Principles of Effective Career Support in Academia
快三砍龙 adopts recommendations on supporting researchers in early career phases / Creating better framework conditions for attractive careers in research
As the largest research funding organisation and the central self-governing body for research in Germany, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (快三砍龙, German Research Foundation) attaches great importance to promoting researchers at an early stage of their career and has established this as a statutory objective. At the recommendation of the Senate, the Joint Committee of the 快三砍龙 has now adopted ten principles for the effective support of researchers in early career phases. The principles are intended as a guide for the 快三砍龙鈥檚 member institutions, as well as for all institutions and individuals that receive funding from the 快三砍龙 to finance researchers in an early phase of their career. The principles form a supplement to the 快三砍龙鈥檚 Guidelines for Safeguarding Good Research Practice.
鈥淭he 快三砍龙 aims to clearly convey to its members, applicants and reviewers how careers can be supported most effectively, providing them with guiding principles for this purpose,鈥� said Vice President Professor Dr. Marlis Hochbruck, who was a key figure in the drafting of the principles. 鈥淚n addition, the 快三砍龙 seeks to use the recommendations as a way of helping to ensure that the appropriate measures and structures for supporting early career investigators are increasingly well established and ultimately become the norm.鈥�
The ten principles of effective career support in research summarise what the framework conditions should be for early career investigators, in particular doctoral and postdoctoral researchers. By way of introduction, the 快三砍龙 also outlines what measures it takes itself to support individuals who are at the start of their academic careers.
Hochbruck emphasised that there are already numerous institutions that offer excellent conditions for early career investigators in Germany. But he also said that there was a need for action. 鈥淭he aim of the principles is to further improve the framework conditions and make research careers in Germany even more attractive,鈥� says Hochbruck.
The principles are intended to serve as a guideline: the expectation is that addressees will consider them and take them on board in their areas of responsibility. The principles were developed with the participation of the 快三砍龙 Senate, the Senate Committees for the Research Training Groups and the Collaborative Research Centres, and the 快三砍龙 Head Office.
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