The Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences (SAGW) has published a report on the precarious situation of the non-professorial academic staff. Focus is being laid on post-docs in social sciences. Unfortunately, the report is in German – however, the management summary is available in German and French. Hildbrand, Thomas (2018): Next Generation: Für eine … Continued
Starting 1 February 2019, the SNF launches its new program SPIRIT: “The SPIRIT programme facilitates knowledge exchange between Swiss researchers and researchers in selected countries that are receiving development assistance. With SPIRIT, the SNSF is giving Swiss researchers more opportunities to collaborate with partners in many countries around the world.” International consortia can request between … Continued
Survey on the perceptions of working conditions and their impact on health. The results shed light on a number of difficulties encountered by the CCER. A large majority of the population interviewed mentioned a lack of time to carry out the tasks requested and specifications that did not correspond to reality. In addition to this … Continued
In fall 2017, the survey on the supervision practices at the ETH investigated supervision practices and doctoral students’ satisfaction. 1’594 doctoral students responded to the survey, which is a response rate of 36%. Survey conducted by AVETH (Academic Association of Scientific Staff at ETH Zürich). To the survey
How do you feel about your current job? What are your working conditions, your rights, your perspectives? Do you feel satisfied by your work-life balance? With the goal to understand these and other issues, Eurodoc launches today a survey on postdocs working in Europe. The survey will investigate the challenges postdocs are confronted with in … Continued
The EURODOC survey was prepared by the Doctoral Training Working Group (DTWG) to analyze the diverse landscape of doctorates across Europe. Countries covered: Croatia, Czech Republic, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovenia, Switzerland, Ukraine Link to the report
Eurodoc signs an open letter to the European Parliament to halt a copyright reform which is perceived as potentially harmful. It mainly criticizes Articles 11 and 13 which might further restrict access to scientific research and data which contradicts the EU’s ambitions in the field of Open Data and Open Science. Further Information: http://eurodoc.net/news/2018/eurodoc-signs-an-open-letter-to-european-parliament-to-halt-potentially-harmful-copyright Direct … Continued
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The associations of non-professorial academic staff of the University of Zurich (VAUZ) and the ETH Zurich (AVETH) have published three reports on the situation of their doctoral and postdoctoral students based on surveys at both universities. Please find the press releases and links to the reports here: VAUZ / AVETH
The Eurodoc conference 2018, which was organized in collaboration with FUURT, took place in Tampere on 18 and 19 April 2018. The conference’s main topics were mental health, equality with focus on mobility, open access, and new criteria for measuring excellence. Amongst the highly qualified PhD speakers were also representatives from industry and European education … Continued