What does the Recognition & Rewards programme ultimately seek to achieve?

We work together on a culture change towards creating room for academics to develop their range of talents. The guiding principle is that everyone’s talent counts. This requires a modernisation of the system of recognition and rewards, in which we:

• 🚶‍♀️create more dynamic differentiation in career paths 🚶;
  
  

• 💡 place more emphasis on the quality of work and less on quantitative results;
  
  

• 👥 do justice to individual academic achievements and ambitions as well as to contributions that serve collective goals;
  
  

• 👑 encourage high-quality leadership;
  
  

• 👐 and stimulate open science.

The Recognition & Rewards programme represents a major culture change in academia. The ambitions require a unified and integrated approach in which national and international coordination between all parties is essential. Complex change issues, such as reforming the system of recognition and rewards for academics, require a dialogue-based approach to change. This approach starts by creating an open discussion climate in which people can safely speak their mind and are specifically encouraged to express (differing) opinions. The approach to change ultimately focuses on behavioural change, cultural embedding, and new structures and systems that contribute to this.