Scientific Employment Observatory

Observatory data was updated on April 22, 2019.

The Ministry of Science, Technology, and Higher Education has launched theScientific Employment Observatory, a pilot project to monitor the implementation of new scientific employment legislation.

Ongoing monitoring of processes associated with the hiring of PhD graduates identifies the number of researchers and teachers hired and the number of mechanisms in place, totaling more than 5,000 contracts (see detailed information in "General Counter"). These mechanisms include, among others, the various instruments managed by the FCT to stimulate the hiring of PhDs, either through fixed-term contracts or for career entry, such as the 2018 Call the stimulation of institutional scientific employment, the results of which have already been announced, the Call the stimulation of individual scientific employment, which is in the process of being concluded, the 2017 R&D projects in all scientific fields, currently in the contracting phase, the ongoing evaluation of R&D units, and the implementation of the transitional provision of Decree-Law 57/2016, through program contracts proposed to institutions.

The Scientific Employment Observatory is a pilot project for monitoring scientific employment, which tracks the opening of Calls for researchers and PhD professors in public and private institutions, within the scope of various lines of scientific employment incentives (i.e., individual and institutional support, support for R&D units, support for R&D projects, and transitional rules), as well as Calls recruitment Calls for teaching or research careers. It also includes monitoring the regularization of the hiring of employees in general careers, with a special focus on the regularization of science and technology management fellows.

News originally published on July 12, 2018.
(Continuously updated)