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EURODOC discusses mobility patterns and new collaborative environments for researchers at the Euroscience Open Forum in Torino

24 July 2010

The session “New comparable data on young researcher’s mobility patterns available: what are the consequences for European Research Policy?” was aimed to provide an overview of the newly available comparable data, including Eurodoc survey results, on crucial topics like motives for pursuing a doctorate, career paths, funding, supervision, generic skills and mobility. Among the speakers were Dagmar Meyer
 from European Commission, Giancarlo Gasperoni from 
University of Bologna, Karoline Holländer and Snezana Krstic from Eurodoc.

The other session “What would science look like if it were invented today?” discussed how researchers can benefit from the new communication tools such as blogs, microblogs, wikis and other collaborative environments, and how public post-publication peer review and contribution-based metrics can work to enrich scientific communication. The session was a showcase on how those communication tools for scientific interaction can work in practice. The expert speakers Steven Mansour from World Association of Young Scientists, and Daniel Mietchen from Eurodoc were connected online to Torino to communicate with the participants which were physically present during the session.