Endorse the Bratislava Declaration of Young Researchers

Universidad de los Andes in Bogota - Colombia with all my collaborators in Europe.

Fully agree, well done!

Ireland

The system needs to change towards a less hierarchical system, since it does not make sense that the only way that postdocs can stay in research is being at the top of their own group. Since obviously there are much more postdocs than such positions, many of them will eventually abandon their careers, which is a huge loss of money for the countries that invested in their formation. Science needs groups, permanent staff that works within a group, but this is not an option in most countries. As in every other job, there are people that have their optimum performance at different levels, but the system pushes all of us to the top of the mountain, where often, more than a good researcher you have to become a human resources manager and a money harvester.

The International Consortium of Research Staff Associations (ICoRSA) 1. We aspire to enable great people to realise their ideas to understand and improve the world. The vision and mission of ICoRSA provides a voice for researchers to realise their ideas to understand and improve the world 2. We aspire to sustainable and transparent career trajectories. ICoRSA endorses this and is leading a COST action proposal ‘SECURE’ to investigate these concepts. 3. We aspire to a diverse, collaborative, inter-disciplinary, open, and ethical research environment. ICoRSA endorses this and is leading a SWAFS 3 H2020 proposal ‘Gendering’ to investigate these initiatives. 4. We aspire to a healthy work-life balance. Happy researcher is a productive researcher. Gained through sustainable and valued careers

Please give young researchers working overseas hope on the scientific career in the EU

Alemania

I fully support most of the points of the petition and I think that progress particularly in the points sustainable, transparent career paths and work life ballance will in the long term be crucial to maintain the leading role of the European Union today has in science. I disagree to the criticism on economical and impact oriented funding. I agree we should ask society to provide us with reasonable, competitive working and life conditions. But we should not be shy to provide something in return: research that matters. Most of the time, this means matters economically, sometimes it might be an advancement for society or our basic understanding of the world. But let us not forget: we are not children asking for toys. We are the brain and muscle of technological leadership. And either we will be heard, or we will choose to work elsewhere.

Germany

Italy

France

Hi folks, it is amazing, that you gathered and started to put some pressure on the polycymakers to improve the situation as a young scientist in universities in europe and around the world! Unfortunatley there was little informaion about your efforts before it came to the recent press conference in bratislava. Please organize your efforts more visible, so that many more young scientists can participate at the discourse and increase the pressure on politics. Thank you! Cheers Lukas Peintner

28 years-old young researcher and happy mom who cumulates full-time temporary positions (postdocs) in the hopes of acquiring (one day, preferably before 40 years-old) a permanent position....

http://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2016/08/young-european-researchers-set-groundwork-policy-changes?utm_campaign=news_weekly_2016-09-02&et_rid=35138522&et_cid=772261

Brazil

from Berlin, Germany.

France

Brit doing neuro PhD in the Netherlands - this is a really smart idea.

Dinamarca

This petition is a great initiative and must be strongly supported by its signers to be spread everywhere. As a co-author of the open letter "They have chosen ignorance" published by EuroScience/EuroScientist in October 2014, I promise to do my best! Young researchers are in a bad situation facing to their future and older researchers are mainly exhausted facing to the present! Society needs scientists with enthusiasm and fully focused on their missions... climate change, nature's poisoning, renewable energies, social economy, new political deal.. instead of being overstressed by top-down sterilising bureaucracy and the many consequences of austerity.