Eurodoc wants to enable academics to represent democracy within and outside of their institutions
An organisation for European early-career researchers is restarting an ambassador scheme, with a new focus on anchoring higher education in “a shared understanding of values and democracy”.
The European Council of Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers (Eurodoc) announced on 17 September that it was reviving the ambassador programme it ran in 2018-19, when the focus was on opening up research for scrutiny and reuse of its results.
“The aim of the ambassador programme is to enable academics…to deepen their understanding and to become ambassadors for democracy and the European Higher Education Area fundamental values within their institutions, their research communities and society,” it said.
“Particularly in this moment, when both democracy and many of the fundamental values, such as academic freedom and autonomy, are under threat across Europe, it is crucial to ensure that we as the academic community have a concrete, shared understanding thereof to strengthen and safeguard both higher education and democracy.”
The programme is open to academics at any career stage from PhD students onwards, but the interest of early-career academics is particularly encouraged, “as current early career researchers will eventually become the senior faculty”.
It will take the form of an expert lecture course and online workshops, and is due to launch in the spring. Eurodoc is inviting people to register for more information.
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