Human Resources Programme

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Human Resources Programme

• Executive Agency for Higher Education and
  research Funding
• Adrian Curaj
• Director General

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Research is the transformation of Money into
Knowledge Innovation is the transformation
of Knowledge into Money All driven by
skills and energy of PEOPLE
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• Key Challenges
• Quality and availability of researchers in
  Romania the European added value
• A continuous Knowledge Flow Researchers
  mobility, as a continuum process of brain drain,
  brain gain, brain circulation inter and intra
  sectors, cross country, across borders the
  European added value

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• Response to the Challenges
• - Support for professional career development
• PhD students
• stipendium / fellowships synergy with PO-HRD
• small research grants avoiding the drop rate,
  develop managerial capacity
• PostDoc funding schemes Attract the most
  promising young researchers to locate their
  research group in Romania
• PostDoc Return Grant brain gain/brain
  circulation
• First PostDoc Grant avoid brain drain develop
  managerial capacity
• First PostDoc grant as research team
  coordinator
• attractiveness of research career develop
  managerial capacity
• Researchers of excellence Attract well establish
  researchers to locate their research team in
  Romania brain gain/brain circulation/
  internationalization of research

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• Response to the Challenges
• - Support for professional career development
• Researchers mobility
• inter and intra sectorial knowledge flow
• conferences international cooperation
  /collaboration /flow of researchers joint
  research projects
• Reward for
• publishing in ISI Journals
• patents
• Internationalization of Romanian research, by
  ensuring the equal
• access of the foreign researchers Next step
  co-fund scheme in PEOPLE
• program