Joint Research Centre (JRC)

Joint Research Centre (JRC)
How to cooperate with the JRC:
Access to large research infrastructures and
Job opportunities
5 June 2013
Zagreb
Milena Raykovska
Interinstitutional and Stakeholder Relations
[email protected]
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Joint activities
How can I / my organisation cooperate with the JRC?
• Work at the JRC (and transfer knowledge contacts to your home
organisation)
• Gain access to the JRC large scale research infrastructure and
databases
• Perform joint research activities
• Exchange information
• Exchange personnel
• Author common scientific papers
• Organise / speak / present / participate at common conferences and
events
But no transfer of money
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Job opportunities
at the JRC
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JRC Human Resources
JRC staff by type of contract
JRC staff by type of activity
• 1782 permanent staff (officials)
• 361 short term contracts (contract agents)
• 624 grantholders
• 76 trainees
• 47 Seconded National Experts
• 486 additional staff members
Total of 3376 employees
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(*) staff data – May 2013
Jobs at the JRC:
What do we offer?
• Access to unique facilities for research and training
• Multicultural, multilingual work environment
• Competitive salaries
Making the JRC an even better place to work
by promoting a fair, effective, and attractive
working culture
Working Conditions Policy
• Flexitime
• Tele-working
• Part-time work
• Equal opportunities
• Use of VC facilities
Social Policy
Reconciliation
private /
professional lives
• Social advantages
• Childcare services
• Temporary housing
• Well-being policy
• Integration and
social activities
• Welcome desk
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Jobs at the JRC:
What do we offer?
Statutory Staff
•Permanent positions (Officials)
Through open
•Temporary positions - max 6Y (Temporary Agents)
competitions
launched by the
•Temporary positions - max 3Y (Contract Agents)
European
Personnel Selection
Office (EPSO)
http://europa.eu/epso/
•Grantholders
•Seconded National Experts
•Trainees
•Other working opportunities
Non Statutory Staff
Also open to candidates
with non-EU
nationalities
http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/jrc/jobs
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Working opportunities on
permanent basis
Permanent staff (officials):
Multiannual Recruitment Planning
Since 2010, the JRC is launching open competitions for permanent staff
(officials):
8 specific open competitions published in 2010 in the fields of:
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Chemistry, Biology and Health Sciences
Physics
Structural Mechanics
Quantitative Policy Analysis
Spatial Sciences
Environmental Sciences
Energy Sciences
Communication & Information Technology
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Working opportunities on
Temporary basis
Temporary agents:
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For EU nationals
For scientific staff
Contract duration: max. 4 + 2 years
Through open competitions - European Personnel
Selection Office (EPSO)
Contract agents:
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For EU nationals
Contract duration: max. 3 years
For scientific and administrative staff
Through open competitions - European Personnel
Selection Office (EPSO)
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Working opportunities on
permanent basis
Contract agents:
CAST Research
At the beginning of this year, the JRC launched a CAST in 5 specific areas of
competence open to EU Member States and from Associated Countries*:
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Natural Sciences
Quantitative Sciences
Human and Social Sciences
Agricultural, Environmental and Earth Sciences
Health Sciences
*Albania,
Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Faeroe Islands, Iceland, Israel, Liechtenstein, Montenegro, Norway, Republic of
Moldova, Switzerland, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Serbia and Turkey.
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Working opportunities on
Temporary basis
Grantholders:
• For EU nationals and for nationals from
other countries (for post-doc and senior
researchers only)
• For scientific staff
• Types:
• Contract duration: between 3 months
and 3 years
• Access: open calls launched through the
website of the JRC
PhD Students:
for researchers starting their careers, who
submit a proposal for doctoral studies
related to a research area published in a
JRC institute's call.
Post Docs:
for researchers holding a doctoral degree
or having a minimum of 5 years research
experience, giving access to doctoral
studies in a field relevant to the JRC’s
scientific activities.
Senior scientists:
for senior scientists with a proven
reputation and a high level of experience.
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Working opportunities on
Temporary basis
Seconded National Experts (SNEs):
• For EU nationals and exceptionally nationals from other countries
and from public intergovernmental organisations
• SNEs detached to JRC by public organisation, national authority,
university, institute, etc.
• SNEs remain in the service of their employer
• Access: Open calls launched on the JRC web-site and organised
through EU 27 Permanent Representations and Diplomatic Missions
of non-member countries
• Contract duration: 6 months to 2 years;
renewable once for a total period of 4 years
• Financial conditions: daily subsistence allowance
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Working opportunities on
Temporary basis
Trainees:
• 3 types: training for preparation of a thesis for university degree,
training after university degree, industrial placement
• Access: open calls for trainees launched through each Institute website
• Contract duration: between 3 months and 1 year
• Financial conditions: trainee grant
Others:
• Interim staff - local staff on very short term and temporary basis (up to 6
months) - through temping agencies http://www.startpeople.be and
http://www.unique.be
• European Commission Traineeship Programme - 5 months (March – July;
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October – February)
http://ec.europa.eu/stages/
How to apply?
Via the European Personnel Selection Office: http://europa.eu/epso
How to apply?
Via the JRC: www.jrc.ec.europa.eu
Current openings
5 June 2013
• 8 Grantholder positions for PhD students
• 49 Grantholder positions for Post-doc researchers
• 4 Grantholder positions for senior researchers
• 2 Trainees
• 5 Seconded National Experts
• 3 Other
Croatian eligible for at least 61 positions!
