A UCO researcher in his laboratory / Archive
This distinction recognizes the University's efforts to embrace a strategy focused on obtaining excellence in this area.
The European Commission has formally awarded the University of Cordoba the HRS4R (Human Resources Strategy for Researchers) seal, which recognizes the university’s efforts as an institution or entity that funds R&D while adopting a series of good practices in the recruitment of researchers and technical staff.
The recruitment principles are defined in the European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct, drafted in 2005 by the European Commission, and are aimed at both individual researchers and entities that fund or contract research grants within the public or private sectors. The codes found in the aforementioned documents, which were signed in June 2016 by UCO, as part of a Declaration of Commitment, are in line with the institution's Strategic Plan.
The European Charter for Researchers outlines the roles, responsibilities and rights of researchers and their employers, its aim being to ensure that the relationship between both parties contributes to the successful generation, transfer and sharing of knowledge, while promoting research careers from the outset. The Code of Conduct was also developed to make the personnel selection procedure fairer and more transparent.
In this way, the merits of researchers are not only measured by their number of publications, but also based on criteria such as their training, teaching, supervision, teamwork, knowledge transfer, management experience and awareness-raising activities aimed at society.
In order to obtain the HRS4R seal the UCO created a working group including representatives of both its administrative and service staff and teaching and research personnel related to Research and Human Resources, with the objective of carrying out an internal analysis of the academic institution through a survey sent to 972 researchers and working group meetings.
Once the analysis was completed, a series of actions were designed to adapt the UCO’s mechanisms to the requirements of this recognition.
The HRS4R seal distinguishes the University of Cordoba for having a strategy focused on obtaining excellence in the recruitment of researchers, and prepares it to apply for Human Resources-related grants.