Course "New legislation and contractual aspects relating to personnel management in research projects"

The professional development path entitled "New legislation and contractual aspects relating to personnel management in research projects" will take place in Cagliari on 6 and 7 February 2024. This is a new training initiative organized by the European Research Desk of Sardegna Ricerche in collaboration with the Research and Quality Office of the University of Sassari and the Directorate for Research and Territory of the University of Cagliari.

The initiative aims to illustrate the main problems related to the legal and contractual issues of participation in research projects by staff of universities and research institutions. In particular, the amendments to Law 240/2010 determined by the Legislative Decree will be taken into consideration. 36/2022 converted into law 79/2022.

In particular, the following topics will be addressed:

- Permanent employees:
       ✓ Full time and fixed term;
        ✓ Third party accounts and staff incentives in grants (art. 1, co. 13, law 230/2005; art. 24, co. 6, legislative decree 165/2005; art. 9, law 240/2010) ;
       ✓ Incentive regulations for staff;
       ✓ Researcher status.

- Activities carried out at other institutions and consortia and academic spin-offs:
        ✓ Staff in agreements with the healthcare system;
       ✓ Secondment, command, leave of absence, agreements (art. 6, co. 11, law 240/2010), making staff available to consortia and other collective entities;
       ✓ Associated with research institutions.

- Fixed-term employees:
       ✓ Fixed-term researchers;
       ✓Fixed-term and permanent technologist.

- Contract staff:
       ✓ Research grants and research contracts (art. 22 law 240/2010 as amended by law 79/2022);
       ✓ PhD;
       ✓Specializations;
       ✓ Post-graduate scholarships;
       ✓ Collaborations;
       ✓ Occasional and professional services;
       ✓ Professors on contract.

- Other professional figures:
       ✓ Emeritus and honorary professors;
       ✓ Professors of Chiara Fama;
       ✓ Visiting Professor/Researcher (Foreign teachers and teaching and research assignments in Italy).

- Issues relating to specific programs with particular reference to European projects (in particular ERC and Marie Curie):
       ✓ Working relationship between Host Institution and Principal Investigator.

The course is aimed at staff of companies, universities, research centers and public bodies located in the regional territory who intend to present projects within the next Horizon Europe Programme.

The course will take place in Cagliari, in room 202 of the Manifattura Tabacchi, Viale Regina Margherita 33,  with the following calendar:
      – February 6: from 9:00 to 18:00
      – February 7: from 9:00 to 13:00

The European Research Desk reserves the right not to activate the event, notifying the registered participants, if the minimum number of participants is not reached or causes arise which could compromise the correct running of the course.

Participation in the training course is free and limited to a maximum of 40 participants, previously selected and divided into the following three profiles:
  Profile A: staff from companies, research centres, public bodies located in the regional territory (20 places)
  Profile B: staff or researchers of the University of Cagliari (10 places)
  Profile C: staff or researchers of the University of Sassari (10 places).

The following are excluded from participation in the training course:
- companies, bodies and freelancers who provide consultancy/training to third parties necessary for planning, assistance, reporting and monitoring for participation in national, European and international funding;
- natural persons not meeting the criteria set out in profiles A/B/C;
- training institutions or companies that provide training activities.

The enrollment application must be received by Friday 26 January 2024. Considering that one of the selection criteria for the places reserved for our University is given by the chronological order of submission of the applications and in order to guarantee equal opportunities (among those who may have already received the news directly from Sardegna Ricerche and those only via notice (email to all) from the University of Sassari), only registrations submitted after the sending of the Notice of 11 January will be taken into consideration. Therefore, those who have already submitted the application are invited to resubmit it by filling out the form again.

With regards to UNISS staff, given the limited number of places available, candidates will be selected on the basis of three criteria in the following order of priority:

1) classification at the University of Sassari: priority is given in the following order: professors, researchers, permanent and fixed-term technical-administrative staff, research fellows, doctoral students, contract teachers, collaborators, scholarship holders, post-graduate students;
2) involvement in the field of European planning in terms of planning/management/reporting which must be attested for all candidates (with the exception of professors and researchers) by a declaration from the head of the structure they belong to which must be sent to the asai address @uniss.it within the closing deadlines for applications; in the absence of this certification, the priority envisaged by this criterion cannot be assigned;
3) chronological order of submission of the request to participate in the course (starting from the sending of the notice from the University of Sassari on 11 January).

Once the deadlines for submitting applications for participation have passed, those admitted to the training course will be sent a confirmation email to which they must respond within the deadlines indicated in the communication under penalty of forfeiture of the place and scrolling of the waiting list.

Please remember that for the purposes of participation it is necessary to verify the conditions set out in the "Regulations for the organization of training activities for the technical, administrative and library staff of the University of Sassari" approved by the Board of Directors on 13 January 2022.

Any inability to participate in the course by those admitted must be promptly communicated in order to allow the ranking to move forward and full coverage of the assigned places.

Participation in part of the training activities is not permitted and a certificate of participation will not be issued to those who have not attended the total hours of attendance required and have not completed the course satisfaction questionnaire.