Launch of the ESFRI Roadmap 2018
On 11 September 2018, the ESFRI Chair G. Rossi presented officially the 2018 ESFRI Roadmap on Large Scale Research Infrastructures during a half-day conference in Vienna. In total, six new infrastructures for the thematic sections on energy, environment, health care and nutrition, and also social and cultural innovation have been incorporated in the Roadmap. The current Roadmap 2018 contains now 18 ESFRI projects.
Since the ESFRI Roadmap was first started in 2006, 37 ESFRI research infrastructures have been evaluated as so called “landmarks”. These are research infrastructures that are being implemented already. Furthermore, the roadmap identifies two thematic sections with great strategic potential for the development of new research infrastructures: religious sciences and digital services for social sciences.
The ERC Work Programme 2019 published
The four main ERC frontier research grants will be available under Work Programme 2019. Starting, Consolidator, Advanced, and Synergy Grants. ERC Principal Investigators will continue to be able to apply for Proof of Concept Grants.
This Work Programme introduces the possibility for one Principal Investigator in a Synergy Grant Group to be based anywhere in the world, including outside the territory of the European Union (EU) Member States and Associated Countries. In addition, Work Programme 2019 will pilot the award of Proof of Concept grants on the basis of a lump sum of EUR 150 000.
RESAVER - supplementary pension solution for researchers
Researchers – moving between different jobs and countries - risk losing their pension. The European Commission tries to tackle this problem.
RESAVER is a dynamic, state-of-the-art, pan-European pension solution that aims at enhancing the mobility of researchers. It enables employees to remain affiliated to the same supplementary pension fund when moving between different countries and changing jobs. At the same time, RESAVER helps research organisations attracting and retaining the best researchers while benefitting from an efficient management of pension plans and lower overhead cost. Read the full article here.
