Call for a Research Scholarship - Arrowhead_1.24

10 May 2024
Job Information

Organisation/Company

UNINOVA - Instituto de Desenvolvimento de Novas Tecnologias

Department

Serviços Centrais

Research Field

Engineering » Electrical engineering

Researcher Profile

First Stage Researcher (R1)

Country

Portugal

Application Deadline

24 May 2024 - 23:59 (Europe/Lisbon)

Type of Contract

Not Applicable

Job Status

Not Applicable

Hours Per Week

Not Applicable

Offer Starting Date

1 Jul 2024

Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?

HE

Reference Number

Arrowhead_1.24

Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?

No

Offer Description

Call is open for the award of 1 (one) Research Fellowship (BI) at UNINOVA - Institute for the Development of New Technologies within the scope of the project Arrowhead fPVN - Arrowhead flexible Production Value Network (ID: 101111977), funded by the European Commission’s Horizon Europe Programme, for the development of R&D activities to be carried out by doctoral students or by graduates and masters enrolled in courses not leading to an academic degree, under the following conditions:

Recipient admission requirements /Profile:

Be enrolled in a PhD or be a graduate and master enrolled in a non-academic degree course;

Not exceed, with the conclusion of this scholarship contract, an accumulated period of 2 (two) years, consecutive or interspersed, if enrolled in a non-academic degree course, or of 4 (four) years if enrolled in a Doctorate;

Experience in developing tools capable of automatically generating data translators from schemas with semantic annotations.

Ability to develop and apply ontologies. Experience with ontology editors, namely Protégé.

Experience with semantic reasoning tools, namely Pellet Reasoner.

Programming experience using the Java Language.

Experience in Web applications, Web services, and microservices development.

Experience in using the Spring Boot framework.

Knowledge and experience with XML and JSON data formats.

Fluent in English, written and spoken (Mandatory).

Good communication and interpersonal skills.

Candidates who have obtained the degree abroad must have the degree recognized in Portugal, pursuant to Decree-Law No. 66/2018 of August 16th .

Work plan: The candidate will develop research work performing the following tasks with the following objectives:

Contribute to the development of a tool that supports data interoperability through automatic translator generation. Analyze data models and identify new functionalities and implement them in the existing tool to support interoperability between data models. Contribute to the project deliverables and the publication of scientific articles.

 

Applicable legislation and regulations: Statute of the Scientific Research Grantee, approved by Law No. 40/2004 of August 18, amended and republished by Decree-Law No. 202/2012, of August 27 and amended by Decree-Law No. 233/2012 of 29 October, Law No. 12/2013 of January 29 and Decree-Law No. 123/2019 of August 28.

Is subsidiarily applicable the Regulation of UNINOVA Research Grants, approved by deliberation of the Board of Directors of the FCT-Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, in the meeting of March 2 of 2022.

Workplace: Thework will be carried out at UNINOVA's facilities, in other facilities located at the FCT/NOVA Campus and/or in other facilities that may be necessary for its execution, under the scientific guidance of Prof. Filipe Moutinho.UNINOVA will be the contracting entity.

Duration of the grant: The grant shall last for 6 months, possibly renewable within the duration of the project, provided that it does not exceed the period referred to in point (b) of the admission requirements and is scheduled to start in July 2024.

Application deadline and form of submission of applications: The call for applications is open for the period from May 13, 2024 to May 24, 2024 (10 working days).

Applications must be formalised by submitting the following documentation:

...       Curriculum Vitae;

...       Motivation Letter;

...       Certificate of Qualifications or declaration of commitment of honor on the ownership of the respective academic degree according to draft available on the UNINOVA website (https://www.uninova.pt/job-opportunity/internal-documents ).

Upon contracting, the Certificate of Qualifications must be delivered;

...       Informed consent statement duly dated and signed, according to the draft available on the UNINOVA website (https://www.uninova.pt/job-opportunity/internal-documents );

...       Copy of ID;

...       Dated list of R&D+I projects where the candidate has participated including detailed information of the involvement of the candidate in each project and the specific contributions of the candidate in the scope of each project (e.g. in the writing of deliverables, in technologies’ specification, in systems’ development, in technological validation & experimentation, etc.);

...       List of technological solutions to which the candidate has contributed including information regarding the candidate's specific contributions in the context(s) of the same(s) (e.g., main/core/etc. developer, development of which components, pilot deployments, etc.);

...       Other documents attesting to what was reported on the CV.

In the event of contractualization, the selected candidate must present the Proof of registration in a doctorate or in a course not conferring an academic degree.

Applications must be submitted to UNINOVA or submitted by email to [email protected] and to [email protected] with the Arrowhead_1.24.

 

Requirements

Research Field

Engineering » Electrical engineering

Education Level

Master Degree or equivalent

Skills/Qualifications

Recipient admission requirements /Profile:

Be enrolled in a PhD or be a graduate and master enrolled in a non-academic degree course;

Not exceed, with the conclusion of this scholarship contract, an accumulated period of 2 (two) years, consecutive or interspersed, if enrolled in a non-academic degree course, or of 4 (four) years if enrolled in a Doctorate;

Experience in developing tools capable of automatically generating data translators from schemas with semantic annotations.

