HRS4R. Human Resources Strategy for Researchers

A strategy to improve the working environment of those conducting research

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The “Human Resource Strategy for Researchers” is a strategy to implement in practice the principles expressed in the European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers, signed by the University of Macerata in 2005.

Together, these documents contain a set of general principles that specify the role, the responsibilities and the rights of researchers and the people employing and/or financing researchers, as well as the general principles that should be applied by employers and/or financers when appointing or employing researchers. In 2023 The Council of the European Union adopted the New European Charter for Researchers.

In order for the principles expressed in the Charter to be effectively implemented, in September 2012, the University made a formal commitment before the European Commission to draft a strategy for the actual implementation of the principles, adhering to the Institutional Human Resources Strategy Group.

The first Action Plan for the years 2015-2020 was awarded by the European Commission with the HR Excellence in Research accreditation (one of the first granted in Italy).

Subsequently, following an audit carried out in December 2021, three experts of the European Commission expressed a fully positive opinion of the University of Macerata and the second Action Plan for the years 2021-2024, confirming the assignment of the "HR Excellence in Research" logo for another three years.

In March 2025 the Academic Senate approved the new Action Plan for the years 2025-2027, which was elaborated considering the results of a survey administered to the entire academic community in the autumn of 2024.

The strategy’s objective is to make the working environment of Macerata more attractive for those already working there, and for those who may come there to work, with a particular focus on the needs of researchers and “young researchers” (PhD students, assignees of study grants, collaborators of various kinds).