Scientific Employment Observatory

Observatory data updated on April 22, 2019.

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

The ongoing monitoring of processes associated with the hiring of PhDs identifies the number of researchers and teachers hired and the number of mechanisms being implemented, 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 Call stimulate institutional scientific employment 2018, the results of which have already been announced, the Call stimulate individual scientific employment, which is currently being concluded, the R&D projects in all scientific fields 2017, which are currently being contracted, the evaluation of R&D units, which is currently underway, and the implementation of the transitional rule of Decree-Law 57/2016, through program contracts proposed to institutions.

The Scientific Employment Observatory is a pilot project for monitoring scientific employment, which monitors the opening of recruitment Calls for researchers and teachers with doctorates in public and private institutions, within the scope of the various lines of stimulus for scientific employment (i.e. individual support, institutional support, support for R&D units, support for R&D projects and transitional rules), as well as the regular recruitment Calls for teaching or research careers. It also includes the observation of 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)