ITN 2015 Info-Day

Best practices: Examples from the Implementation

of the European Charter for Researchers and The Code of Conduct for the Recruitment

of researchers for an ITN project

Joachim Curtius Institute for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences

Goethe University Frankfurt

ITN 2015 Info-Day: "A focus on implementation"

Brussels

18 December 2015

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The CLOUD project at CERN

Study atmospheric new particle

formation processes and

aerosol-cloud-climate interactions

Role of Galactic Cosmic Rays

for aerosols and climate.

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CLOUD and the ITN project scheme – a perfect fit

CLOUD-ITN (2008-2012)

CLOUD-TRAIN (2012-2016)

ITN fellows from 10 institutions

come together at CERN to

conduct experiments together

at the unique CLOUD aerosol

chamber

CLOUD-ITN and CLOUD-TRAIN

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CLOUD-TRAIN

Networking:

CLOUD experiment at CERN as focal point of the Network

excellent Research Environment at CERN…

Excellent training by fixed daily meetings (“3 o’clock meeting”)

Superb team building, working very close together, 24/7!

Skype conferences, cross-institutional analysis working groups

Numerous other network activities, e.g. data workshops

Cooperation of partners beyond CLOUD-TRAIN:

e.g. complementary atmospheric measurements at Jungfraujoch

Interaction with private sector: Tofwerk, Ionicon, TSI, Airmodus,

Aerodyne, all world-leading manufacturers of instrumentation...

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Implementation of

European Charter for Researchers

Recruitment

All recruitment procedures were conducted according to the Code of Conduct for the

Recruitment of the Researchers.

Advertisements of the available positions were made at the EURAXESS portal and at

the other facilities and platforms.

Selection procedure was transparent and understandable for all applicants. All of the

partners consulted the project management team on questions of the eligibility criteria

of the candidates. Variations in the chronological order of CVs were not penalised.

Gender balance

CLOUD-ITN: 14 recruited researchers: 5 female, 9 male, (36%)

CLOUD-TRAIN: 15 recruited researchers: 8 female, 7 male, (53%)

Co-authorship

Authorship and co-authorship rules for scientific papers are clearly defined in the CLOUD

constitution. The authorship of the scientific publications is discussed within the entire

CLOUD collaboration during special paper planning sessions at every collaboration

meeting. The list of planned papers is updated and proposals for new papers are added

during the collaboration meetings while all the potential co-authors are present. First

authors and “core author teams”, time lines, journal choices, etc. are defined and

discussed for each paper. The Paper Committee is established for overseeing the

paper writing, the internal review, editing and submission process. The paper committee

helps to check for consistency among the papers and checks that paper contents do

not overlap.

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Implementation of

European Charter for Researchers

Professional responsibility, Accountability, Good Practice in Research

Sessions on Good Scientific Practice during summer schools.

Strict scrutiny with measurements and interpretation.

Repeatability and redundancy of measurements.

Very open discussions during 3 o'clock meetings

and data workshops.

Relation with supervisors

A Research and Training Plan (and CDP) is developed by the young researchers

together with their supervisors.

Frequent, minuted meetings with the supervisor and PhD Advisory Committee

are part of the contractual obligations.

Group meetings and seminars are conducted regularly.

Oliver Bischof (associated partner) acts as "ombudsperson"

in case of disputes, problems, complaints or appeals.

Participation in decision-making bodies

2 ESRs (elected by the ESRs) participate in the decision-making bodies

(Supervisory Board, Paper Committee)

"Townhall meeting"

Co-authorship

Authorship and co-authorship rules for scientific papers are clearly defined in the CLOUD

constitution. The authorship of the scientific publications is discussed within the entire

CLOUD collaboration during special paper planning sessions at every collaboration

meeting. The list of planned papers is updated and proposals for new papers are added

during the collaboration meetings while all the potential co-authors are present. First

authors and “core author teams”, time lines, journal choices, etc. are defined and discussed

for each paper. The Paper Committee is established for overseeing the paper writing, the

internal review, editing and submission process. The paper committee helps to check for

consistency among the papers and checks that paper contents do not overlap.

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CLOUD-TRAIN

Public Engagement

Website: www.cloud-train.eu

Highlights der Physik, Night of Science, …

Very large media coverage for

Kirkby et al., Nature, 2011 and

Almeida et al., Nature, 2013

Interaction with other ITNs:

presentation at SPOT-ITN conference

TEDx-Ed: Animated Video Lesson

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Implementation of

European Charter for Researchers

Co-authorship

Authorship rules for scientific papers are clearly defined in the CLOUD constitution.

The authorship of the scientific publications is discussed within the entire CLOUD

collaboration during special paper planning sessions at every collaboration meeting.

The list of planned papers is updated and proposals for new papers are added during

the collaboration meetings while all the potential co-authors are present.

First authors and “core author teams”, time lines, journal choices, etc. are defined

and discussed for each paper.

A Paper Committee is established for overseeing the paper writing, the internal review,

editing and submission process.

The paper committee helps to check for consistency among the papers and checks that

paper contents do not overlap.

CLOUD produced ~40 papers within the last 5 years. Several ESRs finished their PhD

with 2 first author and >15 co-author papers.

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CLOUD

By now established as world-leading experiment

for atmospheric nucleation studies

2 x Nature, 1 x Science, 2 x PNAS

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CLOUD chamber

The T11 beam area in April 2009:

…we started from scratch…

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Thank you for your attention!

First experiments in December 2009,…

…more than 1800 experiments by now.

©Andri Pol