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ERA Steering Group for
Human Resources and Mobility (SGHRM)
– potential collaboration with GPC
Hans M Borchgrevink
Norwegian SGHRM delegate, Chair WG Monitoring and Indicators
Chair Chair
ERAC GPC meeting, Brussels 25 June 2013
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»
(Competitiveness Council Conclusion Sept 2008)
 Currently representatives from
27 Member States and 12 Associated Countries
with Secretariat provided by the Commission
 Chair: Conor O’Carroll, Ireland
 One of the 6 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»; >35.000 positions advertised 2012
 EURAXESS Service Centres (~ 200) and national web portals
- for information and assistance for mobile researchers in ~40 countries
 EURAXESS Links
- contact person for information for - and registry over - European researchers abroad, currently
established in USA/Canada, Japan, China, India, ASEAN, Brazil
 Pan-European Supplementary Pension Funds for researchers
- currently not yet established
 Principles of Innovative Doctoral Training (2011)
 European Framework for Researcher Careers (2011)
 HR Logo Awards for research institutions implementing Charter & Code
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 2012 focused 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
- recruit and retain a critical mass of skilled researchers
- open transparent international competitive recruitment
- gender balance – in research groups, senior positions and selection
committees improves scientific quality and diversity of ideas
- improve the attractiveness of the research profession
- facilitate flexible mobility of researchers
- facilitate international research collaboration
Current SGHRM focus areas
related to development of ERA Framework
SGHRM appoints WGs to prepare policy reports, currently
 i) WG on Innovative doctoral training
 ii) WG on Professional development of researchers
Earlier topics focused include
 iii) Research career structure
 iv) Social Security (incl. supplementary pension fund);
 v) Portability of grants (the money follows researcher principle).
Besides, the permanent
 SGHRM Working Group Monitoring and Indicators proposes related
indicators for the Innovation Union Scoreboard and for the annual
Researchers’ Report on Country Profiles of internationalisation of
research, including co-publication, mobility and gender issues
On Doctoral training
 SGHRM WG made a mapping exercise with 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 increasingly requested
 Doctoral candidates should be trained in a context which is
international, interdisciplinary and intersectoral
- and striving for research excellence
Partner organisations
Key stakeholders that SGHRM collaborate with 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
 European Science Foundation (ESF)
 Science Europe
 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
Research career structure
- to improve comparability of research careers
 SGHRM WG 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.
Potential GPC - SGHRM collaboration areas
 JPIs should comply with the Charter & Code (=adopt a HR
Strategy) and the European Framework for Researcher Careers
 Establish attractive and harmonised conditions for recruitment of
global research talents to JPIs
 Stimulate open, transparent, international, competitive
recruitment of researchers to JPIs
 Aim towards enhanced quality of doctoral training in JPIs
 Facilitate flexible terms and funding schemes for researcher
mobility in JPIs, including physical/geographical, interdisciplinary,
intersectoral and virtual mobility (cf. ESF Science Policy Briefing
No 49
http://www.esf.org/fileadmin/Public_documents/Publications/spb49
_ResearcherMobility.pdf
 Stimulate gender balance, including senior researcher positions,
and (interdisciplinary and intersectoral) diversity of research
groups to improve scientific quality and diversity of ideas in JPIs