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TURI mobility support - short report from first round now available
The network of Trade Union-related Research Institutes (TURI) launched the first round of the TURI mobility support in January 2009. The provision aims at enhancing the capacity building aspect of the network by supporting the exchange of knowledge and expertise between the participating institutes and thereby creating a real community of trade union related experts at the EU level. The main idea of the mobility support is that researchers from the TURI members (and under conditions external researchers, see call) are hereby given the possibility to spend between one and three months at one of the following TURI host institutes: ETUI (Brussels), OSE (Brussels), IRES (Paris), LRD (London), Fundacion 1° de Mayo (Madrid), Sindnova (Rome), IRES Rome (Rome), Hans Böckler Stiftung (Düsseldorf), WSI (Düsseldorf) and IMK (Düsseldorf).
By the deadline for the submission of the applications, i.e. 30 January 2009, altogether 9 researchers had submitted their application (CV and motivation letter) to the contact person of their preferred host institute (s). Out of these 9 researchers only 3 are employed at an institute member of the TURI network – 2 of them at Fafo and 1 at WSI. All 3 of them have been awarded a TURI mobility grant. The Norwegian researchers will spend each of them 1 month at the WSI. The WSI researcher will stay at the ETUI for a period of 3 months.
Due to the positive reception of some of the other applications, another 3 TURI mobility grants were awarded. A researcher from the Warwick Business School will stay for 3 months at IRES Paris. Another researcher from the same institute has already completed her research at the 1st of May Foundation in Madrid and lastly, a Latvian trade union official will spend 3 months as guest researcher at the LRD in London.
An Australian researcher from the Workplace Research Institute of the University of Sidney has also applied for the TURI mobility support but has been awarded instead a contract for his research project at the HBS.