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Useful contacts
Links:
JRC: http://www.jrc.ec.europa.eu
EPSO: http://www.eu-careers.eu
Traineeship Office: http://ec.europa.eu/stages/
Staff regulations: http://ec.europa.eu/civil_service/docs/toc100_en.pdf
Contacts:
[email protected]
[email protected]
JRC Large Scale Research
Infrastructure
The JRC has a wide range of laboratories and unique research facilities at
its disposal. They make it a valuable partner in many research fields and
through numerous collaborations, access to many facilities is granted to
scientists from partner organisations.
JRC builds and maintains its own general infrastructure, and namely 31
specialised large scale research facilities and 48 scientific databases
JRC Large Scale Research
Infrastructure
High Flux Reactor
The 45 MW High Flux Reactor (HFR) is one of the most powerful
multi-purpose research and test reactors in Europe.
Activities include:
• Nuclear fission and fusion energy research
• Providing neutron beams for analytical applications (e.g.,
neutron activation analysis, neutron radiography) and further
research (solid state physics, materials science, medical
therapy);
• Producing radioisotopes for scientific, industrial and medical
purposes
JRC Large Scale Research
Infrastructure
Two Accelerator Laboratories
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150 MeV Linear Electron Accelerator
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7 MV Van de Graaff accelerator driven
quasi mono-energetic neutron source
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Neutron data for modelling:
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- Nuclear waste transmutation studies
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- Safe operation of nuclear power
plants
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- Modelling of ageing reactors
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- Understanding safety issues of
innovative reactor concepts
JRC Large Scale Research
Infrastructure
EU Reference Laboratories
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Feed additives
Heavy metals in feed and food
Mycotoxins
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)
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GMOs in Food and Feed
Food Contact Materials
Objectives:
• Set up EU-wide standards for testing methods
• Organise comparative tests, train analysts from national
laboratories and improve their performance in
measurements
• Know international standards and practices
• Keep lists of reference substances and their suppliers
• Coordinate a network of National Reference Laboratories
JRC Large Scale Research
Infrastructure
ELSA
European Laboratory for Structural Assessment (ELSA)
• Reaction wall facility
• Largest facility of its kind in Europe and one of the largest
in the world - only exceeded in Japan
• Consists of an extremely stiff vertical wall and a horizontal
floor, made of reinforced concrete, rigidly connected
together
• By means of computer controlled hydraulic actuators
mounted on the reaction-wall, is it possible to expose full
scale structures to loads of dynamic strong forces and
control the resulting movements with high precision.
• Pseudo-dynamic test (PSD) technique - simulation of
earthquake loading of full-scale buildings
JRC Large Scale Research
Infrastructure
VELA
The Vehicle Emissions Laboratories (VELA)
• equipped with the most advanced facilities
and instrumentation
• allows the physical/chemical and
toxicological characterisation of the
emissions from all types of transport fleet
• research lines of VELA cover all
environmental aspects related to advanced
technologies, new engines and aftertreatment systems, new or reformulated
fuels, bio-fuels, gaseous fuels and
assessment of future vehicle concepts and
technologies
JRC Large Scale Research
Infrastructure
Indoortron
• The Indoortron laboratory is a unique, 30 m3 volume walk-in environmental
chamber featuring controlled temperature, relative humidity, air quality, and air
exchange rate.
• With the indoortron laboratory we can study the sources of indoor pollution by
volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and evaluate human exposure to these
compounds and their impact on human health and comfort.
More examples - Large
Scale Facilities
BREFs
• For the purpose of achieving integrated control of consumptions of energy, water
and raw materials as well as prevention of pollution to water, air and soil, the
European Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control Bureau (EIPPCB) was set up
in JRC in 1997
• Best Available Techniques Reference Documents (BREFs) - result from an
exchange of technical information between experts from industry, Member States,
research institutes and NGOs. This exchange is catalysed by the EIPPCB, which
sets up a technical working group for each BREF.
• Each BREF is the outcome of a two to three year process involving up to 100
experts
• EIPPCB has produced more than 30 BREFs since 1997
More examples - Large
Scale Facilities
The JRC runs a number of large-scale facilities across Europe focused on air
quality and climate change.
It has one of the two stations in Italy serving the UN-ECE’s European
Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (EMEP), which monitors :
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concentrations of carbon monoxide (CO),
ground level ozone (O3) and
secondary aerosol precursors (SO2, NOx).
concentrations of heavy metals and particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5),
chemical compositions
negotiated with the UN Convention on Long-Range
Transboundary Air Pollution.
More examples - Large
Scale Facilities
The JRC runs a number of large-scale facilities across Europe focused on air
quality and climate change.
Including stations for the:
European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (EMEP)The
European Reference Laboratory for Air Pollution (ERLAP)
• a facility which contributes to the correct development and implementation
of Air Quality Directives in Europe.
• It works on the harmonisation and standardisation of measurement
techniques, carries out measurement campaigns with mobile laboratories in
specific areas, analyses the chemical composition of toxic and carcinogenic
compounds and develops reference and alternative measurement methods.
• In 2009, ERLAP organised a ship emissions measurement
campaign and helped to improve the knowledge about emissions
from marine traffic.
More examples - Large
Scale Facilities
And many more...
• Plant Simulation Testing Laboratory
• Non Destructive Evaluation Facilities
• Material and Component Performance Labs
• Hydrogen high pressure tank testing bunker
• Large scale Fuel Cell testing Facility
• Hot cells, Radium 226 hot cell
• Pyrometallurgy
• Trace analyses
• Major Accident Hazards Bureau
• Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System GDACS
• Including stations for the:
• European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (EMEP)The
• European Reference Laboratory for Air Pollution (ERLAP)
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Serving society
Stimulating innovation
Supporting legislation
Joint Research Centre (JRC)
www.jrc.ec.europa.eu
Contact: [email protected]
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