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JOIN the SECURE Summit and Shape the Future of Research Careers

by admin February 14, 2025February 14, 2025Comments are Disabled

The SECURE Summit will take place on March 6th, 2025, in Brussels, Belgium, at the YERUN – Young European Research Universities Network (Rue du Trône 62, 1050 Ixelles), bringing together researchers, policymakers, and research institutions to discuss sustainable research career pathways in Europe. This is a hybrid event and online participation is also available. The …

NOVA Unveils SECURE Trial to Improve Research Career Pathways

by admin February 11, 2025Comments are Disabled

The NOVA University Lisbon (NOVA) has successfully implemented key actions from the SECURE Project’s Research Career Framework, applying targeted initiatives across eight pillars. Over the past year, the university has made significant progress in reducing career precarity, advancing policy reform, promoting Open Science, and enhancing career development opportunities for researchers. Reducing Career Precarity In line …

PLOCAN Implements SECURE Project Actions to Enhance Research Careers

by admin February 10, 2025February 10, 2025Comments are Disabled

The Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) has successfully implemented 14 key actions from the SECURE Project’s Research Careers Framework over the past six months. These efforts, spanning across eight pillars, aim to enhance research career development, improve working conditions, and foster interdisciplinary collaboration. Key Actions and Results Defining Research Roles: PLOCAN conducted a …

Adoc Talent Management Strengthens Career Mobility for PhD Holders

by admin February 7, 2025February 10, 2025Comments are Disabled

Paris-based Adoc Talent Management has implemented innovative approaches to support career transitions for PhD holders through its involvement in the SECURE project. The initiative focuses on addressing key challenges faced by researchers and developing tools to facilitate smoother transitions between academic and private-sector careers. Many researchers in France and across Europe face uncertainty in their …

The Future of Research Evaluation: Advancements at the University of Rijeka

by admin February 6, 2025February 12, 2025Comments are Disabled

The University of Rijeka (UNIRI) has been at the forefront of the SECURE project, a Horizon Europe-funded initiative focused on modernising research career frameworks. As one of only three European universities involved, UNIRI has trialled key measures to enhance researcher employment, training, development, progression, and mobility, while exploring tenure-track-like models. The results of this trial …

Supporting Researchers: Inspiring Event Held at the University of Cyprus

by admin January 31, 2025Comments are Disabled

The University of Cyprus hosted the event „Empowering Researchers’ Careers: Policies and Skills for a Thriving European Research Ecosystem“, organized as part of the SECURE project. This initiative brought together experts and researchers to discuss European policies, innovative programs, and diverse career paths within and beyond academia. Keynote speakers Dario Capezzuto, Prof. Saša Zelenika, and …

Job security is essential for fostering innovation and excellence

by admin January 21, 2025January 23, 2025Comments are Disabled

“If we do not continue to invest in the very thing that’s making us successful – and that is education – then it’s a zero-sum game. It’s like starving the goose that lays the golden egg” Text: Đorđe Petrović – CPN At the 11th World Science Forum (WSF2024), held in Budapest from November 20 to …

Monitoring Research Careers in Germany – Allowing for informed decision-making and transparent career paths

by admin January 15, 2025Comments are Disabled

In December 2023, the Council of the European Union recommended, inter alia, that member states monitor “relevant aspects of research careers in the Union” to “support better understanding of challenges and opportunities by researchers, and promote the attractiveness of Union research performing organisations for the best talents” (p. 51). In the following, the article offers …

Advancing Research Careers: UEFISCDI’s Role and Support Programs

by admin January 13, 2025January 13, 2025Comments are Disabled

The Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development, and Innovation Funding (UEFISCDI), Romania’s main funding agency for RDI competitive funds, under the authority of the Romanian Ministry of Education, operates under a contractual agreement with the Ministry of Research, Innovation, and Digitalization. It is tasked with defining, developing, managing and monitoring research funding programs within …