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  • Aug 2025
  • Claartje Chajes
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let op: 13/07/2021 Bron: Cursor. Nog een lange weg te gaan met daarop de nodige beren Begin vorige week publiceerde Cursor een samenvatting van het interview dat rector Frank Baaijens heeft gegeven over de voortgang van Erkennen en Waarderen. Na de zomervakantie gaat het College van Bestuur er verder over in gesprek met de drie interfacultaire commissies. Baaijens presenteerde ook de zes uitgangspunten die leidend zijn bij de verdere uitrol,...

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Eindhoven University of Technology
  • Aug 2025
  • Claartje Chajes
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Bron: website Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, 13 augustus 2025 Cato Drion is universitair docent bij GELIFES (Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences) van de Faculteit Science & Engineering. Zij zit in een tenure track met focus op onderwijs, mogelijk dankzij het programma Erkennen & Waarderen. ‘Ik werkte als docent psychobiologie aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam, waar ik ook ben gepromoveerd. Ik had het echt naar mijn zin in Amsterd...

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Nieuwsrubriek
  • Jul 2025
  • Claartje Chajes
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De Rijksuniversiteit Groningen heeft gesprekskaarten ontwikkeld met voorbeeldvragen voor R&O gesprekken. In deze kaarten komen de thema's Erkennen & Waarderen, Sociale Veiligheid en Diversiteit en Inclusie samen. Let op: deze editie is nog een test/pilot!

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Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
  • Jul 2025
  • Claartje Chajes
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Deze aflevering van de blogserie over E&W van de Radboud Universiteit heb ik vorig jaar helaas over het hoofd gezien. Een relevante tekst, afkomstig van de website van de RU. Geschreven door: dr. G.M. Meibauer (Gustav) 30 mei 2024 Een systeem van Erkennen & Waarderen kan bijdragen aan een bloeiende en meer rechtvaardige universiteit. Het opzetten van zo'n veelomvattend systeem brengt echter een belangrijke uitdaging met zich mee: het nav...

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Nieuwsrubriek
  • Jul 2025
  • Claartje Chajes
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What is RRview? RRview is an online platform for and by the Dutch Recognition & Rewards community. It has an open and a private part. At the open part you find information, knowlede and new policy regarding to the system and culture shift Recognition & Rewards aims for. Here you can read more about the programme. In the private part of RRview, we share knowledge, develop dialogue, collaborate in groups and plan activities. If you want to contr...

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Q&A Recognition & Rewards
  • Jul 2025
  • Claartje Chajes
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At this stage, we are not yet where we want to be. It is not our intention that you suffer; we are happy to work with you to see how we can improve your situation. You can take several actions from here: Find who from your institution is involved in Recognition & Rewards in the red menu bar on the left via Connect and get in touch so they can help you further. Contact the national programme by sending an email to erkennenwaarderen@unl.nl Post ...

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Q&A Recognition & Rewards
  • Jul 2025
  • Claartje Chajes
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Spread the word, share practices, become a member of our online platform RRview, make sure for yourself that you fit into our new system of recognition and rewards, share it with us when you notice things to be improved. 💡 About spreading the word An important element of Recognition & Rewards is our collective motivation to re-vitalize the system of assessment, working conditions, responsibility for fair collaboration and personal leadership. ...

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Q&A Recognition & Rewards
  • Jul 2025
  • Claartje Chajes
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If you have a relevant practice according to the new culture or system of Recogniotion & Rewards, tell us! Become a member to leave a comment below and we'll pass it on. If you don't want to become a member, please contact Claartje Chajes (our communitymanager) via chajes@unl.nl.

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Q&A Recognition & Rewards
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  • Jul 2025
  • Claartje Chajes
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Please put your experience, opinion, concern, frustration or unexpected progress below as a comment. Thanks on forehand for the constructive tone!

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Q&A Recognition & Rewards
  • Jul 2025
  • Claartje Chajes
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There are concerns in the academic community about the international position of Dutch science in connection with the implementation of the Recognition & Rewards programme. These concerns have also been expressed in the House of Representatives. In response, the standing committee on Education, Culture and Science tabled a request in July 2022 to clarify how academic quality can be determined. In its letter of advice published in December 2022...

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Q&A Recognition & Rewards
  • Jul 2025
  • Claartje Chajes
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One of the objectives from the position paper Room for Everyone’s Talent (2019) is: focus on quality. In the paper, we argue that the implicit and overly one-sided emphasis on traditional, measurable output indicators (such as number of publications, h-index and journal impact factor) is partly responsible for the high workload. In addition, we argue that their use can upset the balance between academic disciplines and is inconsistent with the...

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Q&A Recognition & Rewards
  • Jul 2025
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With the Recognition & Rewards programme, we want to achieve a healthy and open academic culture. Supervisors are primarily responsible for creating a socially safe and inclusive working environment where teamwork, talent development, and (academic) integrity are paramount. We will ensure that there is a focus on good leadership at all job levels. Leadership training in line with the programme of Recognition & Rewards is mandatory in every D...

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Q&A Recognition & Rewards
  • Jul 2025
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One of the focal points of our position paper “Room for everyone talent in practice”, is that academic institutions create opportunities for dynamic career paths. The underlying idea is that an academic career cannot be an unwieldy mould that suits everyone, but should be approached as a route taken by individuals with specific talents and their own development path. The core domains of an acacemic remain research and teaching, with the possi...

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Q&A Recognition & Rewards
  • Jul 2025
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From the outset, the Recognition & Rewards programme has focused on academics. Several institutions have called for a broadening of the national programme. In the Room for Everyone’s Talent in Practice roadmap, the national Recognition & Rewards steering group promised that it would look into how the programme might help other groups within the institutions. The national steering group concludes that both approaches deserve support, as they bo...

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