A partnership for excellence

In May 2008, the European Commission published a
Communication entitled Better careers and more
mobility:a European Partnership for Researchers
(COM (2008)317) to create a framework for joint
priority actions.

The Commission plans to conclude a three-year
‘partnership for researchers’ with the Council and
Member States.

Four priority points were selected for national
action plans:

• systematically open recruitment;
• meeting the social security and supplementary
  pensions needs of mobile researchers;
• providing attractive employment and working
  conditions; and
• enhancing the training, skills and experience of researchers.

Flanders also contributes to the European Partnership for Researchers.

Click here for details of the Flemish action plan (in Dutch).