Scientific Employment Observatory

Observatory data was updated on April 22, 2019.

The Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education has made available the Scientific Employment Observatory , a pilot project to monitor the application of the new scientific employment legislation.

Ongoing monitoring of processes associated with the hiring of PhDs identifies the number of researchers and professors hired and the number of mechanisms in execution, totaling more than 5,000 contracts (see detailed information in “General Accountant”). These mechanisms include, among others, the various instruments managed by the FCT to stimulate the hiring of doctors, whether through fixed-term contracts or for entry into a career, such as Call to stimulate institutional scientific employment 2018, the results of which have already been announced, the Call to stimulate individual scientific employment, in the completion phase, R&D projects in all scientific domains 2017, in the contracting phase, the evaluation of R&D units, in progress, and the implementation of the transitional rule of Decree-Law 57/2016, through program contracts proposed to the institutions.

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

News originally published on July 12, 2018.
(In permanent update)