Young and Early Career Researchers and Innovators TeamWhy?Over the last two decades, a surge of PhD researchers has successfully bridged the boundaries between research contexts and the artistic and cultural sectors. Despite their potential in addressing societal needs through artistic and cultural practices, institutional frameworks have not often followed the transformative capacities that these researchers represent in knowledge production, technological innovation, cultural diversity, and social change. This is even more evident when it comes to young and early-career researchers, where the practice of artistic research is often contingent upon an academic position or precarious employment opportunities in short-term research projects or cultural events. Aligned with the European Charter of Researchers*, Artistic Intelligence aims to:
What?The Young Researcher Coordinator (YRC) role involves actively integrating YRI (Young Researchers and Innovators under 40 years old) and Early Career Researchers* into the network, boosting their participation, organising specific events (like Training Schools, STSMs), promoting their careers by entrusting them with positions of responsibility within the Action, ensuring gender balance, and fostering inter-generational exchange for career growth. How?Engagement: Foster a community of practice within the Artistic Intelligence network to ensure that young and/or early career researchers are actively involved in all Action activities, including meetings and events. Event Organisation: Assist in organising YRI-ECR specific events, such as training schools, workshops, exhibitions, and alternative formats for disseminating artistic research. Mentorship: Facilitate connections between YRI, ECR and senior researchers for mentorship and collaboration. Inclusiveness: Promote gender balance and diversity within the YRI-ECR community. Coordination: Work with the Core Group to support YRI-ECR activities. Alliance: Reaching out to other networks and artistic research organisations to create alliances that foster the representativeness of young and early-career researchers. Although the Artistic Intelligence network has decided to focus on two target groups for this initiative — Young Researchers and Innovators (under 40 years old) and Early Career Researchers — the COST Association is offering a dedicated conference grant for which applicants must meet the YRI criteria. Other grants, such as Short-Term Scientific Missions and training schools, are open to both target groups (YRIs and ECRs). *https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ:C_202301640 * Early Career Researchers target researchers at Master's and doctoral level, including graduates up to five years after completing a doctoral degree.
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