Career Management Services for European Talents - CROSS

Recognising the opportunities that ResearchComp offers, CROSS intends to leverage ResearchComp, and contribute to wider implementation of ResearchComp and the new Charter for Researchers by:

• Developing a career support toolbox for broad use across European countries, piloted in four specific ecosystems.

  • (1) Provide researchers with a self-assessment tool to evaluate their transversal skills, identifying both strengths and gaps.

  • (2) Train career advisors to assist researchers in creating personalised career tracks based on the aforementioned self-assessment.

  • (3) Provide access to mentoring services to ease the transition beyond academia.

  • (5) Highlight concrete career options that further increase researchers’ chances of pursuing opportunities beyond academia.

• Promoting organizational change by establishing an HRS4R Repository and support network for institutions fostering the implementation of the New Charter for Researchers.

• Building intersectoral networks at local, national and cross-border, centered around academic institutions piloting and implementing the CROSS career support toolbox.

  Both the career support toolbox and the intersectoral networks are leveraged by an international ResearchComp Community of Practice, connecting stakeholders from various sectors around the ResearchComp. The career support toolbox and the HRS4R Repository together form comprehensive career management services for institutions, representing a key output of CROSS.

RESOURCES:

Self-Assessment Competence Tool: CROSS will focus on piloting and dissemination of a Self-Assessment Competence Tool for researchers of all career stages based on ResearchComp.

• A pilot initiative will establish links with labour market demands.

• The Tool will be supported by career advisors, who will be trained on its use and empowered to guide researchers at all career stages through the self-assessment process, helping them in identifying personalised career paths. A strengthened cooperation with the local EURAXESS offices shall provide the researcher with further recommendations for specific career options.

• The Tool will feature a functionality that recommends transversal skills training opportunities.

• The Tool will be supplemented by a detailed roadmap for comprehensive transversal skills training programmes tailored to RPOs, based on the ResearchComp framework.

ResearchComp Community of Practice: CROSS aims at leveraging ResearchComp as an instrument supporting researchers´ careers via establishment of a sustainable ResearchComp Community of Practice that will serve as a virtual network, connecting stakeholders to exchange best practices for promoting and implementing the ResearchComp Framework. This network aims to enhance engagement among RPOs and other stakeholders by fostering collaboration through a unique, specialised focus and it will also complement and further strengthen EURAXESS efforts. The ResearchComp CoP shall operate Europe-wide, connecting partners from European countries on one single virtual platform, and cross-sectoral, connecting stakeholders from various sectors, involving public and private RPOs, business and industry, non-profit sector and policymakers.

Organisational change - fostering HRS4R: CROSS intends to foster organisational change towards mainstreaming the new Charter for Researchers´ principles by:

• Providing support to institutions preparing for application for HR Award or implementing an action plan by creating an HRS4R Repository of resources.

• Exchanging best practices regarding the implementation of the European framework to attract and retain research, innovation and entrepreneurial talents in Europe, as well as the new Charter for Researchers.