Ability to develop and apply ontologies. Experience with ontology editors, namely Protégé.

Experience with semantic reasoning tools, namely Pellet Reasoner.

Programming experience using the Java Language.

Experience in Web applications, Web services, and microservices development.

Experience in using the Spring Boot framework.

Knowledge and experience with XML and JSON data formats.

Fluent in English, written and spoken (Mandatory).

Good communication and interpersonal skills.

Candidates who have obtained the degree abroad must have the degree recognized in Portugal, pursuant to Decree-Law No. 66/2018 of August 16th .

 

Specific Requirements

Area: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Languages

ENGLISH

Level

Excellent

Additional Information
Benefits

Monthly maintenance allowance amount: The amount of the scholarship corresponds to a minimum value of € 1259,64. according to the table of values of the scholarships awarded directly by FCT, I.P. in the country (  https://www.fct.pt/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Tabela-de-Valores-SMM_atualizacao-2024.pdf ).

The grantee also benefits from personal accident insurance during the period of granting the scholarship and may be reimbursed for voluntary social insurance equivalent to the 1st tier.

The scholarship will be paid monthly on the last business day of each month by bank transfer.

Eligibility criteria

Selection methods: The selection methods to use will be as follows:

The admitted applications will be evaluated considering the quality, timeliness, and relevance of the scientific path and curriculum of each candidate and their adequacy to the proposed work plan. The classification is expressed on a numerical scale from 0 to 20 points.

Candidates are evaluated in two phases:

•          First phase: Curriculum Analysis – The curriculum of the candidate will be qualitatively analyzed concerning its content and relevance for the tasks to be performed, namely: experience and knowledge of the techniques indicated in the candidate's profile (50%); capacity to develop technological solutions in the technical areas mentioned in this call notice (50%).

•          Second stage: Interview – The jury will select for the interview the 3 candidates who obtained, in the first phase, the highest ranking, with a minimum of 15 points, or the number of candidates, up to 3, who obtained in the first phase a minimum score of 15 points. The interview can be conducted remotely.

Members of the Jury:

Pedro Miguel Negrão Maló

João Almeida das Rosas

Filipe de Carvalho Moutinho

The Interview can be considered not required in case there is only one eligible candidate having scored a minimum of 15 points in the first phase (Curriculum Analysis).

The final classification will have a 60% weight from the first phase (Curriculum Analysis) and a 40% weight from the second phase (Interview). In case no Interview is considered required, the final classification is the classification of the first phase (Curriculum Analysis).

The jury shall deliberate through a roll-call vote based on the selection criteria. In the event of a tie, the decision will be the responsibility of the chairman of the jury.

Selection process

Form of advertising/notification of results: Both admitted and excluded candidates list with the final classification shall be published on the UNINOVA website (https://www.uninova.pt/ )  and all candidates will be notified by email.

Preliminary Hearing and Deadline for Decision: After communicating the provisional list of the results of the evaluation, candidates have a period of 10 working days to express their opinion at a prior hearing of interested parties, pursuant to Articles 121 and following of the Code of Administrative Procedure.

The final decision will be rendered after the analysis of the statements presented during the preliminary hearing of interested parties. A complaint may be filed against the final decision within 15 working days, or, alternatively, an appeal may be filed within 30 working days, both counting from the respective notification.

Additional comments

Models of scholarship contract, final report of the grantee and final report of the advisor: These minutes are available at the UNINOVA website (https://www.uninova.pt/job-opportunity/internal-documents ).

Non-discrimination policy

UNINOVA promotes actively a non-discrimination and equal access policy, wherefore no candidate can be privileged, benefited, impaired or deprived of any rights whatsoever, or be exempt of any duties based on their ancestry, age, sex, sexual preference, marital status, family and economic conditions, instruction, origin or social conditions, genetic heritage, reduced work capacity, disability, chronic illness, nationality, ethnic origin or race, origin territory, language, religion, political or ideological convictions and union membership.

Pursuant to Decree-Law 29/2001 of February 3rd , disabled candidates shall be preferred in a situation of equal classification, and said preference supersedes any legal preferences. Candidates must declare, on their honour, their respective disability degree, type of disability and communication / expression means to be used during selection period on their application form, under the regulations above.

Work Location(s)

Number of offers available

1

Company/Institute

UNINOVA - Instituto de Desenvolvimento de Novas Tecnologias

Country

Portugal

State/Province

Caparica

City

Quinta da Torre

Postal Code

2829-516

Street

Campus da Caparica

Geofield

Where to apply

E-mail

[email protected]

Contact

State/Province

Caparica

City

Quinta da Torre

Website

http://www.uninova.pt

Street

Campus da Caparica

Postal Code

2829-516

STATUS: EXPIRED