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Research Excellence and Capacity Building: Understanding the Current Trends and Issues in Researcher Mobility

23/01/2017

Researcher mobility is important for two main reasons. First, the existence of huge and complex global issues today - including health and environmental challenges - requiring international and collaborative research efforts to try to find effective solutions. The second is that mobility helps researchers, especially young researchers and those at an early stage of their career, to develop professionally, academically and personally by enabling them to acquire new skills and experiences, and thus become more effective researchers.