People Programme and Measures to Facilitate Researchers Career Development Through Mobility

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People Programme and Measures to Facilitate
Researchers Career Development Through Mobility
European Commission Research DG Sohail
LUKA, Universities and Researchers Unit
4th DRC Summer School (Pecs, Hungary)/July 25th,
2007
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Objectives and Lines of Action

• Create an open, competitive and attractive
  European labor market for researchers through
• Breaking down obstacles to Mobility
• Enhancing status and attractiveness of a research
  career in Europe
• Reinforcing investment in researchers
• Across all action lines, it is essential to
  network scientific Diaspora to maintain the link
  with expatriate researchers and to render them a
  resource for their place of origin

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Initiatives Towards These Objectives

• Marie Curie Actions
• European Researchers Mobility Portal and
  ERA-MORE
• European Charter for Researchers and a Code of
  Conduct for their Recruitment
• Scientific Visa Package for Third Country
  Researchers
• Scientific Diaspora Initiatives

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1) Structuring Training, Mobility and Career
Development Marie Curie Mobility Actions
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FP7 Specific Programmes
Cooperation Collaborative research
Ideas Frontier Research
People Human Potential
Capacities Research Capacity

JRC (non-nuclear)
JRC (nuclear)
Euratom
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PEOPLE programme Continuation of Marie Curie
Actions

• To date
• Very successful programme
• The volume has been constantly increasing
• Approx. 25.000 researchers benefited
• Success rate in FP 6 one in 10-20 applications
  funded
• With FP7
• Increase from FP6 on average 50 per year
• Budget of 4,75 billion, i.e.
• 430 million in 2007
• to 900 million in 2013
• Estimated that 70.000 researchers will benefit.

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The Policy context Human resources in RD

• Advanced countries today all need to build
  excellent careers for their research communities.
  
• Therefore
• From the traditional negative consideration of
  calculating the brain drain versus brain gain
  
• We acknowledge of the fact that any excellent
  science career today has to be international -
  brain circulation or brain exchange.
• Transition from a Mobility programme to an
  active career development programme acquiring
  additional qualifications and targeted trainings
  through transnational mobility.

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The People Programme Marie Curie Actions

• 4,7 Billion in FP7 for 7 years
• Guiding Principles
• Continuity of FP6,
• Focus on structuring impact
• Increased private sector participation
• Strengthened international dimension
• Balanced gender objective, also reintegration
• No thematic priorities

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People 5 Marie Curie building blocks

• 1. Initial training
• Networks for Early stage researchers

• 2. Life long training and career development
• Intra European Fellowships
• European Reintegration Grants
• Co-funding of national programmes

• 3. Industry dimension
• Industry-academia partnership and pathways

• 4. International dimension
• Outgoing fellowships
• International reintegration grants
• Incoming fellowships
• International staff Exchange Programmes (ST,
  ENP)

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1. Initial training Marie Curie Networks for
early stage training

• Networks linking, participants from 3 MS and Ass.
  Countries as the hosts of high quality training
  programmes additional host from third countries
  possible
• Allowances given to early-stage ( up to five
  years after graduation, often Ph.D ) researchers
  and senior visiting scientists  positions
• Desirable, the involvement of private business
  sector
• open to researchers from third countries
• Vacancies will be published and can be looked up
  on the mobility portal
• Containing short training events (conferences,
  summer schools, training courses) mobility
  portal

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2. Marie Curie Intra European fellowships for
career development

• Life-long training career development (4 after
  graduation post doc)
• In two modes
• Traditional mode selection/funding of fellows
  through call at EC level
• international not excluded, but more sense to
  go for the international directly
• 2. New  Co-funding  mode with structuring
  effect - date 2007 not fixed
• Selection for  co-funding  of existing or new
  national, regional and international fellowship
  programmes
• Researchers apply to the co-funded national
  programmes programmes operate following own
  standards
• Vacancies ? mobility portal

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3. Marie Curie Industry partnerships and pathways

• Enhance cooperation and skills exchange between
  academia and industry on a common research
  project
• At least two different Member States or
  Associated countries (one from EU 27) and in
  addition possible third partners
• At least one organisation from each sector
• Funding for 3-4 years
• Networking activities, workshops/conferences,
  including for researchers from outside the
  partnership

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4. International dimensionOutgoing fellowships
(from EU)

• Career development/ life-long training for EU
  researchers
• EU outgoing individual fellowships, to be trained
  in a third country institute or organisation
• at least 4 years after graduation
• Funding for up to 3 years in total
• -- with 1-2 years abroad
• To establish cooperation
• Based on a personal career development plan
• Application together with the host of the return
  fellowship,
• mandatory return phase

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4. International dimensionIncoming fellowships

• Incoming individual fellowships for top class
  researchers to upgrade their qualification in the
  EU and Ass and be trained in competences they
  could not aquire in the home country.
• at least four years after graduation (post doc)
• to develop cooperation
• Proposal is submitted by the researcher together
  with the host organisation
• For 1 to 2 years
• Salary plus contribution towards research
  related costs
• Eventually a 1 year return phase for researchers
  from ICPC

