ETUCE encourages the higher
education and research institutions
to sign the European Charter and
Code of Conduct for the Recruitment
of Researchers
At the occasion of the celebration of the 10th anniversary
of the European Charter for Researchers and the
Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers,
ETUCE encourages the higher education and research
institutions to sign the Charter and Code of Conduct
for the Recruitment of Researchers.
ETUCE, the European Region of Education International,
the global union of educational employees,
including researchers in the public and private sectors,
has been supporting the main goals of the European
Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct
for the Recruitment of Researchers. Among others,
ETUCE underlines the positive message of the Charter
and Code of Conduct to ensure in particular stability
and permanence of employment, gender balance,
career development, career advice, value of mobility,
and intellectual property rights for the researchers in
Europe.
A foreword-looking strategy on the use and implementation
of the Charter and Code of Conduct
for Researchers is needed. Unfortunately, there is
more to be done for the implementation of the Charter
and Code of Conduct as still only a minority of
higher education institutions and research institutes
in Europe have endorsed the Charter and Code
of Conduct. Several institutions signed the Charter
and Code of Conduct but they do not follow them, as
they do not consider the researchers as employees.
ETUCE’s Policy Paper on Early Stage Researchers /
Doctoral Candidates (2014) underlines the “status of
the early stage researchers /doctoral candidates as
employees, with all the social and professional rights
of other employees.”
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