Research Fellowship - CENTER OF BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING: CEB-BIPD-04-2023

Centro de Engenharia Biológica da Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Updated: 12 months ago

Job Type: FullTime

Deadline: 24 May 2023

10 May 2023
Job Information

Organisation/Company: Centro de Engenharia Biológica da Universidade do Minho
Department: Engenharia Biológica
Research Field: Biological sciences » Biological engineering
Engineering » Chemical engineering
Engineering » Biomaterial engineering
Engineering » Materials engineering
Researcher Profile: First Stage Researcher (R1)
Country: Portugal
Application Deadline: 24 May 2023 - 23:59 (Europe/Lisbon)
Type of Contract: Temporary
Job Status: Full-time
Hours Per Week: 35
Offer Starting Date: 1 Jul 2023
Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?: Not funded by an EU programme
Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?: No

Offer Description

ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THE AWARD OF A RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP

Research Fellowship (2 vacancies)

CEB-BIPD-04-2023

A call for applications is now open for the attribution of two research grants for MSc degree holders within the scope of the R&D project, “Blue Project, Bioeconomy, PeopLe, SUstainability”, Center of Biological Engineering, PT-INNOVATION-0105, financed by funds of the Blue Growth Programme in the framework of the Financial Mechanism of the European Economical Space (MFEEE 2014-2021), through theDireção Geral de Política do Mar,under the following conditions:

Scientific Area: Biological Engineering, Biology, Materials Engineering, Textile Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Polymer Engineering, or related scientific areas.

Recipient category: The BIPD is intended for doctorates in the area of Biological Engineering, Biology, Materials Engineering, Textile Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Polymer Engineering who cumulatively meet the following requirements:

Holders of a PhD degree obtained in the three years prior to the date of submission of the fellowship application**;
Have carried out the research work that led to the attribution of a PhD degree in an entity other than the host unit Centre of Biological Engineering of University of Minho ***;
Do not exceed, with the conclusion of the contract in question, including possible renewals, a cumulative period of three years in this type of fellowship, consecutive or interpolated.

Candidates who do not cumulatively meet the requirements described will be excluded.

Other requirements: If the qualification has been conferred by a foreign higher education institution, it will have to be recognized by a Portuguese higher education institution, in accordance with the provisions of article 25 of Decree-Law no. 66/2018, of 16 August , which approves the legal regime for the recognition of academic degrees and diplomas of Higher Education, awarded by foreign higher education institutions, and paragraph 2 e) of article 4 of Decree-Law no. 60/2018, of August 03, and any formalities established therein must be fulfilled by the date of the contracting act.

** Documents proving the ownership of academic degrees and diplomas, or their respective recognition when they have been awarded by foreign higher education institutions, when applicable for the type of scholarship in the call for applications, may be waived at the application stage, being replaced by declaration of honor of the candidate, with the verification of this condition occurring only in the phase of contracting the scholarship. This statement must attest facts that occurred on a date prior to the application. In situations of divergence between the information contained in the declaration and the documentation submitted for the purpose of contracting the grant, only the information contained in the latter will be considered. If it is verified that the documents proving the ownership of the academic degree and diploma, or the respective recognition under the terms of Decree-Law No. 66/2018, of August 16, do not correspond to the classifications awarded in the evaluation of the academic path and may, consequently, change the candidate's ranking, the fellowship contracting will not be done.

***Different R&D Units are included, even if headquartered in the same Organic Unit (UOEI) of UMinho (Article 7(4) and (5) of the current FCT I.P Research Grants Regulation).

Applicants eligibility: Applicants must comply with the eligibility conditions laid down in article 9 of the Research Grants Regulation of the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (2019).

Workplan and objectives to be achieved: The Blue Project, financed under the Blue Growth Programme, was born with the aim of taking advantage of the Marine Resources available on the North Atlantic Coast of Portugal to increase value creation, sustainable growth of the blue economy, scientific research and people's literacy in the Blue Economy. The project proposes the use of the species ''Sarrajão'' (Atlantic Bonito) to develop an entire strategy focused on sustainability, in its broadest sense, and on people, from the scientific community to industry, workforce, politics and civil society. Within the scope of this project, the University of Minho will carry out the following tasks: i) Identification of potential components to be used in the formulations of Atlantic Bonito products; ii) Formulation of new Atlantic Bonito products; iii) Characterization of the developed Atlantic Bonito products; iv) Techniques for Processing/Conserving the fish products developed; v) Quality control of products developed throughout their useful life considering different storage conditions; vi) Processing and stabilization techniques for the developed fish skin leather products; vii) Characterization of the skin developed from fish leather and composites; viii) Tests with the consumer.

