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The International Register of Academic Job Categories.
Facilitating Careers in the European Research Area
ERC Proof of Concept Grant 2017-2019, hosted by Warwick University and EHESS
Principal investigator: Johannes
Angermuller,
project coordinator: Francoise Dufour
Go to webpage here.
The Proof of Concept INTAC project will create a prototype of an online Register which
systematically lists, explains and compares formal job categories and status positions of research- and
teaching staff in 575 higher education institutions in France, Germany and Great Britain. It will set up
the Register on a public multilingual platform and provide resources for career-relevant decisionmaking
(such as career guidelines, CV templates, visualisation and mapping tools for career tracks and
status systems, identifier of job equivalents, a community forum). While international academic
mobility is growing at high rates and academic systems are rapidly changing, job-seekers as well as
recruiting institutions often grapple with the fact that job and status categories in academic institutions
(such as PRAG, Akademische Rätin or Teaching Fellow) are difficult to understand for those coming
from other institutions or systems. As a consequence, academics may not recognize the most suitable
career paths and academic institutions may not receive the best applications. Responding to a demand
from academics, employers, unions, associations and organisations in the higher education sector, the
INTAC Register aims to facilitate academic recruitments, make national and international academic
job markets more transparent and help academic career planning in the European Research Area. In
order to bring the Register to the market, INTAC will create a diversified revenue stream, including
regular premium user fees and licensing to academic social media. Future sponsors from the public
sector will be invited to commission more institutions, countries and service functions to be included
into the Register. INTAC draws on the comparative research of the ERC DISCONEX (“The
Discursive Construction of Academic Excellence”) project on categorizations and careers of academic
researchers in the UK, France, Germany and the U.S.
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