Fabienne Gautier - European University Association

Doctoral Training in the
European Research Area
8th EUA-CDE Annual Meeting
Friday 19 June 2015
Fabienne Gautier – Head of Unit, DG RTD B2
Research & Innovation
European Research Area
(Article 179 of the Treaty)
"in which, researchers, scientific
knowledge and technology will
circulate freely"
-like a single market•
Reinforced ERA - Partnership Approach
The ERA Communication of July 2012 aims to improve the quality, efficiency
and effectiveness of research systems in Europe through a reinforced
partnership between:
 European Commission
 Member States
 Stakeholder Organisations (MoUs and regular
Platform)
Working with Member States and institutions
 ERA Stakeholders Platform
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Regular meetings with SHOs (EUA, LERU, CESAER, EARTO, Science
Europe, Nordforsk)
 ERA Steering Group on Human Resources and
Mobility (SGHRM)
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Regular meetings with national Ministries. Develops common guidelines,
new or improved policy actions. Mutual learning. Working Groups on
specific issues, often includes SHO representatives
 Monitoring Progress:
 ERA Progress Report (September 2014) concluded : conditions to
achieve ERA now in place. Reforms must now be implemented at the
Member State level to make ERA work
 Researchers' Report (September 2014) measures progress towards an
open and attractive European labour market for researchers
 ERA Roadmap (May 2015) and National Roadmaps foreseen for mid2016
ERA Priorities
1) More effective national research systems
2) Transnational Cooperation and Competition
3) An Open Labour Market for Researchers
4) Gender Equality
5) Access and Circulation of Knowledge
Open labour market for researchers
Objectives
• Remove barriers to mobility (international and
inter-sectoral)
• Retain and attract leading talent to EU
• Make research careers more attractive
• Improve training and skills of researchers
• Improve human resources policies for
researchers
Open labour market for researchers
Actions
 Charter & Code, HR Strategy for Researchers
 Innovative doctoral training
 Open, transparent and merit-based
recruitment
 Pensions (RESAVER)
 EURAXESS
 Scientific visa package
Doctoral Training: what is the issue?
 Around 120,000 new PhD graduates per year in EU
 Only 45% of all researchers in EU in private sector (vs 78% in
US and 74% in Japan). One in ten PhDs report receiving
training in IPR/entrepreneurship*
 Strong structural barriers to inter-sectoral mobility: skills,
recruitment rules, transfer of social rights, difference of
culture in academia and companies, IPR, lack of incentives
etc
 Need skills to work outside academia
*Source: MORE II Study
Doctoral Training: what is in place?
 IDTPs
 MSC Actions
 EURAXESS Industry/Business
 H2020 Calls Support
Principles for Innovative Doctoral
Training Principles
(adopted by the ERA SGHRM and endorsed by Council)
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Research Excellence
Attractive Institutional Environment
Interdisciplinary Research Options
Exposure to industry and other relevant
employment sectors
International networking
Transferable skills training
Quality Assurance
In short: Doctoral Training should
become:« Triple i »
• International
• Interdisciplinary
• Intersectoral
- Common approach provides a ‘guiding tool’, while
preserving flexibility & autonomy for institutions and PhDs
- Study in 2013 showed wide uptake of principles
- Some barriers remain, e.g., with 'exposure to industry'
- Also general lack of funding, partly mitigated by Structural
Funds (already being used by a number of countries e.g. CY,
HU, BG, SK, EE, CZ as source of funding for doctoral training
programmes)
Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions (MCSA)
 "... Ensure excellent and innovative research training as
well as attractive career and knowledge-exchange
opportunities through cross-border and cross-sector
mobility of researchers to best prepare them to face current
and future societal challenges"
 Total budget: €6.2bn under H2020 (vs €4.7bn in FP7)
 65,000 researchers will be funded
 Around 25,000 PhDs will benefit
Research, networking,
training costs
1800 €
Management and
indirect costs
1200 €
Living allowance
3110 €
Mobility allowance
600 €
Family allowance
500 €
EURAXESS Industry/Business
A dedicated Industry tool has been launched as a pilot project by
EURAXESS Ireland and will soon be available on the revised
EURAXESS Portal to foster inter-sectoral mobility
2015 EURAXESS call for proposals
(H2020-SEAC-2015-1) -1,5 M€
The aim is to provide EURAXESS service centres with tools to
increase the use of the EURAXESS portals and services by the
industry sector through
 mapping of specific needs of the industry sector
 providing trainings, seminars, networking
 updating of national EURAXESS home pages
 providing special IT applications for the national EURAXESS
portals
EC Support through H2020 Calls
1. INSO- 4-015/ Innovation Schemes
innovation and science 2.0 covering:
for
open
a) "Inter-sectoral mobility + b) "Academia–business/Public /CSO
knowledge creation" actions
Aim: "support effective linkage for innovation between
universities and companies and other employment sectors"
2. New possible topics 'Institutions with Innovative
concepts' foreseen in H2020 covering :
a) Actions to increase and support mobility between industry and
academia + b) Provision of structured doctoral training based on
IDTPs
The ERA Roadmap (May 2015)
To achieve ERA Priority 3 “An open labour market for
researchers”, the consultation of MS + AC identified, as a
priority
Improving inter-sectoral mobility between public and
private sector research bodies in both directions and at
all career stages
Main conclusions of the SGHRM Report on
IDTPs
Member States, the Commission, and funding agencies are asked
to:
 Assure sustainable funding for the full implementation of the IDTP.
Special focus should be given to the use of Structural Funds for
doctoral training programmes
 Jointly devise a communication strategy
advantages of doing a 'Doctorate in Europe'
for
explaining
the
 Contribute to a listing of European, national and regional structures
for the exchange of experience on doctoral training and stimulate
this exchange at all levels in cooperation with existing stakeholder
organisations (on-going)