Abstract:

Horizon 2020 is the biggest EU Research and Innovation programme ever. The specific objective is to build effective cooperation between science and society, to recruit new talent for science and to pair scientific excellence with social awareness and responsibility.

Recruiting talent is therefore desired but afterwards talent needs to be developed and leaders are responsible for it in their organizations. Among the tasks expected for a talent-developer the following can be cited: behave as a role model, enhance the value of learning, generate sustainable processes to support development, reinforce shared values and leverage problems as opportunities. Thus, this work is focused on the building of processes providing sustainability to the talent development. In this sense, it is worth mentioning that EIDOS, a research group in Materials Science (University of the Basque Country) has been developing and improving its own management system for the last eight years. The model has been adopted recent innovations like its alignment with the advanced management model created by the foundation Euskalit (Basque Country). In this context, the work describes the process designed by EIDOS to develop the talent of its people, with particular attention to doctorates. The process connects both scientific and transversal skills with the current priority research fields. At the same time, the process takes into account creativity, scientific policies (European, Spanish and Basque) and the key processes of the organization: generation and diffusion of knowledge, getting financial, and formation of doctorates. As a result, this work provides a scenario for research groups to enable talent to develop.

Keywords:

Doctorates, talent, materials science.