The European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers are European Commission documents aimed at ensuring the same rights for researchers, regardless of the fact in which European state they are employed. The European Charter defines the rights and obligations of researchers and organisations where they work. The Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers addresses the equality of the employment process for all researchers in Europe and the increase in the transparency of the recruitment and employment process.

The Code and the Charter for Researchers relate to all researchers in the European Union at all stages of their careers and cover all fields of research in the public and private sectors, irrespective of the nature of their appointment or employment, the legal status of their employer or the type of organisation or establishment in which they work.

Recognising its own goals and visions in the principles of the Charter and the Code for Researchers, the University of Dubrovnik, as early as January 2011, adopted the documents Internal Analysis and the Human Resources Strategy for Researchers with the respective action plan for the following five-year period. By adopting these documents, the University has thus undertaken to comply with the principles and procedures of the Charter and the Code for Researchers in all its future research-related activities. Based on an evaluation of the above-mentioned documents, in the same year, i.e. in 2011, the European Commission awarded the University of Dubrovnik with recognition for its excellence in implementing the principles of the Charter and the Code for Researchers – the HR Excellence in Research Award.

It is of utmost importance for the University of Dubrovnik to continue to hold this important excellence recognition. This is why the University is currently undergoing a re-accreditation process for this award. A new working group has been appointed. It first analysed the current situation concerning the implementation of the principles of the Charter and the Code for Researchers and then compiled the following new documents: the Human Resources Strategy for Researchers at the University of Dubrovnik for the period 2024 – 2027 with the respective action plan.

Continued implementation of the principles of the European Charter and Code for Researchers and activities referred to in the above documents will ensure the following:

• Increase in the attractiveness of the University as a desirable scientific and research institution;
• Increase in the visibility of the University of Dubrovnik within the European Research Area (ERA) and on the international level;
• Establishment of an attractive, open and sustainable European labour market for researchers and conditions that enable employing and keeping top researchers in environments that foster top-quality work and productivity.

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The European Charter for Researchers

Human resources Strategy for researchers at the University of Dubrovnik 2024 – 2027

OTM-R Policy

Foreign Researchers Guide to Croatia

Human resources Strategy for Researchers at the University of Dubrovnik 2019 – 2022