The Human resources strategy for Researchers, also called “HRS4R”, aims to improve the practices of research institutions and funding organisations working in the field of research regarding the researchers’ recruitment and career. It is the subject of a label “HR Excellence in Research” granted by the European Commission to establishments engaged in this process.
This tool aims to implement the European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers (C&C) – updated in 2023 – for researchers’ mobility and career, and make the European Research Area more attractive in terms of recruitment and working conditions for researchers worldwide.
The Charter & the Code are structured around four key pillars:
- ethics, integrity, gender and open science;
- evaluation, recruitment and career progression of researchers;
- working conditions and methods;
- careers in research and talent development.
The human resources strategy for Researchers at EHESP
The EHESP has been committed to continuously improving its human resources strategy concerning the recruitment and working conditions of researchers. In 2017, the EHESP obtained from the European Commission the “HR Excellence in Research” award for its European Resources Strategy for Researchers (HRS4R) implementation. Renewed in December 2025, this certification confirm the EHESP’s participation in the construction of the European Research Area and the quality of its human resources policy.
Self-assesments and successive action plans:
2017
Download the initial HRS4R file for EHESP (pdf, 1 Mo)
Read the article “EHESP School of Public Health obtains European HRS4R label”
2019
Discover EHESP’s 2019 interim self-assessment and 2020-2022 action plan (pdf, 2 Mo)
2023
Discover EHESP’s 2023 self-assessment and 2023-2026 action plan (pdf – 2 Mo)
2025
Read the European Commission Concensus Report (pdf – 4 Mo)
Read the article “The European Commission renews EHESP’s ‘HR Excellence in Research’ Award”
Key documents
Recruitment process for contractual research lecturers and expert lecturers (pdf – 545 kb)
Single University of Rennes charter on publication signatures (In French – pdf, 662 kb)