NOTICE REFERENCE 35/2021 - RESEARCH GRANT (Postdoctoral Fellowship)

NOTICE REFERENCE 35/2021 FOR THE AWARD OF RESEARCH GRANTS

Portuguese link at: http://uaonline.ua.pt/detail.asp?c=72327

A tender is hereby opened for the award of one Postdoctoral Fellowship(s) (PDF) SH4ALL – Smart Health for ALL, POCI-01-0247-FEDER-046115 of Department of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics, under the following conditions:

1. Scientific Area: Sciences of the Rehabilitation or related fields.

2. Financing Source: European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), - Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalização (COMPETE 2020).

3. Admission Requirements: PhD in Sciences of the Rehabilitation, or related fields. Preferred factors are demonstrable experience of conducting observational studies or intervention studies, participation in research and/or development projects authoring, or co-authoring of scientific publications, and written fluency in the Portuguese language.

If the qualification has been conferred by a foreign higher education institution it must be recognized by a Portuguese higher education institution, under the terms of the provisions of article 25 of Decree-Law no. 66/2018, of August 16th, which approves the legal regime of recognition of academic degrees and diplomas of Higher Education, attributed by foreign higher education institutions, and of paragraph e) of no. 2 of article 4 of Decree-Law no. 60/2018, of August 3rd, and any formalities established therein must be fulfilled by the date of the hiring act .

4. Eligibility: Applicants are eligible if they had obtained a doctorate less than three years prior and comply with no. 2 of article 2, of the Research Fellow Statute in the wording given by Decree-Law no. 123/2019, of August 28th, and also the provisions of article 8 of the Scientific Research Grant Regulations of the University of Aveiro. PDFs can only be granted provided the following requirements are met cumulatively:

a) The doctorate has been obtained within the three years prior to the date of submission of the application for the grant;

b) The postdoctoral research is carried out in a host entity different from the entity where the research work leading to the doctoral degree was carried out;

c) the research activities do not require postdoctoral experience;

d) the research activities have a time frame for development and implementation of three years or less;

e) The fellow does not exceed, with the conclusion of the grant contract in question, including possible renewals, an accumulated period of three years in that type of grant, consecutive or interpolated.

5. Work plan: Admitted candidates should be part of a multidisciplinary team developing digital solutions for the cognitive screening of active elderly people. They will need to collaborate on aspects related to requirements analysis and evaluation of the solutions developed in the project.

6. Applicable legislation and regulations: Research Fellow Statute, as amended by Decree-Law No. 123/2019, of August 28th; Scientific Research Grant Regulation of the University of Aveiro, Regulation No. 292/2020, published in Diário da República No. 61, Series II, of March 26th; Decree-Law No. 66/2018, of August 16th (Legal regime of recognition of academic degrees and diplomas of higher education awarded by foreign higher education institutions).

7. Workplace: The work will be carried out at the Department of Medical Sciences of the University of Aveiro, under the scientific supervision of Professor Doctor Nelson Pacheco Rocha.

8. Duration of the grant(s): The grant duration will be 12 months, expecting to start in January, 2022 and may be renewed for additional periods, up to the maximum limit of approved funding. Under no circumstances shall it exceed the limits defined in no. 5 of article 8, of Regulation no. 292/2020, of February 28th, published in Diário da República, no. 61, Series II, of March 26th (Scientific Research Grant Regulation of the University of Aveiro).

9. Amount of monthly maintenance allowance: The amount of the grant corresponds to €1,646.00, according to the table of values of monthly maintenance allowances, set out in Appendix III of the Scientific Research Grant Regulation of the University of Aveiro, The fellow may also be reimbursed for the amount corresponding to the Voluntary Social Security, in case of adherence to this plan

10. Selection methods: The selection methods to be used will be the following: curriculum vitae assessment

The Jury may request clarification of any item presented by email, using the email provided by the candidate, which should reply within 3 business days.

The final grade shall be obtained by: (A+B1+B2+B3+B4) / 5.

The jury may close the position without recommending the selection of any candidate.

11. Composition of the Selection Jury : Nelson Pacheco da Rocha (president); Mário Jorge Ferreira Rodrigues (full member); Milton Rodrigues dos Santos (full member); Margarida de Melo Cerqueira and Bruno Miguel Alves Fernandes do Gago (alternate members)

12. Deadline for applications and how to submit applications: The call is open from 6 to 20th December, 2021 and only applications submitted within the deadline will be admitted.

Applications must be formalized by sending a letter of application accompanied by the following documents: Curriculum Vitae, certificate of qualifications, declaration of honor and other supporting documents deemed relevant to assess the position requirements. They shall also indicate the e-mail address to which by such indication they accept to be notified for all purposes within this procedure.

Applications should be sent by e-mail to [email protected]

13. Form of publication/notification of results: The results of the evaluation shall be made public no later than 60 working days after the closing date for submission of applications and shall be notified to the applicants. The candidates are informed, in a prior hearing, under the terms established in the Code of Administrative Procedure, of the probable meaning of the final decision, and may, within 10 working days of this notification, express their opinion on this decision. The final results may be appealed to the Rector, to be submitted within 10 working days from the respective notification.

14. Tender duration: The final ranking list of candidates will be valid until 60 days for the purpose of constituting a reserve list for selection.

The models of the grant contract and of the final report to be prepared by the grant holder and the supervisor are available at Research fellows - sgrh - Universidade de Aveiro (ua.pt) .

University of Aveiro, 2 December 2021

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Professor Nelson Rocha