On 25 June, during a Senate meeting, the Rector of the Medical University of Warsaw, Mirosław Wielgoś, presented appointments to more than a dozen young Polish researchers who will form a new university advisory body. Prof. Piotr H. Skarżyński, MD, PhD, MSc, joined the Young Scientists Council. Appointees under 40 were selected using the university’s ranking of 100 scientific leaders for 2015–2017.
The Young Scientists Council was established to bring together the university’s young researchers. It advises the Rector and will provide a forum for discussing scientific careers, monitoring young researchers’ achievements and improving the effectiveness of research grant applications.
Its main tasks will include identifying existing and future barriers to young scientists’ careers, recommending career support tools and explaining research funding mechanisms. Council members will enrich the university’s Human Resource Strategy for Researchers, safeguard the HR Excellence in Research distinction, support recruitment and competitions, and implement provisions of the university’s Development Strategy aimed at beneficial staffing and recruitment changes.
The council’s establishment forms part of science and higher education reform prioritising dynamic career development for young Polish researchers and regulations that allow their talents to be released and used more fully.
More information: www.wum.edu.pl
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