2016 ENCATC Young Researcher's Forum

Emilia Petrikova is a co-author of Bratislava Declaration of Young Researchers. She is a young researcher working in a field of oncology. Emilia is studying medicine at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. She has experiences from Mayo Clinic and Berkeley University in the USA and from University of Heidelberg in Germany. At the age of fourteen, Emilia started doing research. Her work on the effect of aspirin as a treatment supporter against cancer gained great interest and lead to several international prizes, including Special prize at European Union Contest for Young Scientists and silver medal at International Young Investors Project Olympiad. Emilia also represented the EU at the biggest international science competition, Intel ISEF. She is an organizer of several international science events, lecturer and reviewer of medical publications. A European panel on the Role of universities in cultural management and policies programmes in Mena regions Abstract The Bratislava Declaration of Young Researchers is a document which is aiming to represent aspirations, challenges and possible solutions of problems of early-stage researchers to policymakers on EU, national and institutional levels. Ten young researchers from different countries, areas of research and age groups have created the declaration, with a support from Slovak presidency of European Council and DG RTD from European Commission. We have presented the results at Informal Council of Ministers and it will be an annex of Council Conclusions.  Bratislava Declaration is build on four aspirations: enabling of great ideas and people, sustainable and transparent career trajectories, diverse and including research environment and healthy work-life balance. Our group described several proposals to fight the challenges to reach these aspirations, e.g. individual research grants, better structured and more sustainable research career trajectory and wide ratification of Athena SWAN-like charter.