The European Commission is currently evaluating its policy frameworks, instruments, and mechanisms available to promote science for policy and evidence-informed policymaking processes across all Commission services and Member States’ governance levels.
Among these, the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) offer researchers the opportunity to join public administrations, establish links with policymakers and engage in policymaking processes through their research work.
Although the range and formats of such opportunities span across almost all programme actions (Doctoral Networks, Postdoctoral Fellowships, Staff Exchanges, etc.), this first event will focus on the placement opportunity under MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships (PF).
Placements are a new feature in PF and their goal is to create stronger inter-sectoral links through a 6-month placement in a non-academic organisation at the end of the fellowship. The next MSCA PF call is opening in May 2022.
In accordance with the abovesaid, if you are a researcher interested in being exposed to policy environments for a short time and you would you like to have a better understanding of how policymaking works, with growing your network of policy professionals, or you belong to a policy institution interested in hosting researchers at your organisation for a short time, you will be interested in this science and policy matchmaking event organised by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport (DG EAC) and the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), which will be held online on May 31st, from 09:30-13:00.
Therefore, the main aim of this matchmaking event is to link policymakers interested to host researchers with researchers preparing their PF applications and looking for suitable hosts for the 6-month non-academic placement at the end of the fellowship.
Call for researchers
This is an event dedicated to researchers with an interest in applying for MSCA postdoctoral fellowships. In addition, they should have one or more of the following interests:
- Researchers with an interest in learning about policymaking,
- Researchers interested in providing scientific advice to governments and/or parliaments, and/or
- Researchers with an interest in exploring career options in policymaking.
Call for policy organisations
Representatives from the following organisations and with the interest of potentially hosting researchers for a short time to register for the event are kindly invited:
- Science, technology, and innovation policy organisations such as research and education ministries, regional governments, public foundations, etc.
- Science and policy boundary organisations provide science advice to governments and/or parliaments such as public agencies, science advisory councils, strategic and foresight government offices, science and technology parliamentary offices, research parliamentary libraries, etc.
- Science diplomacy organisations such as Ministries of Foreign Affairs, embassies, consulates, international bodies, national/regional networks of science and innovation delegates, etc.
- Any public administration body (ministry, regional government, local council, parliament, agency…) interested in having access to scientific knowledge.
Importantly, public organisations qualifying as Research Organisation or Higher Education institutions are noteligible to be a non-academic placement host.
Read more at: https://knowledge4policy.ec.europa.eu/event/science-policy-matchmaking-event_en