Project description
New ways to reduce the precarity of research careers
Academic research careers are becoming increasingly precarious. Insecurity, low wages and poor career perspectives creates challenges for organisations and researchers. The EU-funded SECURE project will develop coordination and support measures to establish, test and implement a common Research Career Framework (RCF), which offers a structured and supportive skills and development model for researcher recruitment, employment, training, career progression and mobility. The project aims to improve research careers and reduce career precarity. The RCF will aim to ensure career development and progression structure, recognise research and transferable skills and competencies, facilitate intersectoral collaboration and mobility, and deliver solutions against precariousness of research careers in academia. The project will promote the RCF model within the EURAXESS network.
Objective
The Sustainable Careers for Researcher Empowerment (SECURE) project will develop coordination and support measures to create, trial, implement, and mainstream a common Research Career Framework (RCF) that offers a suite of options to support organisations in the recruitment, employment, training, development, progression, and mobility of researchers with the aim of improving research careers and reducing career precarity. The RCF will recognise the research profession across sectors, provide a career development and progression structure for research careers, recognise both research and transferable skills and competences, facilitate intersectoral collaboration and mobility, and offer solutions to the precariousness of research careers in academia. SECURE will test aspects of the RCF and TTL models in trials in four RPOs, one RFO, and one recruitment agency . The trial organisations will first conduct a scoping exercise to map the RCF onto their existing policies and activities for research careers before developing integration plans on how the RCF could be adopted into their existing policies and activities. Due to the short duration of the project and window for trials, it is expected that only some aspects of the RCF and TTL models will be tested. The trial organisations will thus develop actions plans, selecting relevant aspects from the integration plans, to test and implement during the trials. SECURE will mainstream the RCF and TTL models through a series of policy briefs and a summit that explain key aspects of the RCF and TTL models to relevant organisations employing researchers. The RCF and TTL models will be further promoted through key partner organisations in the project targeting researchers, RPOs, and companies. The RCF and TTL models will lastly be promoted in the EURAXESS network including the many EURAXESS service centres, the newly established EURAXESS hubs, and through the ERA Talent Platform being developed.
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HORIZON-CSA - HORIZON Coordination and Support ActionsCoordinator
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Participants (16)
1150 Bruxelles / Brussel
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114 52 STOCKHOLM
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T12 Cork
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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1050 Bruxelles / Brussel
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75011 Paris
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1050 Bruxelles / Brussel
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51000 Rijeka
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1678 Nicosia
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1099 085 Lisboa
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010362 Bucuresti
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11000 Beograd
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1030 Wien
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1116 Budapest
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10623 Berlin
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Partners (1)
Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
CB5 8LA Cambridge
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