Call for Proposals for Individual Scientific Employment Call 2018

Applications for the second edition of Call  2018 Individual Scientific EmploymentCall  will be accepted until February 20, 2019. The Call the hiring of 300 researchers at four levels—junior, assistant, principal, and coordinator.

Doctoral graduates in all scientific fields who wish to carry out scientific research or technological development in Portugal, integrated into R&D units funded by the FCT, are eligible to apply. In their application, researchers must indicate their host institution, which must associate itself with the respective application by March 6, 2019. Only then will applications be considered complete.

The evaluation is carried out by an international panel of recognized merit. The candidate's scientific background, with an emphasis on the last 5 years, accounts for 70% of the evaluation, and the proposed research plan accounts for the remaining 30%. The research plan must be in line with the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Selected researchers are hired by the identified host institution, through funding from the FCT.

The Call Individual Scientific Employment 2018’ is one of the funding mechanisms provided for in the Scientific Employment Regulation, launched by FCT in 2017 with the aim of supporting the systematic strengthening of scientific employment in the SCTN, increasing employment opportunities for PhD holders and promoting scientific employment after graduation. Through a diversified framework of support for scientific employment, it ensures the reduction of precariousness in scientific research, institutional rejuvenation, and the attractiveness of the national territory for science and technology.

This is the second edition of CEEC Individual. In its first edition, in 2017, 500 places were awarded to PhD researchers. The preliminary review of Call is currently underway, with the evaluation of more than two-thirds of the applications submitted already completed. The final results of CEEC Individual 2017 will be announced before the end of the application period for CEEC Individual 2018.

The FCT also supports other scientific employment mechanisms, such as the 2018 Call for Institutional Scientific Employment Call , under which institutions are currently opening 400 Calls contracts funded by the FCT; thetransitional provisionof Decree-Law No. 57/2016, amended by Law No. 57/2017, under which approximately 2,000 employment contracts will be funded; the latest edition ofCall projectsin all scientific fields, under which 1,600 PhD researchers are funded; and the2017/2018 Evaluationprocess for R&D Units, which will include the award of 400 employment contracts for researchers.