Action plan
An important part of the HRS4R strategy is to find areas for improvement through a gap analysis, and to develop an action plan capable of filling these gaps through targeted actions that can help the improvement of the Human Resources policies of our institution and the fulfillment of the C&C principles.
An action plan has been in place since 2017. This plan was updated in 2019 and 2022, and the last version 2022 can be found in the documentation section below. It lists all actions carried out since the start of the HRS4R strategy until year 2022. The last 6 actions of the 2022 action plan (actions 19 to 25) were proposed in that year when the documentation was sent to the European Commission. However, given the delays we have had in the external evaluation process and the year that has passed since the last Consensus Report was provided by the External Evaluation Panel, many of them have already been completed.
In any case, following the recommendations given in the Consensus Report, a new gap analysis has been carried out during the last year. All the important information needed to elaborate the new updated action plan is included in the Survey and Gap Analysis document which can be found here.
It analyses the 40 principles of the C&C, in our case through a survey, and correlates the information with more direct face-to-face meetings with researchers to get their views on the strategy and the different principles. There may be other options for obtaining this information, such as focus groups, but in this case we decided to bring in new information from a large number of researchers through a survey.
From these data we have generated the new updated Action Plan for the years 2025 to 2027, when our next HRS4R performance review will take place.
Related documentation
This section shows the documents that provide information on the self-assessment process and the actions carried out and to be carried out in the coming months.