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ERA Consultation Contribution (3): Lifting Barriers and Moving Researchers in the European Union

21 November 2011

At the heart of the European Research Area is a very simple idea: the free movement of knowledge. Although the notion of ‘free movement’ is as old as the European Union (EU) itself, the fifth freedom is new. We give attention to researcher mobility because, according to the Innovation Union targets, the EU needs at least one million researchers by 2020. We show that mobility is a very risky undertaking
for most researchers if these barriers are not removed. In this third contribution from Eurodoc to the ERA consultation, we highlight several key barriers still in place and suggest ways of lifting them.
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