Dr. rer. nat. Sebastian Dahle, dolgoletni član Mlade akademije in trenutni podpredsednik našega krovnega združenja Eurodoc, je oktobra za revijo Nature podal izjavo o manifestu za raziskovalke in raziskovalce na začetku kariere, ki ga je pripravila Initiative for Science in Europe. Manifest z naslovom Europe supports early research careers and stimulating research workplaces prepoznava neugodne delovne razmere na zgodnjih stopnjah raziskovalne kariere in poziva k vzdržnemu financiranju, spremembi vrednotenja raziskovalne dejavnosti, izboljšanju akademske kulture ter izboljšanju prehodnosti iz akademske sfere v druge sektorje, kot so industrija, javni sektor in nevladne organizacije.
Sebastianova izjava:
Sebastian Dahle, a physicist at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia, says he hopes that the manifesto will accelerate efforts to improve the working lives of junior researchers. Support systems that early-career scientists need to empower them to develop professionally have evaporated across Europe, says Dahle, who is vice-president of the European Council of Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers, another signatory of the manifesto. “This is something,” he says of the support systems, “that has worsened over the last decade.”
Več o pomenu manifesta si lahko preberete v prispevku A road map aims to improve the lives of junior scientists in Europe med kariernimi novicami revije Nature.