Report on ESOF session

1. NEW CONCEPTS OF MOBILITY
TO FOSTER CAREER
DEVELOPMENT AND GENDER
BALANCE IN EUROPE
Maria BOSTENARU DAN, Maria Manuela NOGUEIRA

2. ESOF 2014

3. Maria BOSTENARU DAN (MCFA)
Maria Manuela NOGUEIRA (ESF)
Organisers

4. Programme
 Welcome by the moderator (Beate Scholz)
 Presentations
 Round tables
 Conclusion

5. Presentations
 European policy and researcher mobility
 Conor O’Carroll • Chair of European
Research Area (ERA) Steering Group on Human
Resources and Mobility
 The role of virtual mobility
 Laura Marin • Swedish Research Council
 Intersectoral mobility for women
 Gianna Avellis • MCFA

6. Round tables

7. Appraisal of different mobility
concepts
Chairs and Rapporteurs
Gianna Avellis • MCFA
Antonella di Trapani • MCFA
Maria Manuela Nogueira • ESF
Round table 1 (3 tables)

8. Appraisal of different mobility
concepts – lead questions
 How do research funders and universities
handle different mobility concepts in
peer review or appointment?
 What are individual researchers’
experiences?
 Are there any examples of promising
practice that others might learn from?

9. Appraisal of different mobility
concepts – findings
 Partnership issues – dual careers. When
it is easier to move first and when it is
easier to remain?
 agencies
 Cultural and societal prejudices
 Role models can help
 Intersectorial and virtual mobility can
be an alternative for women to geographic
mobility

10. Mobility patterns by women researchers
Chairs and Rapporteurs
Maria Bostenaru Dan • MCFA
Riia Chmielowski • MCFA
Magdalini Theodoridou • MCFA
Round table 2 (3 tables)

11. Mobility patterns by women
researchers – lead questions
 Which opportunities and challenges do
women researchers face as a consequence
of different mobility patterns?
 What should research organisations do in
order to provide equal playing fields?
 How could women researchers benefit from
intersectoral mobility?

12. Mobility patterns by women
researchers – findings
 Many times geographical mobility
 Difficulties in interdisciplinary and
intersectorial mobility
 Necessity to prepare for different career
paths
 Necessity to recognise in peer review
 Good practices in Finland

13. Virtual mobility
Chairs and Rapporteurs
Laura Marin • Swedish Research Council
Conor O’Carroll • Chair of ERA
Steering Group on Human Resources and
Mobility
Cornelia Soetbeer • Volkswagen
Stiftung
Round table 3 (3 tables)

14. Virtual mobility lead questions
 How could virtual mobility be supported
at best?
 What are, ideally, the outcomes of
virtual mobility?
 In which way could virtual mobility be
adequately appraised in peer review or
selection procedures?

15. Virtual mobility - findings
 Necessity of internet
 Necessity of short visits
 Problems in acknowledging in evaluation
 Inclusive
 Co-tutelle

16. Read the detailed outcomes in the
document prepared by the ESF
http://www.esf.org/uploads/media/2014-
06-22_New-Concepts-of-Mobility_Session-
Summary.pdf
Conclusions

17. Nature correspondence on virtual mobility
Read a copy at
http://www.esf.org/uploads/media/Nature_Correspondence_v511_n7509_01.pdf
Further echo

18. http://www.esof.eu/home.html
Call open!
Science for policy and policy for science
- Research careers
Good bye ESOF 2014, welcome
ESOF 2016

19. ESOF opening session
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