EuraxessCat oversees the continuous development of researchers to become more Interdisciplinary, Intersectoral and International. We offer a selection of tools and resources for the professional and personal growth, to enhance your transversal and intercultural skills beyond traditional scientific learning, and to encourage appropriate supervision.
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- Talent Development Suite: The Talent Development Suite (TDS) is a tool to assist you with your personal career development planning. Unlike other career planning tools, the TDS is a personal process that does not depict your skills, but gives you a personal idea of your future (private and personal) life. Please find some more background information regarding the development of the TDS further below. Source: Euraxess
- Vitae researcher booklets: Practical advice and tips tailored to researchers on topics chosen to support professional development. Each booklet includes advice and suggested exercises to work through. Source: VITAE (registered users)
- Plan Your Career: online tool to analyse and reflect on the current state of your own career and the next steps. Source: University of Cambridge
- Getting started in research self-assessment tool: this self-assessment tool of training needs is addressed to researchers in the first few months of their doctoral research. It offers a transversal view of successful researchers’ skills, and it can be used to review the development needs and progress for all researchers as they move forward in their careers. Source: AGAUR
- Become a leader in research self-assessment tool: this self-assessment tool of training needs, created for the Beatriu de Pinós fellows and addressed to all post-doctoral researchers, is useful to analyse and reflect about the key knowledge, behaviours and attributes typically developed by researchers that can be acquired through or used in leadership. Source: AGAUR
- Map of opportunities for researchers in Catalonia: Information on the main programmes for the mobility and professional development of research staff. Source: AGAUR
- Researcher career path in Spain at a glance (5th edition): A complete and updated diagram of the different stages of the research career path and the different grants available in Spain. Source: FECYT
- PromoDoc: A range of information tools and promotion activities, including information days, appointments between doctoral candidates and European higher education institutions, the creation of a network of ambassadors and participation in fairs and events. Source: EuroDoc
- BIST Career Webinars: every two weeks BIST brings together experts in various professional sectors that offer interesting opportunities to researchers who are thinking in developing their careers beyond academia. Source: BIST
- What do research staff do next?: Career stories collection describing the experiences of research staff who have moved to occupations beyond academia. Source: VITAE
- Researchers beyond academia mentoring programme: REBECA aims at putting in touch 50 early stage researchers with an interest in exploring new career options with highly skilled professionals working beyond academia, in order to structure an inspiring and fruitful relationship between them that will support these researchers in their professional career and personal growth. Source: Euraxess Spain
- No limits career orientation tool: this toolkit includes advice, quizzes to help you explore your own needs and links to resources, information and opportunities. Source: Euraxess
- Euraxess’ PIPERS Project Career Kit: a collection of external learning resources in the topics of entrepreneurial skills, information literacy, disciplinary working, IPR, leadership skills, managing a research career, professional development, public engagement, researcher self-assessment, market exploitation of research results and working with industry.
- Cibernarium: free technological training, both online and onsite, by Barcelona Activa.
- Marie Curie Alumni Association YouTube channel: Videos of MCAA seminars and conferences about researchers’ careers and skills development.
- Making the Right Moves: A Practical Guide to Scientific Management for Postdocs and New Faculty: This complete book is a collection of practical advice and experiences from seasoned biomedical investigators and includes chapters on leadership, getting funded, projects and time management, mentoring, negotiation skills, knowledge transfer, promoting collaborations, teaching skills and course design. A free pdf version is available to download.
- European IPR Helpdesk: The European IP Helpdesk provides potential beneficiaries of EU-funded projects and SMEs involved in cross-border business activities with the best possible support enabling them to develop their own IP management strategies and processes.
- UB Institute for Professional Development: An agenda of webinars and courses on transversal skills. Some resources are open, but others are available for UB community only.
- UAB MOOC courses on personal and professional development: Open online courses on soft skills addressed to the university community.
- UPF Researchers’ Guide: This Researcher’s guide compiles the information a PDI might need to carry out their activity as a researcher (funding, research management, open data, publication, accreditation of research, ethics, etc). It contains guidelines and general sources of information (open), and other services available only for UPF researchers.
- UOC Research transfer and entrepreneurship courses: payment courses on knowledge transfer, academic writing, RRI and other skills for researchers.
- De la ciència al mercat: this programme "From science to the market" has been created jointly by all Catalan universities to encourage technology and knowledge transfer.
- Manual for Scientific Enterpreneurship: list of resources and useful liks on Euraxess website to get acquainted with the 5 major steps for research results valorisation.
- Learning Catalan: resources to learn Catalan language.
- RRI tools for researchers: This portal contains more than one thousand resources to implement all aspects of RRI, including online tools, inspiring practices, projects, training courses and library elements. Source: RRI Tools
- Communication and dissemination guide addressed to BP fellows: This guide provides useful tips and resources to plan and execute outreach and communication activities, to address open science requirements according to Horizon 2020 guidelines, and to create a FAIR data management plan. Source: AGAUR
- Science, Society and Engagement: Interactive e-book which provides and introduction to public engagement in research and innovation, as well as useful tools and good practices to engage society in research, both in the decision-making processes and the research activities. Source: Engage 2020
- FOSTER portal: training resources to promote Open Science and FAIR research data management. Source: FOSTER
- ORION Open Science Checklist: This short checklist is intended as a prompt for researchers who wish to make practical changes in order to make their science more open. Source: ORION Open Science.
- Gender equity and women in science: Two videos to raise awareness against gender bias in recruitment at research institutes and sexual microaggressions and harassment. Source: Institució CERCA
- Units for gender equality in Catalan universities: List of links to the institutional support offices or observatories for gender equality in all the Catalan universities. Source: Secretary of Universities and Research (Government of Catalonia)
- The European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity: This code serves the European research community as a framework for self-regulation across all scientific and scholarly disciplines and for all research settings. The 2017 revised edition of the Code addresses emerging challenges emanating from technological developments, open science, citizen science and social media, among other areas. The European Commission recognises the Code as the reference document for research integrity for all EU-funded research projects and as a model for organisations and researchers across Europe. Source: ALLEA (All European Academies)
- CIR-CAT documents of interest: Collection of documents selected by the Committee for the Integrity of Research in Catalonia. Source: Secretary of Universities and Research (Government of Catalonia)
How I manage to find work – life balance as a researcher. How to find the conciliation of work and family life as a researcher
10 habits for a successful postdoc. Consider how day-to-day activities can enhance the career prospects of postdoctoral students - THE.
7 tips to communicate wellbeing (leadership). How to communicate wellness from a leadership position.
How to beat procrastination. How to stop postponing and how to be more productive.
Foods linked to better brainpower. Food and productivity, a Harvard study.
Emotional Welfare. Website of the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality focused on emotional well-being to guide the population on skills to improve their lifestyles and learn to manage emotions and stress according to their emotional needs.
Mental Health Resource Map. Information on the services and resources of the health and social network and of mental health associations and entities in Catalonia.
Researcher Mental Health Observatory. Created through an EU COST action. Contains various materials such as videos to improve the research environment or working groups on different aspects of research.
PRIDE Network. Associations for Professionals in Doctoral Education, on Research Careers and Mental Health.
EMBRACE HE. ERASMUS + project aimed at solving the mental health problems of higher education. Materials available on mental health and wellbeing studies in higher education students and various toolkits to increase mental health
Gender and mental health. Information on mental health issues with a higher prevalence in females, such as depression, eating disorders and postpartum depression.
Evidence for gender responsive actions to promote mental health. WHO information on gender-based mental health actions and gender incidence statistics.