In 2005, the European Commission issued the European Charter for Researchers and a Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. These two documents, addressed to researchers as well as research employers and funders in both the public and private sectors, are key elements in the EU's policy to boost researchers' careers.
In December 2017, the ICP endorsed the 40 principles of the 'European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers' and it is committed to implement a new Human Resources Strategy for Researchers (HRS4R) according to this Charter and Code.
From January to October 2017, the ICP HRS4R Implementation Committee and Working Group performed an internal Gap Analysis and planned 25 initiatives to improve our human resources policies. These initiatives were described in the ICP Action Plan that was presented to the European Comission in November 2017.
The HR Excellence in Research was granted to the ICP in March 2018. Throughout 2019 and 2020, multiple documents were elaborated in the framework of theHRS4R Action Plan implementation. On April 2020, an interim assessment report was submitted to EURAXESS to evaluate the level of ambition and the quality of progress in HRS4R implementation at the ICP. The document provided a detailed review of the whole implementation process of the various principles included in the Charter & Code, as well as the degree of compliance of the different actions stated in the Action Plan and the OTM-R policy. In July 2023, the ICP began facing the renewal phase, which concluded in 2025 with the on-site visite of the European Comission assessors.
While the visit of the HRS4R assessors had not yet taken place, the ICP began working on the new Action Plan for the 2024–2028 period, which is linked below.
Related documents:
- Declaration of Endorsement of Charter & Code
- ICP Action Plan (2018-2023)
- OTMr Policy
- Report on Interim Assessment (Sept 2020)
- Updated ICP Action Plan (July 2023)
- ICP Action Plan (2024-2028)
All the public documents developed under the Action Plan can be found in the different submenus of the transparency menu.
