First Institutional Call for Scientific Employment Programs is now open

(available only in Portuguese)

The Notice of the Call for the first institutional support tender procedure to fund 400 contracts for doctoral researchers has been published. The form will be available on February 22, and applications will be accepted until 5pm on March 22.

 The aim of the Call is to support the development of R&D activities, enshrining and stimulating the hiring of doctoral researchers by scientific institutions, through annual Calls addressed to these institutions or the networks they set up, considering support for scientific employment plans and the development of scientific careers by higher education institutions, state laboratories and other public or private scientific institutions.

Support for hiring doctoral researchers aims to support, deepen and specialize scientific research, technological development and S&T management and communication activities, geared towards carrying out scientific missions and challenges within the framework of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The aim is also to stimulate scientific employment by hiring doctoral researchers to carry out research and technological development activities, within the institutional contexts that characterize the national scientific and technological system (STCN), including institutional network cooperation, as well as strengthening the conditions for innovation and increasing the competitiveness of the productive, social and cultural fabric.

This call for proposals, coordinated by António Cunha and António Rendas, is being held under the Scientific Employment Regulation on the opening of institutional Calls to support scientific employment. It corresponds to the first Call opened under the Stimulus Program for Scientific Employment regarding institutional Calls , which will be followed by the opening of a second Call until March 2019.