18 Annual Report 2015 | Annual Highlights
CREAF RECEIVES THE ‘HR EXCELLENCE IN RESEARCH’ AWARD FROM THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION CREAF has elaborated a Human Resources Strategy for Researchers (HRS4R), incorporating the principles of the European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers promoted by the European Commission (EC). The HRS4R of CREAF is based on an internal analysis and it deploys an Action Plan with a set of scheduled actions inspired in the Charter and Code principles and endorsed by a set of internal rules and practices.
CREAF NOW HAS ITS OWN WEB PORTAL FOR OPEN ACCESS PUBLICATIONS IN THE UAB REPOSITORY CREAF has committed to provide open and cost-free access to the scientific information generated with public funds, coming into line with European tendencies which promote the rules set in the Horizon 2020 funding plan. Towards this goal, the centre coordinated with the Science and Technology Library of the UAB to create a specific web portal within its repository of digital documents. The portal is already active and has more than 300 open access documents, including doctoral theses, science dissemination documents, scientific articles, projects, and reports, among other types of content.
PACO LLORET IS THE NEW PRESIDENT OF THE AEET In June 2015 CREAF researcher Francisco Lloret was chosen as the new president of the Spanish Association of Terrestrial Ecology (AEET), a society of more than 700 researchers and professionals in the field of terrestrial ecology, and home of the journal Ecosistemas.