Researchers' Partnership

The fundamentals of a successful European Research Area (ERA) are excellent researchers. To ensure this, it is necessary to improve the attractiveness of researchers´ careers in Europe and the conditions for their mobility. To offer the researchers adequate framework conditions and to ensure a single European labour market for researchers in the long run, common efforts of Member States are inevitable.

Against this background, the European Commission released its Communication entitled “Better careers and more mobility: a European partnership for researchers” in May 2008. This Communication launched one of the five initiatives for implementing the European Research Area (ERA). The Commission proposes to develop a Partnership (for 3 years) between the Member States and the Commission to jointly drive forward a number of targeted priority actions in key areas for securing adequate and excellent human resources for R&D in Europe.

Member States shall therefore establish common guidelines for the implementation of the Partnership, identify best practices and develop respective national actions plans (first implementation reports shall be released by Member States by the end of 2009). The “Steering Group on Human Resources and Mobility” will be realigned in view of the “Researchers´ Partnership”, and the Competitiveness Council shall discuss the implementation of the Partnership on a regular basis.

In this context, the competent ministers of Portugal and Luxembourg, José Mariano Gago and Francois Biltgen, compiled priority actions for implementing the “Researchers´ Partnership.”

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