Applicable legislation and regulations: Research Fellowship Holder Statutes, approved by Law no. 40/2004 of August 18, in its current version published by Decree-Law no. 123/2019 of august 28; Regulation of Scientific Research Fellowships of the University of Minho (RBIC), published in “Diário da República”, 2nd serie, no. 119, through dispatch no. 6524/2020 of 22-06-2020, ratified by ratification declaration no. 447/2021 of 22-06-2021 and Regulation of Research Studentships and Fellowships (RBI) of the Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P. - in force.

Host/Contracting institution and scientific supervision: The workplan will be carried out in the Centre of Biological Engineering of University of Minho, located in the University of Minho, Campus of Gualtar - Braga, under the scientific supervision of the Professor Doctor António Augusto Martins de Oliveira Soares Vicente.

Fellowship duration: The grant will take place for a period of 10 months, with a provisional starting date on the july 1, 2023 and end on April 30, 2024. The grants will not be renewed.

Amount of the research grant: The value stipend (Monthly Maintenance Allowance) is 1.741 € per month, in accordance with the stipends values published by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT I.P.) in the country (Annex I – Monthly Stipends Values for the maintenance allowances of the FCT Regulation for Research Studentships and Fellowships ) and Annex II of the Regulation of Scientific Research Fellowships of the University of Minho (RBIC), published in “Diário da República”, 2nd series, no. 119, through dispatch no. 6524/2020 of 22-06-2020, ratified by ratification declaration no. 447/2021 of 22-06-2021, according to the applicable regulation.

Payment is made on the 23st of each month, through bank transfer to the Bank Identification Number of the fellow identified in the contractualization process.

Other benefits: Reimbursement of Voluntary Social Security (Social Security contributions), corresponding to the 1st level of discounts and personal accident insurance.

Exclusivity regime: The grantee will perform the activities under exclusivity, as foreseen in article 5º of the Research Fellow Statutes and applicable regulations.

Selection panel: The jury will be composed of three effective members and two alternate members:

President: António Augusto Martins de Oliveira Soares Vicente (Full Professor at the Department of Biological Engineering of University of Minho)

Effective members: José António Couto Teixeira (Full Professor at the Department of Biological Engineering of University of Minho) and Ricardo Pereira (Assistant Researcher at the Centre of Biological Engineering of University of Minho)

Substitute members: Joana Teresa Rodrigues Martins (Junior Researcher at the Centre of Biological Engineering of University of Minho) and Jorge Miguel Magalhães Vieira (Junior Researcher at the Centre of Biological Engineering of University of Minho)

The first effective member will substitute the President of the selection panel in case of impediment, being nominate the first alternate member in the place of the first effective member.

Criteria and procedures for applications assessment and selection: The applications assessment will focus on the candidate's Merit, following evaluation criteria, valued on a scale of 1 to 5 values:

Applicant Merit - AM (100%):

A1 - Academic path (considering the classifications of academic degrees), with a weighting of 50%;

A2 - Personal curriculum (considering professional and scientific background), with a weighting of 40%

A3 - Motivation letter, with a weighting of 10%.

The final classification of the applicant’s merit with the achieved through the following formula:

AM= (A1 x 0,5) + (A2 x 0,4) + (A3 x0,1)

Candidates with a score of less than 3 points in the AM criterion will be excluded.

The academic degrees and diplomas documents, or their respective recognition when awarded by foreign higher education institutions are not mandatory in the application phase, being replaced by a declaration of honour of the candidate (annex I) with the contents of academic results (annex I). The documents of academic qualification or respective recognition will be required in the contracting phase and must attest facts that occurred on a date prior to the application. In situations of divergence between the information contained in the declaration (annex I) and the documentation submitted for contracting the grant, only the information contained in the latter will be consider. If the documents proving the ownership of the academic degree and diploma, or the respective recognition under the terms of Decree-Law No. 66/2018, of August 16, do not correspond to the classifications awarded in the evaluation of the academic path, which can change the candidate's ranking, the fellowship won’t be contracted.

