ICREA fully condemns recent violent events, unjustified and unjustifiable, exercised in Catalonia yesterday. We express our rejection, our indignation and our outmost disapproval. We believe that the use of force against citizens is unacceptable in any democracy. 
   
Beyond the diverse personal political positions within the ICREA community, we have to reiterate that the only possible way out in any conflict, is dialogue and we will never cease to claim dialogue as the only legitimate means in a mature democracy.
 

Antonio Huerta

Director

After two and a half years of work, we have finally completed the Implementation Phase of the EURAXESS Human Resorces for Research Strategy (HRS4R') and have submitted the documents to the Euraxess authorities. The Action Plan, which constitutes the backbone of the strategy is already available here. It is also posted on the ICREA Transparency page where it will be permanently available.

The next step in the process is the assessment by the European Commission, which, if successful, will grant the HRS4R to ICREA. Two years later, we will prepare an interim report for assessment, and we and three years after that, there will be an on site visit and reaccreditation of ICREA.

The work has been possible thanks to all ICREA Research Professors who participated in the questionnaire and also those who have been contributiing with ideas and suggestions, and very especially to the members of the work group, who have been overseeing the task on a regular basis throughout the entire duration of the process:

• Prof. Anna Alberni – Universitat de Barcelona (UB)
• Prof. Núria Aliaga –Institut de Ciència dels Materials de Barcelona (CSIC- ICMAB)
• Prof. Joan Bagaria – Universitat de Barcelona (UB)
• Prof. Maria Garcia-Parajo – Institut de Ciències Fotòniques (ICFO)
• Prof. Ramon Miquel – Director,  Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE)
• Prof. José Luis Riechmann –  Director, Centre de Recerca Agrigenòmica (CRAG ) CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB
• Prof. Jeroen van den Bergh - Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA/UAB).
• Mr. Emilià Pola (Chair) -  Executive Director, ICREA

We are looking forward to proudly displaying the HR award logo on our site!