What is a researcher? European Commission defines roles and responsibilities
The European Commission has today adopted a European Charter for Researchers and a Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. [...]
700.000 additional researchers are deemed necessary to attain the objective of 3% of EU GDP for R&D and at the same time replace the ageing workforce in research. Although the number of researchers in the EU rose slightly from 5.4 per 1000 workforce in 1999 to 5.7 in 2001, this is well below the level in other countries that invest more (USA 8.1; Japan 9.1).
The potential shortage of researchers could pose a serious threat to the EU?s innovation, knowledge and productivity in the near future and may hamper the attainment of the Lisbon and Barcelona objectives.
