First Polish e-learning platform

The Ministry of Science and Higher Education, together with the Young Science Foundation (Fundacja Nauki Polskej – FNP) and partners, 30th October launched the first Polish educational platform of the Polish MOOC. The platform is a reliable and free source of knowledge available online for everyone, regardless of age and place of residence. More on the NCBiR website – link .
Link to the POLISH MOOK educational platform – here.

IUNG registred in SciVal database

From October 2018, IUNG-PIB as a separate unit is included in the SciVal Elsevier platform. Currently, the database contains over 8,500 research institutions from 220 countries around the world. The tool is free of charge and allows you to prepare reports on:

  • total employee achievements,
  • calculating the “snowball index”,
  • analysis of the impact on a selected field of science
  • and many other combinations of the individual and individual employees.

Link to the IUNG-PIB website on SciVal:

https://www.scival.com/overview/summary?uri=Institution/709587

OTM-R training in IUNG-PIB

On September 12, 2018, in the INCBR IUNG-PIB seminar room, training for members of the management, the Scientific Council of IUNG-PIB, managers and all persons involved in the recruitment process at IUNG-PIB took place. The presentation presents essential issues regarding the REPORT of the WORKING GROUP of the STEERING GROUP OF HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT under the EUROPEAN RESEARCH AREA on Open, Transparent and Merit-based Recruitment of Researchers.

Training presentation – download (POL).

HRS4R work group meeting – 31.08.2018

On 31 August 2018, the next meeting of The IUNG-PIB implementation working group for the HR Strategy for Researchers and the policy of open and transparent recruitment processes (OTM-R) took place.

The meeting discusses the results of the independent experts’ evaluation sent on 22 August 2018 by the European Commission (interim assessment), regarding the 24-month implementation period of The HR Strategy for researchers (HRS4R) by IUNG-PIB.

The team analysed the state of activities planned in HRS4R for next years, including those which could not be implemented so far due to the lack of dedicated funds in the Institute’s budget (implementation of the anti-plagiarism system). Also agreed was the activities allowing for the establishment of an internal audit group that would monitor the Working Group’s activities on an ongoing basis and their compliance with the provisions of the Charter, the Code and the OTM-R principles.

Horizon 2020

Horizon 2020 (H2020) is the framework program established by the European Commission as a tool to finance research and innovation activities. The Grant Agreements are contracts signed between beneficiaries and the Commission. The signature of these contracts, will determine beneficiaries commitments. The responsabilities, as a result of the management of human resources in research, will be covered in the AMGA article 32 under the title “Hiring and work conditions for researchers”. Particularly, this article shows beneficiaries must take necessary measures in order to implement the principles of the Letter for researchers and the Conduct Code to hire researchers, the so called Charter&Code. Read More