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Brain Circulation: Brain Circulation: From From
Brain Drain to Brain GainBrain Drain to Brain Gain
Dr. Isser Peer/ Dr. Magdalena Wislocka
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MOREBRAIN CONSORTIUM
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Iceland
Ireland
Spain
Israel
•Israel_Bar Ilan University (BIU)
•Iceland _ The Icelandic Centre for Research (RANNIS)
•Ireland_Irish Universities Association (IUA)
•Spain_FUNDECYT
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Mobility of Researchers
Why is it important?
• Exchange of scientific knowledge and ideas.
• Creating a network of connections among scientists and academics throughout the world.
• Promoting Brain Circulation - an almost equal exchange of people AND knowledge between nations.
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The EURAXESS Network and its Service Centres support and promote mobility of researchers.
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• Developing a uniform questionnaire for distribution to researchers throughout Europe:-why researchers pursue a research career outside Europe
& remain there -why researchers choose to return to their home country
in Europe
• Proposing new concepts of e-reintegration and co-sharing positions to counteract the brain drain phenomenon in Europe.
Concept and Objective of the MOREBRAIN
The Brain Drain in Europe is a worrying issue and of primary importance on a national and pan European scale
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MOREBRAIN Survey
• http://survey.ucd.ie/morebrain/• The online survey- opened in February 2010 and will close in
November 2010• 2,560 responses to date
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Brain Drain - The Situation Today
• The flow is almost entirely one-way toward the U.S.
• Young EU scientists travel to the U.S., for Ph.D. studies and for post-doctorate appointments.
• Highly experienced researchers emigrate to the US and stay there
• Scientists from the U.S., post-docs or others, rarely migrate to the EU.
• This situation has led to an EU 'Brain Drain' – loss of European scientists in favor of the U.S.
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Destinations of the DeutscheForschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Postdoctoral Fellows in 2007 (in %)
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Highly-cited Physicists: Gain and Drain by World Region
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Quantity Versus QualityThe European Brain Drain,
while relatively small in quantity, appears to be significant in terms of
quality.
Research in this field indicates an unbalanced talent flow between the EU
and the U.S.
WHY?WHY?
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Factors Leading to Brain Drain
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Push Factors
Pull Factors
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Results to date (based on 2,560 responses)
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Age of respondents by mobility status
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Career stage of researchers
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Field of Research
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Country of origin by mobility status of respondents
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Currently mobile researchers: country of current destination
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Mobile Researchers
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Preferred destination countryCountry where PhD was received
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Pull Factors
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Push Factors
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Reasons Against Mobility
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Mobile researchers: Need of e-reintegration (different e-tools were proposed and researchers’ preferences analysed)
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In your opinion, would the electronic means increase creative scientific collaboration?
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Co-sharing positions
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As a mobile researcher, to which extent would you be interested in spending partial time in your home country while working abroad most of the time?
In your opinion would sharing your working time between institution in your home country and visiting country institution increase creative scientific collaboration?
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Conclusions • Young PhD and post-docs researchers (under 40), in science
are the most mobile;
• Mobile researchers prefer the U.S as their destination country
• Strongest push factors: Lack of employment prospects and researcher funding opportunities;
• Strongest pulls: career development, working at prestigious host institution as well as good career opportunities abroad;
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Conclusions • The following push factors: lack of funding/employment
opportunities, low incomes, bureaucracy, weakness of home country research have much stronger impact on mobility decision of currently/future mobile researchers, compared to those who returned home;
• An open access to peer reviewed publications is a leading e-tool in maintaining scientific bounds with home countries;
• All respondents expressed interest in co- sharing their working time between visiting country institution and their home research organisation/this would increase research collaboration;
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THANK YOU!
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Dr Isser Peer BIU, Israel
E-mail:[email protected]
Dr Magdalena Wislocka IUA, Ireland
E-mail: [email protected]
The questionnaire and the demonstration video are to be found under the following link:
http://survey.ucd.ie/morebrain
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