New Scientific Employment Instruments

The Draft Regulation on Scientific Employment is available on the FCT website. The draft will be up for public consultation for 30 days after publication in the Diário da República, which should be soon. Comments can be sent to info.ec@fct.pt.

Consistent with Decree-Law 57/2016, the normal contract for research carried out by doctoral graduates must be a contract. Support for Scientific Employment is therefore a priority for the FCT. Therefore, this regulation aims to create two support instruments to stimulate scientific employment, the first Calls which should take place in 2017:

(1) Support for the hiring of doctoral researchers in all scientific areas and their integration into research units funded by the FCT and their respective host institutions, direct support for the hiring of doctoral researchers, through annual Calls promoted by the FCT, in order to facilitate the continuous and systematic integration of new doctoral graduates into scientific institutions.

(2) Support for scientific employment plans and the development of scientific careers by higher education institutions, state laboratories and public or private scientific institutions, support for the development of R&D activities by enshrining and stimulating, among other things, the hiring of doctoral researchers by scientific institutions, through annual Calls addressed to the institutions and promoted by the FCT.

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