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Surveys

To support the European Commission in monitoring and gaining insight in what researchers find important in their careers and mobility, to what extent they still face barriers for mobility or career progression but also which impact policy measures have (had) on these aspects, the MORE3 study collects information from individual researchers through two large-scale surveys:

 

  • The EU HEI survey (May-June 2016; report foreseen by end of 2016):
    A survey of more than 10,000 individual researchers currently working in the EU (28 Member States + 3 Associated Countries) in higher education institutions (HEI).
    The survey will address researchers with both EU and non-EU citizenship. It also includes researchers who have been mobile outside the EU but have returned to work now in the EU. It does not include EU and non-EU researchers who are currently working outside the EU. The sampling and survey strategy guarantee representative data at country level.

    For more information on the EU HEI survey: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

  • The global survey (May-June 2017; report foreseen by end of 2017):
    A survey of more than 4,000 individual researchers currently working outside the EU (28 Member States and 3 Associated Countries).
    The majority (but not all) of the researchers in the sample work in higher education institutes. The survey includes i) EU researchers currently working outside the EU, ii) non-EU researchers who have worked in the EU in the past, iii) non-EU researchers who have not worked in the EU but who have been internationally mobile elsewhere and iv) non-EU researchers who have not been mobile at all.

    For more information on the global survey: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

Topics that will be addressed include

  • Researchers’ socio-demographics
  • Education, PhD and doctoral training
  • Working conditions
  • Career paths
  • Geographical mobility (long and short term): stock, flows, motives, barriers and effects
  • Collaboration and virtual mobility
  • Interdisciplinary mobility
  • Intersectoral mobility

 

 

More information on the surveys will be made available soon.