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Symposium
Harmonious career paths: Interdisciplinary voyages
30. August 2012.Stresa, Italy
Content
• EURODOC• Interdisciplinarity Workgroup• Importance of interdisciplinarity• European successfull and unsuccessfull
experiences in interdisciplinarity Reasons to be afraid to venture to interdisciplinarity What can be done to make it easier for junior
researchers to effectively "voyage" through different disciplines?
• Discussion
EURODOC
EURODOC
• To represent doctoral candidates and junior researchers at the European level in matters of education, research, and professional development of their careers.• To advance the quality of doctoral programmes and the standards of research activity in Europe.• To promote the circulation of information on issues regarding young researchers; organize events, take part in debates and assist in the elaboration of policies about Higher Education and Research in Europe.• To establish and promote co-operation between national associations representing doctoral candidates and junior researchers within Europe.
Eurodoc mission statement
EURODOC
PARTNERS:• Eurodoc Web Site• Newsletter• E-mail Distribution• Annual Conference
EURODOC - structure
BoardBoard
SecretariatSecretariat
Council / General MeetingCouncil / General Meeting
WorkgroupsWorkgroups
MembersObservers
IndividualObservers
Career development
Gender equality
Interdisciplinarity
MobilityPolicy research
GovernanceFinanceCommunication
Disabilities
Employment and social security
Interdisciplinarity Workgroup
Interdisciplinarity Workgroup
• The main objectives are:
To facilitate discussions about the design of interdisciplinary studies and
research.
To analyze carrier structures.
To monitor main trends and key issues in this area.
Interdisciplinarity Workgroup
• DONE: Workshop in Eurodoc Strasbourg
inspired delegates of Lithuanian Society of Young Researchers to make a conference about interdisciplinarity: Interdisciplinarity: how to make it work.
Work-Group applied to organise a workshop in ESOF 2012 - not accepted.
Two research proposals:1.Comparison of possibilities of young researchers and doctorate students in fields of science.2.Involvement of doctoral candidates and early stage researchers in policy making in Europe.Workshop by ESF: The Good The Bad and The Ugly.
Eurodoc contributions to ERA - statement concerning the role of the Arts and Humanities.
Interdisciplinarity Workgroup
• KEY INTERESTESTS AT THE MOMENT:
Interdisciplinary mobility.
T-shaped versus "all in one" interdisciplinary specialization.
Preparing workshop at AGM 2013.
Participating in planning of Lithuanian EU presidency conference 2013.
Interdisciplinarity Workgroup
• PROBLEMS:
Weak career structures Evaluation Training Funding Tradition/ideological barriers Classification Institutional clustering/organizational fragmentation National cocooning
Successful stories
1. Case Study
• Interdisciplinary Grants
• The Global Grant application Expert: “Even though the Applicant presents
Technical Sciences, he applies as the representative of Social sciences and humanities.”
• “Scientists’ Initiative” Grant Expert: “No, it is not – you mention
organizational practice, so your work belongs to social sciences.”
Vladislav: “The aim of my work is to develop terminology of socio-material management in English and Lithuanian languages.”
Expert: “The stated aims do not lead to any important scientific nor practical results.”
Vladislav: “Contribution to the field so far” Expert: “The real contribution can’t be seen.”
• Criteria:1. Has the proposed project potential for
scientific excellence?
2. Is the proposed project novel, creative and original?
3. What is the innovation potential and impact of the project?
4. How well conceived, organized and state-of-the-art is the proposed activity?
5. Does the project have a reasonable chance of succeeding and what difficulties can be expected?
6. What are the achievements made by the applicants in the research field(s) of the proposed project? Are they competent to conduct the work?
7. Are the requested resources adequate?
8. How novel is the combination of disciplines and what is the scientific added value of the proposed interdisciplinary collaboration with respect to the combined contributions from the partners?
1. Case Study
• Interdisciplinary Grants • Conference Grant • Vladislav: “Annual EURAS conference brings together members of
different academic communities, as well as members of regional and national government/governance
institutions and companies.” Expert: “Your conference is not an academic event, because it is
dedicated to industry participants and representatives of European and international standardization
organizations…”
• Lithuanian Long-Term Science Development Strategy (Section IV. The Mission of the State):
• 12…. The State’s long term development strategy, based on EU’s Lisbon (2000) resolution recognizes these important aspects of Research & Science development:…
• 12.3. … create opportunities for collaboration between science and business/industry…”
2. Case Study
• Teresa: Center on Theories and Practices that Overcome inequalities
• Dialogue throughout all the research process across disciplines
Knowledge from the scientific community
Interpretations from social actors
Immigrant
Researcher
Person with disability
Researcher
Non-academic woman
Romani woman
2. Case Study
• The Dialogic Inclusion Contract
• Evidences from Scientific Community
• Actions which have obtained success in other places
Developing policies to extend the succesful actions to all social fields.
Dialogue with the subjects
Successful actions
Recreate successful actions in their context
INVOLVEMENT OF POLICY MAKERS
• Achievements:•Recognition of the Roma in the Spanish Parliament September 2005
•Successful educational actions:
• Improvements in the school: reduction of absenteeism from 2006 to 2009
•School parents work as basketball coaches
Motivation (MORE)
• ‘Career progression goals’ and ‘personal research agenda’ were the top-ranked motivations for mobility among the ‘academic’ researchers, especially important for the EU-US mobility group.
• Profession-related motives were more important as drivers of mobility than as motivations for mobility, and as drivers of EU-US mobility rather than of US-EU mobility.
• While personal motivations are driving non-mobility, profession related motivations appear to drive mobility.
• What are the motivations to become an interdisciplinarian?
• M1 – EU → US• M2 – US → EU• M3 – other• M4 – non-mobile group
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