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The future ERA Framework
- input from the Steering Group for Human
Resources and Mobility (SGHRM) to ERAC
Hans M Borchgrevink
Norwegian SGHRM delegate
Chair WG Monitoring and Indicators
The Future ERA Framework
– strategies and tools for
Grand Challenges responding Research
in tomorrow’s European Research Landscape
NordForsk Conference, Brussels 28 Feb 2012
ERA Steering Group for Human Resources
and Mobility (SGHRM) – short history
 Established 2002
 Re-launched 2009 with adapted mandate
to follow-up the Communication «Better careers and more
mobility; a European Partnership for Researchers»
(Competitive Council Conclusion Sept 2008)
 Currently representatives from
27 Member States and 12 Associated Countries
with Secretariat provided by the Commission
 Chair: Prof Fulvio Esposito, IT
 One of 5 groups reporting to ERAC
- on researcher career, recruitment and mobility issues
ERA Steering Group for Human Resources
and Mobility (SGHRM) – initiatives
 The European Charter for Researchers and
The Code of Conduct for recruitment of Researchers
- «Charter & Code» EU Recommendation (2005) =
EURAXESS Rights
 «Scientific VISA»
- one EU Directive and two Recommendations on «fast-track» Visa procedures
for mobile researchers (2005)
 EURAXESS JOBS
- website for advertisement of researcher positions,
linked to other job databases incl «Nature Jobs»;
30.000 positions advertised 2011
 EURAXESS Service Centres (~ 200) and national web portals
- for information and assistance for mobile researchers in ~35 countries
 EURAXESS Links
- contact person for information for - and registry over - European researchers
abroad, currently established in USA, Japan, China, India
 Pan-European Supplementary Pension Funds for
researchers
SGHRM input to ERAC on ERA Framework
 SGHRM is actively engaged in policy action towards the
implementation of Innovation Union Commitments 1, 4 and 30
 SGHRM input to ERAC focuses only on Commitment 4
and on areas where SGHRM can give
added value by concrete deliverables
Core prerequisites for realising a successful and competitive
European Research Area include
- a critical mass of skilled researchers
- gender balance – also in senior positions and selection committees
- improve the attractiveness of the research profession
- free mobility of researchers
Current SGHRM focus areas
related to development of ERA Framework
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Doctoral training;
Recruitment in public research institutions;
Research career structure;
Social Security (incl. supplementary pension fund);
Portability of grants (the money follows researcher principle).
Besides,
 SGHRM Working Group Monitoring and indicators proposes
related indicators for the Innovation Union Scoreboard for the
registration of state-of-play and development of international research
collaboration, including co-publication, mobility and gender issues
Report on Doctoral training (1)
 SGHRM Working Group SKILLS presents the results of a
mapping exercise which provides an overview of recent
developments in doctoral training in Europe and USA (2011)
 Aims towards a common approach to enhance the quality of
doctoral training
 Doctoral schools and tailored programmes are increasingly
established, including international collaboration
 Doctoral training must increasingly meet the needs of an
employment market that is wider than academia
 Generic/transferable skills are requested
 Doctoral candidates should be trained in a context which is
international, interdisciplinary and intersectoral
- and striving for research excellence
Report on Doctoral training (2)
Key stakeholders include
 European University Association (EUA)
– Salzburg 1 Principles and Salzburg 2 Recommendations
based on a bottom-up process
 League of European Research Universities (LERU)
- position paper on doctoral training beyond 2010
 Coimbra Group
- essential requirements for doctoral training and PhD degree
standards, including transatlantic cooperation
 ORPHEUS
- towards standards for PhD education in Biomedicine & Health
 The Banff Principles on Graduate Education
- (USA, Canada, EUA, Australia, China): 9 principles on global
career competence and high-quality international programmes
Open recruitment
in public research institutions
 SGHRM Working group JOBS has made a Strategy to boost
the publication of job vacancies on the website EURAXESS
JOBS
Elements include
 Raise awareness of the website (2011: 30.000 jobs!)
 Stress the added value of open transparent and international
recruitment of researchers
 Stress the added value of synergies by international
cooperation and partnership being facilitated by open
recruitment via international website
Research career structure
- to improve comparability of research careers
 SGHRM Working Group SKILLS produced a document
“Towards a European Framework for Research Careers”
- proposing 4 researcher categories with the following working
titles:
 R1 First Stage Researcher (up to the point of PhD)
 R2 Recognised Researcher (PhD holders or equivalent who are
not yet fully independent)
 R3 Established Researcher (researchers who have developed a
level of independence.)
 R4 Leading Researcher ( researchers leading their research area
or field)
 The Framework is "sector-neutral”. ESF and LERU approved.
The system is introduced in EURAXESS JOBS advertisements.
Improved Social Security for mobile
researchers - towards a
pan-European supplementary pension fund
 SGHRM Expert Group on social security and pension rights
produced a report including technical and legal issues on setting up
a pan-European supplementary pensioin fund for researchers
 At present vesting periods and problems with transnational
portability of pensions are negative for mobile researchers
 To establish cross-border arrangements is relevant and valuable
 Multinational companies already establish cross-border pension
funds
 Preferred legal framework: European Directive on the Institution
for Occupational Retirement Provision (IORP
 There appear to be no insurmountable barriers to implementation
Cross-cutting issues: relation to
Employment and Social Affairs
 Many of the issues that influence attractiveness of
researcher careers and cross-border mobility
are administered by ministries other than research
– e.g. Employment, and Social Affairs
 SGHRM did an important part of the preparatory work
that led to having a number of
Research ministers taking part in an EPSCO Council
under the Spanish Presidency.
Present SGHRM activities
Fall 2011 SGHRM established three new Working Groups
addressing:
 WG1: Human Resources Strategy for Researchers and other
principles to modernize HR management and development;
 WG2: Portability of grants - money follows researchers
principle;
 WG3: National strategies for researchers' training
The WG deliverables are due April 2012 and will be transformed
into policy issues by SGHRM that will be potential building blocks
in the development of the ERA Framework
 WG4: Monitoring and indicators is continued and SGHRM
approved 25 Jan 2012 its proposed gender indicator for the
Innovation Scoreboard: “Number of women at Grade A in
academic staff as % of total Grade A academic staff” – the rightmost indicator of the SHE-figures “scissors” diagram.