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Scientific Exchange Programme between the New
Member States of the EU and Switzerland Sciex-NMSc
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• Euraxess Annual Meeting in Potsdam
• 16th of March 2009
• Johanna Ziberi
• Bridgehead Euraxess
• Charter and Code Promoter Switzerland
• Coordinator Sciex

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Framework for the Scientific Exchange Programme
Sciex-NMSch
The enlargement of the European Union (EU)
represents a major step towards securing peace,
stability and prosperity in Europe. To support
this process, the Swiss Parliament has decided to
finance a contribution to the reduction of
economic and social disparities in the enlarged
European Union. Eight of the new Member States
have decided that scientific cooperation, and in
particular scholarships, are to be part of the
Swiss contribution. The resulting scientific
exchange programme is open to all factulties and
sciences. PARTICIPATING STATES CZ, EE, HU, LT,
LV, PL, SK, SI DURATION 2009 - 2016 BUDGET a
total of CHF 29,08 Mio is available for the
programme INFORMATION www.sciex.ch
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Support Structure
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Composition of the Swiss Steering Committee
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Sciex-NMSch and the Sciex-Code
Sciex and its related instruments are all based
on Charter and Code!
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Time Schedule
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The Sciex Spirit ? Immerse into a new Scientific
Culture

• Sciex-NMSch Researchers are not guests but they
  get on a temporary basis
• responsibilities
• duties
• rights
• As a researcher working permanently in
  Switzerland.

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Two Sciex-NMSch Researchers Categories

• Junior Researchers
• Fellowships, reserved for promising graduate and
  postgraduate NMS Researchers (no age
  restriction).
• Aims Doctoral Degree or postdoctoral research.
• Duration between a minimum of 6 and a maximum of
  18 (for postDocs) and 24 (for Doctoral
  Candidates) months.
• Senior Researchers
• Short Term Visits, open to Senior Researchers
  from the NMS and Switzerland (no age
  restriction).
• Aims establish a cooperation, visit a Junior
  Researcher and to discuss a follow-up project.
• Duration Up to five days

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Budget and Number of Grants
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Sciex-NMSch Programme Objectives
1 Develop individual researchers' capacities
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Sciex-NMSch Programme Objectives
2 Foster scientific progress and innovations
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Sciex-NMSch Programme Objectives
3 Establish or enhance networks between
researchers
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Sciex-NMSch Flow of Junior Researchers Proposal
forms
Main Applicant (JR)
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Preparation of Sciex-NMSch Junior Researchers
Proposal Forms
Performance Agreement of the Host Institution
Proposal
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Form 1 Sciex-NMSch Junior Researcher

• Required by the Junior Researcher / Eligibility
  Criteria
• Level B2 English, very good marks for the
  previous Degree
• 2 recommendations by Senior Researchers SR
• Formally correct and complete application dossier
• Data subject to the Scoring by a Scoring
  Committee
• Scientific project (summary and
  SR-recommendations)
• Track record of scientific and non scientific
  experiences publications / presentations /
  conferences / teaching mobility/working
  experiences language competences social
  commitment etc.

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Forms 2a/2b Sciex-NMSch Senior Researchers

• Recommendation to the Junior Researcher
• Description of the scientific cooperation project
  with the partner
• Track record of personal scientific and mentoring
  experience
• Links to the Partner State / date for the visit
  of the partner
• Specification Sheet for the Junior Researcher
  (Cahier de charges / Pflichtenheft) as part of a
  future employment contract and to define the
  objectives (ev. Joint Degree?) of the research
  stay

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Forms 3a/3b Sciex-NMSch Home and Host Departments

• 3a Home Department
• Confirmation of Follow Up to the Project (Home
  Coming of the Junior Researcher)
• 3b Host Department
• Agreement to the Project

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Form 4a/4b Sciex-NMSch Institutions

• Requirements to Home Institutions
• Have to be defined by partner states - list
  provided by National Coordination Units
• Requirements to the Swiss Host Institutions
• Performance Agreement as defined by the Steering
  Committee
• Performance of a clearly defined scoring process
  (? Code of Conduct)
• Performance of a clearly defined financial and
  reporting mechanism
• Membership in ? Swiss Charter and Code Supporters
  Network

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Sciex-NMSch Scoring System ? Code of Conduct for
the Recruitment
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A Two-Dimensional Concept of Objectives and
Domains
Recruitment
Training and Skills
Working Conditions
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Dimensions and prospective Instruments
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The Sciex Code Instruments (work in progress)

• ? Recruitment
• Performance agreements for Scoring Committees
• List of Indicators Mobility/job experience
  languages etc.
• List of expertise of Scoring Committee members
• Training of Scoring Committee members
• ? Training and Skills
• Joint Degree Agreements
• Doctoral Programmes
• Modules
• ? Working Conditions
• Competitive Salary and Social Security System
• Specification Sheets
• Agreements with the Offices for Migration

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Extract from the Performance Agreement with Swiss
Host Institutions on Scoring Committees
(...) 15. The Host Scoring Committee (i.e. the
Research Commission and a panel for the scoring
of the social competences) adheres to the
principles set out in the Code of Conduct for
the Recruitment of Researchers when scoring the
proposals of researchers. 16. The Scoring
Committee brings together diverse expertise and
competences (i.e. expertise on scoring scientific
and social competences) and has an adequate
gender balance and, where appropriate and
feasible, includes members from different
sectors (public and private) and disciplines and
with relevant experience to assess the candidate.
Members of the Scoring Committee should be
adequately trained. (...)
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Training and Skills of Researchers Agreements on
Joint Degrees with a Dual Focus

• Scientific Skills as learned by doing an original
  Research project
• Transferable Skills (social competences,
  networking skills)

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Transferable Skills

• As recommended by the European Commission in its
  Communication of 2008
• Manage intellectual property
• Bid for project funding
• Manage projects
• Handle the companys communication
• Latest techniques and methods

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Working Conditions

• ? Immersion into a different Scientific Culture
• Researchers on a scientific exchange are not
  guests but,
• they get on a temporary basis
• responsibilities
• duties
• rights
• As any other researcher working permanently in
  the country.
• Employment Contract Specification Sheet Trial
  Period Standard Salary
• Social Security ? Social taxes
• Taxes
• Participation in researchers committees at the
  employing institution

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Sciex-NMSch
Thank you for your attention and welcome to
Switzerland!
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