Euroscience survey on working conditions and career development of Young Researchers
There is still a significant lack of comparable data in Europe on young researchers' situations. Supporting previous initiatives, Euroscience aims to fill the gap, focusing specifically on Young Researchers (master students, doctoral candidates and post-docs).With a questionnaire approach Euroscience would like to hear the Voice of Young Researchers on their career development thereby enhancing the knowledge about young researchers needs and helping to improve their situation.
Launching
The survey was launched April 16th 2012 and is still ongoing! Please tell the world! You can access the survey here:
https://www.research.net/s/N7HYGVN
Prize Draw
5 winners of the First Prize (a free registration to ESOF2012, worth 100€-375€ each) and 20 winners for the Second Prize (a free Euroscience momebership for 1 year, worth 25€-50€) were selected. The winners were e-mailed directly. To be fair, the Prize Draw option was removed July 18th at 14:00 CEST and a random number generator (www.randomnumbergenerator.com)to select the winners among 987 participants.
Preliminary Results
The preliminary results were shown and discussed at ESOF2012 at the session Opportunities and challenges for the next generation of European scholar. More information will soon be available here.
Impact
The preliminary results are published:
- in Science Career Blog:
http://blogs.sciencemag.org/sciencecareers/2012/07/preliminary-res.html
The preliminary results will be presented at:
- the Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) October 17-20, 2012 Copenhagen: http://www.4sonline.org/
- the Youth Conference on European Life Sciences Careers, 12th – 13th October 2012, Berlin: http://lscconference2012.yebn.eu/