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| Magna Carta for Researchers
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The signature of the statement of support
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EIROforum Supports the EC Charter and Code of Conduct
Press
Release 14 December 2006 [PDF]
Today, Janez
Potočnik, European Commissioner for Science and
Research, received a statement of support for the
European Charter for Researchers and the Code of
Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers from
EIROforum.
"The EIROforum partners warmly welcome this
valuable initiative by the European Commission"
said Prof. William G. Stirling, Director General of
ESRF and present Chairman of EIROforum. "This
is an important step towards the implementation of
the European Research Area."
The European Charter for Researchers addresses
the roles, responsibilities and entitlements of
researchers and their employers or funding organisations.
It aims at ensuring that the relationship
between these parties contributes to successful
performance in the generation, transfer and sharing
of knowledge, and to the career development of
researchers.
The Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of
Researchers aims to improve recruitment, to make
selection procedures fairer and more transparent
and proposes different means of judging merit.
Merit should not just be measured on the number of
publications but on a wider range of evaluation criteria,
such as teaching, supervision, teamwork,
knowledge transfer, management and public
awareness activities.
In their statement, signed at the EIROforum
Assembly on 15 November 2006, the seven
EIROforum organisations support the general principles
contained in the Charter and the Code, and
will endeavour individually, where appropriate, to
implement recommendations that have not yet
been undertaken, or which could be improved within
their own organisations.
The two documents were carefully studied by the
organisations' human resources experts, who noted
the high level of compliance with the guidelines of
the Charter and the Code in the EIROforum organisations,
where most of the recommendations are
implemented and part of internal practice.
The implementation of the recommendations of the
Charter and the Code of Conduct will be done in full
compliance with the relevant intergovernmental
conventions and agreements, staff rules and regulations,
applicable to each of the EIROforum organisations.
The Charter and the Code of Conduct
EIROforum Press Contacts
CERN
Renilde Vanden Broeck
Tel: +41 22 767 21 41
E-mail: Renilde.Vanden.Broeck@cern.ch
EFDA
Jennifer Hay
Tel: +44 1235 466 232
E-mail: jennifer.hay@ukaea.org.uk
EMBL
Anna-Lynn Wegener
Tel: +49 6221 387 8452
E-mail: wegener@embl.de
ESA
Franco Bonacina
Tel: + 33 1 53 69 77 13
E-mail: franco.bonacina1@esa.int
ESO
Henri Boffin
Tel: +49 89 3200 6276
E-mail: hboffin@eso.org
ESRF
Montserrat Capellas
Tel: +33 476 88 26 63
E-mail: capellas@esrf.fr
ILL
Françoise Vauquois
Tel: +33 476 20 71 07
E-mail: vauquois@ill.fr |
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