Towards an integrated national
policy on Human Resources in
Research and Innovation
Dr. Vassiliki PLETSA
General Secretariat for Research And Technology
International S & T Cooperation Directorate
European Union Division
MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, LIFE LONG LEARNING AND RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS
National Strategic Research and
Innovation Framework 2010-1015
 Education, Research, Innovation
 National Research Area to combat fragmentation and
further enhance links between universities and research
centres, establish sustainable cross-talk between
academia and the productive sector (adressing mainly
SMEs to enhance Innovation)
 Human Resources and
 Excellence and Collaboration in the heart of the reform
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The public research sector
Main Obstacles
 Legal reforms are implemented slowly
 Lack of entrepreneurial spirit in the Greek research community.
 Bureaucratic and time-consuming management system
 Incompatibility between the supply and demand of employment in
the research – technology - innovation sector
 Public effort in the area of R&D is spread in many sectors,
organizations and groups not attaining the critical mass that would
have brought results.
Main Instruments
• Long term research programmes (reflecting national priorities,
combatible with the ERA and major societal challenges)
• Increase GERD/GDP to 2% by 2020 as the Gross Domestic
Expenditure on Research and Technological Development (GERD)
as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) remains low
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(0,6%),
The Private Sector
Incentives for private investment in research and structures
promoting innovation
• Law 3296/2004 economic incentives to enterprises, deduction of
RTD expenditure from profits of private firms
• Investment Incentives Law 3299/2004
• 5 Regional Innovation Poles, Innovation zone in Thessaloniki,
Hellenic Technology Cluster Initiatives in the Micro-electronics
sector, Spin-off companies
 The business sector remains the weakest part of the Greek RTD
system (BERD/GERD ~ 0.20%)
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The Human Resources Issue in the context of the
National Strategic Research and Innovation
Framework 2010-1015
Main Goals
 Encourage a career in research
 Encourage researchers’ mobility
 Avoid brain drain, attract excellent researchers from abroad
Main Instruments in the context of the National Strategic Research
and Innovation Framework 2010-1015
 Doctoral and Post-doctoral fellowship programmes
 Incoming researchers grants
 Inter- and Intra-sectoral Mobility programmes
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The Human Resources Issue
Two Research Centres NHRF and CERTH in close collaboration with
the GSRT have promoted the Researchers Mobility Issues in
Greece:
 The National Hellenic Research Foundation, CERTH, the University
of Crete and the University of Ioannina have undersigned the
principles of the Charter&Code
 Considerable increase in the number of job vacancies published in
the EURAXESS Jobs portal
 Transposition of EU Directive 2005/71 for admitting third country
nationals for the purposes of scientific research
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THE I-SEEMob EUROPEAN PROJECT
(Coordinator:GSRT, Mr. G. Adamopoulos,
g.adamopoulos@gsrt.gr, 2107458113)
Enhancing inter-sectoral mobility of researchers in South-Eastern Europe
The I-SEEMob project aims at contributing to the enhancement of the
career development of R&D personnel in ERA by examining the
existing legal and research policy gaps hampering the inter-sectoral
mobility of R&D personnel in the South-Eastern European Countries
participating in the consortium and, accordingly, provide
recommendations and guidelines to the respective governments so as
to raise the remaining obstacles and promote intersectoral mobility and
the career development of researchers
Development of a set of policy recommendations to the national
governments for improving and supporting the inter-sectoral mobility
of R&D personnel and, thus, enhancing their career development.
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Specific Programme “PEOPLE”
• “People” is a specific programme within the 7th Framework
Programme and its basic objectives are to improve, both
qualitatively and quantitatively, the professional opportunities
available to researchers in Europe.
• This programme mobilises extensive financial resources and draws
on experience gained through the Marie Curie actions.
• More specifically, the focus is on the following three areas:
- generating benefits and structuring effects, for example by
introducing co-funding for regional, national and international
programmes;
- improving conditions for training and career development in the
private sector;
- strengthening the international dimension.
• The budget required for executing this specific programme is
estimated at EUR 4 750 million for the period from 1 January
2007 to 31 December 2013.
ERA Steering Group on Human Resources and
Mobility
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In September 2008, the Competitiveness Council adopted Council
Conclusions affirming its commitment to the implementation of a European
Partnership for Researchers, based on the Communication "Better
careers and more mobility: a European partnership for researchers" of
May 2008 . The Council also recognised that the "Steering Group on
Human Resources and Mobility", being active since 2002, would be the
most appropriate forum for conducting this partnership in a flexible manner,
Therefore, the group has been relaunched and has been the structure to
promote, monitor and report on the implementation of the Researchers'
Partnership at EU and national levels and on other on-going researchersrelated activities,
The Steering Group on Human Resources and Mobility (SGHRM) member
provides information on the overall plans devised at national level for the
implementation of the Researchers' Partnership and reports regularly on the
actions undertaken or envisaged to execute these plans, as well as on
developments regarding other ongoing researchers-related activities.
The Greek ERA Steering Group on Human
Resources and Mobility (as of January 2011)
• National Representative :
Prof. Philomela Komnhnoy,
komnhnoy@auth.gr, +302310998195
• Deputy National Representative:
Dr. Vassiliki Pletsa,
vpletsa@gsrt.gr, +302107458096