ICoRSA Annual Researcher Career Summit 2022 - EU and Global Perspectives

Join us online for our 1st Summit with key speakers presenting their perspectives on researcher careers, and representatives of national research staff associations focusing on challenges and impacts.

We will officially present our Position Statement on Precarity of Research Careers as well as the results of our Global Survey on Research Career Progression.

ICoRSA mission is to advance the welfare of researchers and in particularly advance the career prospects and career development path of researchers. In spite many initiatives, proposals and policies issued over the last decade or two, there's been very little progress to improve the quality of researcher career, if anything it could be viewed as becoming more unattractive.

In order for ICoRSA to approach decision making bodies both at European level and global level, it is necessary for ICoRSA to be fully informed and provided with relevant information and data on the current status of researcher careers. ICoRSA has identified that there is an enormous gap in the knowledge of the career of researchers globally and how they vary from country to country and region to region. Some countries operate best practise in many areas, and other countries are operate poorer practices. In short, there is no comprehensive global picture of the careers of researchers.

Key speakers

Carthage Smith | OECD

Lidia Borrell-Damian | ScienceEurope

Slaven Misljencevic | EC Directorate for Research and Innovation

Clare Viney | CRAC/Vitae

Carl Vannetelbosch | UNESCO

Online Conference

Despite our hopes that we would be able to organise a physical event, our Forum will be fully online . The online format enables us to offer you an event with international speakers . Join us in the discussions and Q&A sessions!

AGENDA (in CEST)

12.00 – 12.10

WELCOME & OPENING SPEECH

Gordon Dalton | ICoRSA

12.10 - 13.50

PRESENTATIONS BY KEY SPEAKERS

Carthage Smith - Senior Policy Analyst - Lead co-ordinator, OECD Global Science Forum

Formerly Deputy Executive Director International Council for Science

Topic: OECD publication: Reducing the precarity of academic research careers

Lidia Borrell-Damian - Secretary General of ScienceEurope

Formerly Director for Research and Innovation at the European University Association (EUA)

Topic: "Researchers' careers and research culture"

Slaven Misljencevic - Policy Officer in the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation of the European Commission

Topic: European labour market for researchers and the development of RESAVER pan-European occupational pension fund

Clare Viney - Chief Executive Officer of CRAC/Vitae

Chartered Scientist and Chemist

Topic: Researcher Development Framework (RDF)

Carl Vannetelbosch - UNESCO , Section for Research, Policy and Foresight in the UNESCO Sector for Social and Human Sciences

Topic: UNESCO Recommendation on Science and Scientific Researchers

Q&A SESSION

PRESENTATION OF ICoRSA'S POSITION STATEMENT ON PRECARITY OF RESEARCH CAREERS

COFFEE BREAK: 13.50 – 14.10

14.10 - 15.50

PRESENTATION OF RESULTS OF ICoRSA'S GLOBAL SURVEY ON RESEARCH CAREER PROGRESSION

PRESENTATIONS BY REPRESENTATIVES OF NATIONAL RESEARCH STAFF ASSOCIATIONS

Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN, Spain) - Dr. Jose Joaquin Hernandez Brito, CEO and Director

VDI/VDE Innovation + Technology GmbH (Germany) - Martin Hering, Education, Science and Humanities

Associação Nacional de Investigadores em Ciência e Tecnologia (ANICT, Portugal) - Mafalda Rangel, Vice-President

Italian Research Staff Association (Italy) - Sveva Avveduto, Board member

Irish Research Staff Association (Ireland) - Andrew Allen, Chair

Q&A SESSION

15.50 - 16.00

CLOSING SPEECH

ICoRSA

The Zoom link will be shared via email after registration and will be available here when the Summit starts!