Opening of the Call 'Individual Scientific Employment Stimulus 2017'

FCT announces the opening of the Call ' Incentive to Individual Scientific Employment 2017 ' , which aims to individually finance 500 contracts for PhD researchers in all scientific areas . Registration is open until February 16, 2018 .

All PhDs of any nationality or stateless persons, with training in any scientific area, who intend to carry out their scientific research or technological development activity in Portugal, integrated into R&D units financed by the FCT, may apply.

The following reference categories are considered:

a) Junior researcher: PhD with limited post-doctoral research experience or without a scientific curriculum after the PhD in the scientific area to which he/she is applying.

b) Assistant researcher: PhD for more than 5 years, with a relevant curriculum in the scientific area to which he/she is applying, without the requirement to demonstrate scientific independence.

c) Principal researcher: PhD for more than 5 years, with a relevant curriculum in the scientific area to which he/she is applying, demonstrating scientific independence in the last 3 years.

d) Coordinating researcher: PhD for more than 5 years, holder of the title of qualified or associate, with a curriculum of high merit in the scientific area to which he/she is applying, demonstrating scientific independence and with evidence of leadership in the scientific area to which he/she is applying.

In their application, to be submitted electronically in English, candidates must indicate the host institutions where they will conduct their research. In turn, host institutions must join the respective applications.

The evaluation, to be carried out by an international panel of recognized merit, will focus on the candidate's trajectory and the proposed research plan, which must be framed within the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

The selected researchers are hired directly by the identified host institution, through FCT funding.

THE Call 'Individual Scientific Employment Stimulus 2017' is one of the new funding mechanisms provided for in the Scientific Employment Regulation , launched by the FCT this year, which aims to systematically reinforce scientific employment in the SCTN, increasing employment pathways and opportunities for PhDs and making scientific employment effective after the PhD. Through a diversified framework of support for scientific employment, the reduction of precariousness in scientific research links, institutional rejuvenation and the attractiveness of the national territory for science and technology are guaranteed.

New ones will be opened in 2018 and 2019 Calls of 'Stimulus to Individual Scientific Employment'.