EURAXESS Services Annual Meeting March 2009 Brain Circulation: From Brain Drain to Brain Gain FUNDECYT Israel, 17 th March 2010

EURAXESS Services Annual Meeting March 2009 Mobility Forum EURAXESS SERVICES Transnational collaboration MOREBRAIN FORUM

EURAXESS Services Annual Meeting March 2009 Mobility Forum It has allocated 15 inputs from 16/07/2009 to 9/03/2010 Tipology of contents: Articles Papers Conference documents European Parlamient notes Reports News Project Summary MOREBRAIN Survey

EURAXESS Services Annual Meeting March 2009 Mobility Forum 16/07/2009 Article: "The parameters of the exodus" eu/59/article_5930_en.html - 20/07/2009 Within the framework of MOREBRAIN project, an online survey on researchers' attitudes toward mobility has been designed. We will distribute the questionnaire to researchers in both European countries and the USA. For the first time, we are conducting a pan–European coordinated activity in order to obtain the necessary and comparable "brain drain" information among European Research Area countries. - 24/07/2009 Tender Euraxess Ireland intends to appoint a subcontractor for programming, and administering an online questionnaire, as part of the Trans-National EURAXESS Project MOREBRAIN. More information in: /10/2009 In this paper Pierpaolo Giannoccolo from the University of Bologna - Department of Economics, analyzed the Brain Drain Competition policies in Europe. The paper developes different tasks as Brain Drain definition, how is analyzed in literature; the magnitude of the BD in EU; how the EU suggests to solve the BD problem. Finally they make a brief analysis about the outcomes of these policies in the different countries. - 29/10/2009 "Trends in Brain Circulation" Conference on Attracting Research Talent by Prof. Dr. Boris Cizelj

EURAXESS Services Annual Meeting March 2009 Mobility Forum 29/10/2009 Key Data on Education in Europe sets out a very wide variety of both qualitative and quantitative indicators on different aspects of education systems in 31 European countries. The report presents a comparative analysis on how the education systems are organised, the human and financial resources invested in them, teaching processes and qualifications awarded /11/2009 The European Parliament has published the note: "Cross-border Mobility of Young Researchers" through the Policy area of Industry, research and energy. Researcher mobility has been low in many Member States and there are several obstacles for mobility. EU and the Member States have introduced several measures to support the mobility of researchers. Despite these efforts the progress has remained slow and further effort is still needed to facilitate mobility in particular of young researchers. 03/11/2009 "No place like home" is the title of an article published on NATURE Vol 461, by Claire Ainsworth who is a freelance writer based in Southhampton, UK. The focus of the article is that Young eastern European scientists are returning to their home countries to set up labs with mixed success. The writer, Claire Ainsworth tracks their progress. This article have been posted on SGHRM Portal by Sohail Luka, where it was taken. - 27/11/2008 Update Summary of MOREBRAIN project

EURAXESS Services Annual Meeting March 2009 Mobility Forum 04/12/2009 During the Plenary Session of "Cultural Euro-African Cooperation Campus Migration" celebrated in Maputo (Mozambique), Eugene K. Campbell from the Department of Population Studies at the University of Botswana, made a presentation about "Migration and Culture in the Euro-African Context". - 04/12/2009 Article: "Brain Circulation: Theoretical Considerations", by Rasa Daugeliene, Rita Marcinkeviciene from the Kaunas University of Technology. The aim of this article is to highlight the theoretical features of brain circulation phenomenon and to suggest the hypothetical actions how to stimulate the brain circulation. - 15/12/2009 Report: "A Visa and Immigration Policy for the Brain-Circulation Era: Adjusting to What Happened in the World While We were Making Other Plans", developed by NAFSA( Association of International Educators is the world's largest nonprofit professional association dedicated to international education) – 04/02/2010 "Brains on the move. Gains and losses from student mobility and academic migration" The international mobility of students and migration of researchers will be the theme of 2010 Annual Conference in the South of Spain. secretariat.be/08events/Conferences/Cordoba%202010/cordoba2010.htm - 04/02/2010 Online demonstration video for the EURAXESS Services centre – MOREBRAIN Consortium Survey - 09/03/2010 "Improving the social security of internationally mobile researchers: Analysis and recommendations"

EURAXESS Services Annual Meeting March 2009 Mobility Forum - Facebook A facebook group called MOREBRAIN PROJECT, was created (1 st march 2010), focused to spread the project survey and the results. It will be dynamized to get as many members as possible.

EURAXESS Services Annual Meeting March 2009 Promotion ideas to disseminate the results The summary report with the conclusions of the data collected will be upload to: Morebrain Forum Facebook group Partners web page Euraxess Service Centers web page

EURAXESS Services Annual Meeting March 2009 Promotion ideas to disseminate the results It will be sent to the most important research organizations Euraxess Services Centers Euraxess Links (China, Japan & USA) European Commission Academic Cooperation Association (ACA) International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association (TERENA) European Association of Research Managers & Administrators (EARMA)..... We will generate a list of entities to send the results summary