This question is the backbone of BREATH, a European project funded by the Horizon Europe programme that brings together academia, industry, public institutions, and innovation ecosystems to strengthen talent ecosystems for Early-Career Researchers (ECRs).
BREATH is launching a survey addressed to organisations involved in researcher development, human resources, training, or organisational management within the health innovation sector.
The survey focuses on:
- Organisational motivations and challenges in engaging with talent ecosystems
- Institutional approaches to supporting early-career researchers (R1 and R2 profiles)
- Barriers to collaboration across academia, industry, and public administration
- Opportunities to improve researcher development, mobility, and retention
The survey takes approximately 15 minutes to complete and does not collect direct personal identifiers. All responses are handled confidentially and analysed anonymously. The aggregated findings will inform evidence-based recommendations, tools, and policy guidance at the European level.
ACCESS THE SURVEY HERE
YOUR CONTRIBUTION IS KEY!
What are the needs, perceptions, requirements, expectations, and motivations of our stakeholders?
Your response will help ensure that future Talent Ecosystem models in Health Innovation are grounded in organisational realities and aligned with the needs of institutions and researchers alike.
This work will establish a structured approach to collaboration among representatives from Catalonia, Flanders, and Lithuania, laying the groundwork for a bottom-up, demand-driven design of the BREATH Talent Ecosystems. These efforts will lead to future workshops, enabling a wide range of stakeholders to participate in co-creative activities and to define key aspects of the ecosystem’s governance and operation.
And finally…
Help us reach PhD holders and early-career researchers
In parallel, BREATH is also launching a complementary survey addressed to PhD holders and early-career researchers, aimed at better understanding their career experiences, needs, and challenges within and beyond academia. If you know colleagues, collaborators, or professionals with a PhD who may be interested in contributing, please share this SURVEY with them.
Their perspectives are essential to ensuring that the BREATH Talent Ecosystems respond to the real realities of research careers in Health Innovation.
For more information follow the BREATH project on LinkedIn and visit our website at www.breathproject.eu/
BREATH is funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme (Grant Agreement No. 101217137).
