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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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“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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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SECURE is starting the year with an event in cooperation with University of Cyprus, one of the project’s partners piloting the recommendations for improvement of the research career framework and tenure track like models in Europe. Join us, either online and in person, at the “Empowering Researchers Careers: Policies and Skills for a Thriving European Research …

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The side event How to Make Academic Careers Attractive and Sustainable at the WSF2024 was organized by three partners of SECURE project—ICORSA, EURODOC, and MCAA. In Hungary’s capital, from November 20 to 23, the 11th World Science Forum (WSF2024) took place under the slogan “The Science and Policy Interface at the Time of Global Transformations.” …

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