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Maria-Antonietta Buccheri, Vanessa Diaz- Zuccarini, Giovanna Avellis, Manuela Giovanetti
The Green paper “Inventing our future together. The European Research Area: new perspectives” published last April by the EC identifies the need for “an adequate flow of competent researchers with high levels of mobility between institutions, disciplines, sectors and countries” as a major priority.
Researchers mobility is beyond doubt a key condition for the development of the European scientific research for a number of reasons. Moreover, it represents a great opportunity for scientists in whatever stage of their career. Nonetheless, researchers mobility may hurt with their own personal lives. The issue becomes even harder if we consider that the proportion of dual-career couples is increasing among scientists.
The need for negotiating both careers becomes a source of discontent and often one of the two is affected considerably by the choices made. Mobility has demonstrated to be partly gender sensitive and this needs to be addressed in some way in order to ensure at least equal opportunities to male and female scientists regarding possibilities and benefits offered by mobility programmes.
A main presentation will give to the audience a general introduction on the topic, while three speakers will introduce their personal experiences. A debate will follow and participants will be invited to report personal observations, making comments and boosting suggestions.
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