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The Productive Research Environment (PRE) session at IPAC’25 explored practices and challenges in fostering sustainable and motivating research environments in the accelerator community. A preliminary survey of 51 managers and leaders revealed high levels of motivation during the early career stage, but also highlighted concerns regarding staffing shortages, budgetary constraints, and the long-term career prospects of young researchers. Session presentations addressed career experiences, sustainable institutional models, and survey-based perspectives across different career stages. The subsequent panel discussion engaged additional senior leaders and covered key themes including human resources and diversity, leadership development, mentorship and supervision, and intergenerational collaboration. The session concluded that clear goals, adequate resources, inclusive cultures, structured leadership and mentoring, and effective knowledge transfer are essential for productive research environments. Despite current limitations, the strong motivation of young researchers offers a promising foundation. Building on this, PRE aims to expand its surveys and sustain dialogue at future IPAC meetings to strengthen human resource capacity and foster diversity across the global accelerator community.These findings and perspectives will be reported and further discussed at the conference.