HR Award – HR Excellence in Research Award

On 21 April 2021, the interim analysis was submitted to the European Commission for review and the revised action plan for 2021-2024 was published. On 29 April 2021, the European Commission informed the Institute of Physiology of the positive consensus report of the assessors of our HR Award interim report.

On 13 March 2019, the European Commission awarded the Institute of Physiology of the CAS with the HR Excellence in Research Award. Our action plan was accepted by the assessors of the European Commission and the Institute was awarded the HR Excellence in Research Award logo for a period of two years.

The core of the Institute’s HRS4R strategy is the Action Plan 2018-2020 and the Open, Transparent and Merit-Based Recruitment (“OTM-R”) policy. The Action Plan is a set of actions and indicators to address the gaps identified in the Gap Analysis and to implement the principles of the Charter & Code. The OTM-R Policy is a set of guidelines and procedures that aligns the Institute’s recruitment and selection process of the Institute with the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. The OTM-R Policy was developed based on the based on the OTM-R Checklist.

The aim of the Gap Analysis was to identify where and how the Institute’s current practice deviates from the principles of the Charter & Code. The GAP Analysis process involved researchers at all levels (R1-R4), through one-on-one meetings/discussions and an online survey. The process of gap analysis is described in the document Gap process description.