Career promotion criteria published in English

Allotting a space on the institution's website for the list of career promotion criteria could greatly contribute to foreign researchers seeking a more permanent involvement at the welcoming institution. Career paths should be structured, transparent, and clear for foreign researchers.

Goals

Improved access to information

Basic information

Practice setup

The setting up activities include:

• all the possible positions should be listed on the website, ideally published in English (language departments can be asked to help translate the career promotion criteria) 


• career promotion criteria would include the following, among others; the time period spent in a certain position necessary to be completed prior to applying for a different position, for example, researcher to senior researcher, the forms of the learning/educational/teaching process the ones seeking promotions have been involved in, number and type of publications. Each of the criteria should be given for every single position (assistant professor, researcher, senior researcher, associate professor, et cetera).


• IROs could be forwarding the open positions to interested foreign researchers. New positions should be constantly updated and described in a detailed manner. If it is done properly, it should look like an elaborate list with the same type of criteria listed for each and every entry, but at the same time, it could be easy to compare criteria for different positions.

Cost of practice setup
Time required for practice setup
Personnel effort required for practice setup
Actors involved in practice setup	IRO/welcome centre Language department IT support department
Partners involved in practice setup	EURAXESS centre
Indicators for evaluating progress/quality of practice setup	Procedures or bylaws are defined or updated

@EURAXESS centre can help with designing a structure for open position (s) based on the open job positions structure templates at the EURAXESS job & funding database 

Practice delivery

The delivery activities can include:

• Whenever a foreign researcher shows interest in coming to a certain institution, IROs should forward them the list of career promotion criteria in English, to show that they, apart from coming for an exchange, can also advance their academic career at the welcoming institution. 

Challenges (factors to consider): incoming academics and staff members should be informed beforehand that such an option, where they can check career promotion criteria, is accessible.