HR Excellence in Research Award / HRS4R
At HVL, we work continuously to ensure that researchers have orderly and good working conditions, a predictable professional development and an inclusive and stimulating working environment.
HVL have applied for the HR Excellence in Research Award as a step in the organisation's work on HRS4R (HR Strategy for Researchers). Awarded institutions can use the award to highlight their commitment to implement fair and transparent recruitment and appraisal procedures for researchers. Receiving this award will constitute an acknowledgement that underlines HVL's continuous work on quality improvement on researchers' working conditions, to ensure that these are in line with the European Commission's guidelines.
In the work with HRS4R, HVL has drawn up an Action Plan for the work for 2024-2025. This contains various measures within the six areas of “Career and professional development”, “Interaction and information flow”, “Working conditions”, “Ethics”, “Mobility” and “Recruitment”. A steering group and a reference group have been appointed to follow the work closely. In line with HRS4R, HVL must carry out a self-evaluation after two years, and thereafter HVL's work with HRS4R will be evaluated every three years by the European Commission.
Documentation
HVL’s application for HR Excellence in Research Award:
More about HRS4R/HR Excellence in Research
The European Commission recognises with the “HR Excellence in Research Award” the institutions which make progress in aligning their human resources policies to the 40 principles of the Charter and Code, based on a customized action plan/HR strategy.
The Commission's The European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the recruitment of Researchers are briefly referred to as the Charter and Code. This is a set of general principles and requirements which
- specifies the roles, responsibilities and entitlements of researchers as well as of employers and/or funders of researchers, and
- should be followed by employers and/or funders when appointing or recruiting researchers.
The EU Commission has developed the tool HRS4R (HR Strategy for Researchers) to support research institutions and funding organisations in the implementation of the Charter & Code in their policies and practices. The Charter and Code guidelines have a special focus on early-stage researchers, career development and mobility, and implementation of EU's Charter and Code principles, will help HVL identify areas of improvement.
The HRS4R - Human Resources Strategy for Researchers supports research institutions and funding organisations in the implementation of the Charter and Code in their policies and practices.
Steering group
- Director of Organisation Tage Båtsvik
- Pro-Rector for Research Christine Øye
- Vice-Dean Marjolein Memelink Iversen FHS
- Vice-Dean Vegard Fusche Moe, FLKI
- Vice-Dean Stig Erik Jakobsen, FTMS
- Union representative Tone Skjerdal
- Professor Helle Asgjerd Oltedal, FTMS
- Associate Professor Matthias Paetzel, FTMS
Reference group
- Deputy director Elin Kvaale, AFII
- Deputy director Anne Marit Morken, HR
- Assistant Head of Department Ane Kristiansen Solbraa, FLKI
- Head of Section Anny Aasprang, FHS
- Assistant Professor Jorunn Aske, FLKI
- Associate Professor Ellen Johanne Svendsbø, FHS
- Associate Professor Laila Margaret Nordstrand Berg, FØS
- Professor Karl Albert Brokstad, FIN
- Professor and PhD coordinator Håvard Helstrup
- Senior Adviser and PhD coordinator Rachel Gershuny Berge