The ESF Career Tracking and Monitoring Platform (CTMP) is an open platform by research organisations (research funding & performing) on career tracking of researchers and on data on research career pathways. The aim of the European platform is to provide orientation on how to conduct surveys, studies and/or develop career tracking systems based on international good practice.
PURPOSES
- Tracking the quality of research training and skills
- Tracking to find out where researchers move in their careers
- Tracking for accountability & impact assessment
STAKEHOLDER BENEFITS
- Research funders / policymakers
- Impact: What is the true value of a PhD? (compared e.g. to a masters)
- Accountability
- Inform about policy and practice
- Inform about outcome of career funding schemes and impact of doctoral programmes in view of their mission and objectives
- Identify the effect of (non) funding
- Justify public investment in doctoral training
- Awareness raising/communication about benefits of research careers
- Enhance effectiveness and efficiency
- Structural approach to research careers and the labour market for researchers: capacity building according to supply/demand
- Understand and enable different forms of mobility
- Policy planning
- Research performing organisations / universities
- Creating transparency and know-how about institutional workforce, jobs and career paths
- Career development
- Institutional competitiveness/profiling the institution
- Inter-institutional/inter-sector collaborations and networks
- Individual researchers
- Provide career orientation and information on career destinations, programmes etc.
- Job satisfaction
- Demonstrate attractiveness of research career/perception of quality of career
- Understand the motivation to engage in doctoral training
- Realising the broad variety of successful careers – not just in academia
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