Process

• Declaration of Commitment of Charles University for „The European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers“ - 11/2017

• Working on internal Gap Analysis and Action Plan - 12/2017-10/2018

• Submission of the Gap Analysis¹ and Action Plan to the European Commission - 15/11/2018

• Pending minor modifications - 20/12/2018

• Submission of revised documents - 01/02/2019

• HR Award granted by the European Commission - 05/02/2019

• Implementation of the Action Plan - 02/2019-05/2021

• Internal Review for Interim Assessment and Revised Action Plan and implementation of the Action Plan 2019-20210 - 1/02/2021

• Interim Assessment Report - 27/04/2021

• Implementation of the Revised Action Plan - 36 months

• Renewal with site visit - 36 months after submission of the Interim Assessment and the Revised Action Plan

source: EURAXESS

Outputs

• Amended Code of Ethics and Code of Procesure for the Ethics Commission. Rector's Directive on Plagiarism.

• Translating documents into English - internal regulations of Charles University, Rector's Directives, selected internal regulations of faculties, Annual Report of Charles University 2017 & 2018 etc. Czech-English dictionary.

• New Competitive Hiring Process Code based on principles of open, transparent and merit-based recrutiment.

• CU Staff Welcome Centre - services and support for foreign academics and researchers coming to Charles University (starting January 2020).

• Doctoral Study Hub - coordination of academic development and transversal skills education for PhD students.

• Welcome Day for new PhD students - 24 October 2019 in Czech and 25 October 2019 in English.

• Dealing with research results - new Rector's Directives on Intellectual Property Rights and on Knowledge and Technology Transfer. Fully working CU's subsidiary Charles University Innovations Prague. Network of technology scouts and coordinators of knowledge transfer.

• Pedagogical Skills - Centre Paedagogium, Pedagogical Skills Enhancement Programme.

• Guidebook for CU's employees (Czech, English), to be downloaded in Czech or English.

• Career website (Czech, English).

• Personal Data Protection - implementation of GDPR (Rector's Directive, seminars, information online), working on e-learning for employees. Data protection in students' theses.

• Research evaluation - executive summary and press release

• Framework for career development and evaluation of employees.

• Research data management, data management plan.

• Trainings and seminars regarding ERC, MSCA, Staff Training Week, soft skills etc. - registration via CU Educational portal (login under <yourCUnumber>@cuni.cz).

Contact

RNDr. Věra Šťastná, Ph.D., coordinator of HR Excellence in Research at CU

tel. +420 224 491 770

This project is supported within the framework of the OP RDE Project "Improvement of strategic management at Charles University in the field of human resources in R & D", reg. no.: CZ.02.2.69/0.0/0.0/16_028/0006210.