Good Practices and Innovations in Public Governance 2003-2011

Good Practices and InnovATIONS in Public Governance
million. Another project is PharmNet.Bund, in the portfolio of the Federal Ministry
of Health. Pharmnet.Bund, which is intended to establish a central, reliable database
of approved medicinal products, is also designed to help disabled people return to a
job and increase their chances in the job market. The costs are estimated at just over
€1.7 million.
Thus, despite the official end of the Tandem Partnerships in Science initiative, the
network for integration projects continues to grow, as former participants and new
ones continue to communicate and promote the integration concept.
Lessons Learned
The success of the networks for the integration of disabled people in science can be
seen by the fact that the networks persist beyond the term of the Tandem Partnerships
in Science initiative, and work is being done on new projects. Since 2009, for instance,
jointly with partners from the network, the PEI is integrating disabled graduates
with bachelor’s degrees into existing research groups. By participating in ongoing
research and contributing to quality science publications, they can enhance their
employment qualifications. Initially, there were some issues involving structural difficulties.
However, by involving the different partners, we were able to obtain structural
improvements in the legal funding options for disabled science staff. This enabled
representatives of practical working life and representatives of executive and
the legislative bodies to maintain new relationships. In the final analysis, it was also
a challenge to design a concept that integrated the relations between companies, authorities
and academic institutes and to experience the addition of these concepts in
other areas. Each participant had up to now made efforts to integrate disabled and/or
unemployed people into the working world, but it was not until the participants themselves
interacted, that synergy effects were achieved for the integration of qualified
disabled and/or unemployed scientists. In this way, new joint steps were developed,
evaluated, and implemented successfully.
Contact Information
Ms. Andrea Fruecht
Assistant Head of Unit Personnel
Paul-Ehrlich-Institut: Federal Agency for Vaccines and Biomedicines
Paul-Ehrlich-Strasse 51-59
Langen 63225
Germany
Tel: 0049 6103 77 1105
Fax: 0049 6103 77 1260
E-mail: fruan@pei.de
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