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4. International dimension Preparation of Staff
exchange schemeconcept not yet finalised

• In preparation for 2008
• for EU Neighbourhood Countries
• And Countries with ST Agreement
• To establish or deepen partnership between min. 2
  research organisations within EU/Ass and one or
  more organisations in third countries.
• Duration of Partnership 4Years
• Co-funding of exchange programmes between Europe
  and 3rd countries
• Partners institutes to select their staff for
  exchange

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Staff exchange schemes

• Short term stays (between 1 and 12 month)
• For co-funding in principle in similar
  proportions
• Researchers to carry their salary
• Funds would cover subsistence (including travel)
  of the researcher,
• Call Open to all countries
• In early 2008
• time to organise the matching funds.

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Initiatives Towards These Objectives

• Marie Curie Actions
• European Researchers Mobility Portal and
  ERA-MORE
• European Charter for Researchers and a Code of
  Conduct for their Recruitment
• Scientific Visa Package for Third Country
  Researchers
• Scientific Diaspora Initiatives

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2) Opportunities in Europe and the
Mobility/Return Experience The Mobility Portal
and ERA-MORE

• Improved information and practical assistance
  through the European Researchers Mobility Portal
  and ERA-MORE

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The European Researchers Mobility
Portal(http//ec.europa.eu/eracareers)
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NUMBER OF UNIQUE VISITORS PER MONTH 2006 data

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who visit a site during a certain period of
reporting time (hours, days, one months) and
unique visitors can make more than one visit
during a period, they will in fact be counted
only one time.
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NUMBER OF PAGE VIEWS PER MONTH 2006 data
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displayed. Images, graphics and all other page
components as well as pages accessed for indexing
by search engines, robots and spiders etc are not
counted as page views.
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ERA-MORE (I)

• 200 Mobility Centers in Europe and numerous
  contact points in 32 countries
• Offer customized assistance to researchers and
  their families
• Provide services to
• Incoming, Outgoing and Returning Researchers
• EU citizens Third Country Researchers
• Researchers in Academia in Industry

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Settling In ERA-MORE (II)

• Range of Services
• Entry Conditions
• Social Security
• Taxes
• Language and Culture
• Family Support
• Other Aspects of Everyday Life

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Settling In ERA-MORE (III)
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3) Open, Attractive and Competitive European
Labour Market for Researchers Charter Code

• A bill of rights and duties for all researchers
  working in the EU
• So far, ca. 150 undersigning organisations from
  19 countries
• One International Organisation (EIROforum) and
  interest from a private firm
• Work under way to introduce a Label to
  recognise organizations implementing good practice

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4) Getting In! Scientific Visa (I)

• A Directive and two recommendations on the
  researchers visa package were adopted in 2005
• Facilitated procedures for long-term stay (gt3
  months) and accelerated ones for short-term to
  attend conferences, etc.
• Already transposed in National legislation by A,
  BE, DE, FR, GR, LT, SI, SK
• All MS committed to adopt the package by October
  2007

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4) Getting In! Scientific Visa (II)
Hosting Agreement

• The "hosting agreement" is a contract to certify
  the researcher's status
• With reference to his/her possession of
• scientific skills,
• financial means
• and health insurance.
• On the basis of this contract, and with standard
  conditions
• absence of threat to public policy,
• health and security,
• possession of valid travel document
• The immigration authorities of the host country
  will rapidly deliver the residence permit.

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5) Staying Connected Networking Scientific
Diaspora (I)

• A patrimony of knowledge lost if researchers are
  not connected with their homeland
• FP7 actions to ensure that a potential loss is
  transformed into a valuable resource
• Diaspora actions for both European Researchers
  Abroad (ERA-Link) and Non-European Researchers in
  Europe (NERE-Link)
• Both ERA-Link and NERE-Link are needed for an
  open, competitive and attractive labor market for
  researchers

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Staying Connected Networking Scientific
Diaspora (II)

• ERA-Link successfully launched in USA with
  membership exceeding 3000
• Launching of ERA-Link in countries/regions beyond
  the USA is planned for 2008
• First surveys for ERA-Link expansion starting
  during 2007
• Surveys and studies to initiate NERE-Link are
  planned for 2008

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Thank you for your attention!
Sohail.luka_at_ec.europa.eu
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Further Information

• Seventh Framework Programme http//ec.europa.eu./
  research/fp7/home_en.html
• Newsletter Europe4Researchers http//ec.europa.e
  u/eracareers/index_en.cfm?l116
• European Researchers - Mobility Portal
  http//ec.europa.eu./eracareers/index_en.cfm
• EU research http//ec.europa.eu/research/index_e
  n.cfm
• Information requests (e-mail) research_at_ec.europa
  .eu.