Recruitment guide

This guide addresses the recruitment of research personnel at the Romanian Institute of Science and Technology (RIST).

RIST scientists are funded through grants provided by the government, European funds or private donors; there are no permanent positions, no base funding nor any endowment. Grant proposals typically include, in the project’s team, nominated persons and eventual open positions. This guide addresses recruitment for open researcher positions, not the hiring of persons nominated in the grant proposals, nor the hiring of non-research personnel.

The recruitment of researchers in Romania is regulated by Law no. 183/2024 regarding the charter of research, development, and innovation personnel and its methodological norms approved by Government Decision no. 1568/2024. According to these regulations, our institute will have to define its internal regulation for recruitment of the research personnel.

RIST fully endorses the principles of the European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. In line with this endorsement, the institute is committed to the principles of open, transparent and merit-based recruitment (OTM-R) and has adopted an OTM-R policy based on the OTM-R toolkit developed by the Working Group of the Steering Group of Human Resources Management under the European Research area. The internal regulation for recruitment of the research personnel, once adopted, will upgrade and replace the current OTM-R policy.

Therefore, the recruitment of research personnel at RIST has to comply with: