Hosting Researchers at Risk: How employers and hosts can help researchers make the most of their stay

This webinar is for representatives of higher education institutions and other organisations such as private and public sector employers, NGOs, private research institutes, and business networks in Europe interested in welcoming researchers at risk to the workplace.

The content will be relevant for a wide range of staff currently or potentially interested in hosting/ employing researchers at their organisation, including international office staff, human resource professionals, heads of department, research and development units, research administration offices and organisational leaders.

Topics to be covered include:

• Introduction to the Inspireurope project and opportunities to get involved

• Perspectives of researchers at risk currently being hosted in European higher education institutions and employed in the private sector

• An overview of findings on hosting and supporting researchers at risk from the Inspireurope report; Researchers at Risk: Mapping Europe’s Response

• Opportunities to raise questions with the expert panel and share ideas for future webinar topics

Speakers for this webinar are:

• Karolina Catoni (Chair), International Relations Officer and Assisting Director at the International Centre at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

• Marit Egner, Senior Adviser in the Office for Research and International Cooperation, University of Osl, Norway

• Souad Odeh, IT Technical Advisor at FI Group, France

• Eqbal Dauqan, Researcher, Department of Nutrition, University of Oslo, Norway

• Ahmet Gürata, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies, Sweden.

This webinar is free of charge but registration is required here

(https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/sar-europe/inspireurope/webinars).

The Inspireurope project also invites your ideas for topics for future webinars on the topic of preparing the work environment for researchers at risk by writing to inspireurope@mu.ie.