Permanent updating of research teams in R&D units (2021)

All staff directly involved in the R&D unit's research and development activities, whether they have a doctorate or not, such as researchers and people who provide services directly linked to R&D activities, namely R&D managers, technical staff in R&D activities and other staff supporting R&D activities.

You can consult here the concept and examples of R&D activities that correspond to those adopted in the 2020 National Scientific and Technological Potential Survey by the Directorate-General for Education and Science Statistics.

Data is requested on the member of staff, including level of training, participation in the team and professional situation. The data requested on the professional situation will be more detailed if the member has a contract financed through the funding awarded by FCT to the R&D unit. In these cases, you will also be asked to upload the contract and the recruitment Call notice. All fields in the member's registration are compulsory except those marked as optional.

In the process of registering a team member, data such as the level of training and professional status are automatically filled in whenever there is a match with the public nominative register of the Observatory of Scientific and Teaching Employment (OECD) developed by the Directorate-General for Education and Science Statistics.

No, the data of the team members is registered by the users of the R&D units on the permanent team update platform, including team entry and exit dates.

According to the Research Fellow Statute (EBI), article 5, the performance of duties as a research fellow is carried out on an exclusive dedication basis. A scholarship holder belongs to the team of the R&D unit that is included in the respective approved work plan, or to which the Studentship supervisor belongs, except when there are collaborations authorized by the Studentship 's funding entity in other R&D units under no. 4 of article 5 of the EBI.

Yes, you can, as a collaborator.

The FTE is based on a full calendar year and is calculated for team members on the basis of the information entered in the platform fields "% of dedication in this team" and "date of % of dedication".

The Frascati Manual's definition of TSI is as follows:

"The full-time equivalent (FTE) of R&D personnel is defined as the proportion of working hours actually spent on R&D during a specific reference period (usually a calendar year) divided by the total number of hours conventionally worked in the same period by an individual or a group."

The teams assigned to the Associate Laboratories are updated automatically once the teams of the units that make up the Associate Associate Laboratories have been updated on the platform. FCT considers the integrated PhD researchers indicated by the respective R&D units on the platform to be part of the Associate Laboratories ' teams.