In a communication presented on May 27, 2008, the European Commission seeks to establish a partnership with the Member States to make the EU more attractive to researchers and improve their mobility in the countries, universities and the private sector. The purpose of future actions is to revise recruitment procedures, meet the social security and pensions needs of mobile researchers, and provide fair employment and working conditions. (Ref. 080435)
Because of a steady European labor market, the communication points out, controlled by short-term contracts of employment and advancement based on seniority rather than performance, many researchers move outside of the EU. Thus, in 2004, “of the nearly 400,000 foreign researchers in the US an estimated 100,000 were born in the EU. This is a significant proportion of the total EU researchers’ population of 1.3 million,” the Commission worries. This loss is even more bothering since global compet
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