruitment
and portability of
grants
Social Security
and
Supplementary
Pension rights
Attractive
employment
and working
conditions
Training, skills
and experience
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Training, skills and experience
Not only entail skills for the private sector or interaction
between academia and business, but also to better respond
to the evolving academic world, with rising emphasis
on multi- and interdisciplinary research, competitive
funding and international collaboration (Bologna, FP7 PEOPLE,
Joint-doctorates in ERASMUS, EIT).
National skills agendas:
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
To ensure that researchers are equipped with the
necessary skills.
Developed in close collaboration with stakeholders in
both public and private sector and with input of
researchers themselves.
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Training, skills and experience: Possible actions
Amelioration of the training environment requires to ensure
better links between academia and industry, e.g. by:

Support the combination of doctoral training and industry
experience by the recognition of such training periods in
academia (involvement of industry in curriculum
development)
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Promoting PhDs programmes cofunded by industry

Facilitate intersectoral mobility
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Training, skills and experience: Spain

No national initiatives so far: training programmes are
designed by each University

The new Spanish Law for Science will reinforce the
intersectoral mobility, allowing temporary leaves from the
public into the private sector.
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