Note:Applicants with degrees obtained abroad must present proof of recognition of qualifications in Portugal and conversion of the final classification obtained in them to the Portuguese classification scale or declaration under the terms indicated in the previous point. Candidates who do not comply with one of these provisions, the selection panel will assign “0” in the grade of the graduation and/or master course. Candidates will be evaluated on the remaining parameters.

Disclosure of results: The provisional results of applications, based in the selection panel minutes, will be send to the applicants by email under the terms of article 12 of the FCT RBI (FCT funding) or article 13 of the UMinho RBI (other funding subject to the UMinho regulation).

In case of unfavourable results, the candidates have a period of 10 working days to comment, if desired, in a prior hearing to interested parties, pursuant to articles 121 and 122 of the Code of Administrative Procedure (DL no. 4 / 2015 of January 7th).

Complaint and appeal procedures: The final results of the evaluation will be published through an ordered list by final grade obtained on the site of the Centre of Biological Engineering of UMinho (https://empregoceb.wordpress.com/ ), as well as by email to all applicants, enclosing for that purpose, the minutes of the jury deliberations.

The selected candidate must inform its willingness to accept the grant, in writing. In case of rejection, the fellowship will be awarded to the next candidate in the ordered list of applicants.

The final decision can be contested within 15 working days, by sending to the President of the jury the corresponding claim. Interested parties may also submit an optional hierarchical appeal, addressed to Mr. Pro-Rector for Research and Projects.

Selection reserve list: Candidates ranked in the following positions on the tender's final ordering list are integrated into a selection reserve list, which may be used until 12/31/2023.

Application deadline and submission: The call for applications is open for a period of at least 10 working days after the notice publication on the European Scientific Mobility Portal Euraxess.

Applications must be formalized, obligatorily, by sending an application letter with the following documents:

curriculum vitae;
qualifications certificate or declaration of the applicant (annex I);
motivation letter;
statement proving that meets the conditions for the grant typology (annex II), according to the application requirements;
other documents important to the evaluation process.

Applications must be sent by email to [email protected] , indicating the reference of the call (CEB-BIPD-04-2023) for applications in Subject. Applications submitted by other means will not be accepted.

Fellowship contractualization: The fellowship will be attributed by signing a fellowship contract between the University of Minho and the fellow, accordingly with the contract minute (annex IV of the Regulation of Research Fellowships of the University of Minho (RBIC), published in Diário da República, 2nd Série, no. 119, through dispatch no. 6524/2020 of 22-06-2020, ratified by ratification declaration no. 447/2021 of 22-06-2021, as indicated in 2.4 of the FCT document: “Rules for Granting and Management of Grants within the scope of R&D projects, including infrastructure projects, the multi-annual financing program for R&D units and other FCT financing instruments (Version 2021) ”.

The contract may only be concluded after all the documentation required is collected, which must take place within a maximum period of 6 months including evidences of doctoral degree our its recognition in Portugal, under Decree-law no. 66/2018 of august 16th.

Once all the documentation has been received, the contracting entity has a period of 60 working days to conclude the scholarship contract [in fellowship contracts under the UMinho RBIC, the deadline is 15 working days, pursuant to paragraph 2 of article 15]. Once received, the fellow must return the contract duly signed within 15 working days.

The activities under the fellowship contract can only began after proper authorization by the contracting entity.

Term and cancellation of fellowship contracts: Without prejudice to the other causes provided the fellowship regulations (FCT and UMinho) and in the Statute of the Research Fellow, the fellowship ends with the completion of the work plan, as well as with the expiration date for which it was granted or renewed.

At the end of the fellowship, the grantee is obliged to present a Final Report of the work carried out, in accordance with the objectives and evaluation criteria defined with the scientific advisor, within 30 days after the end of the scholarship.

The final report must be prepared in accordance with Annex I of the Scientific Research Fellowships Regulation of the University of Minho (RBIC), published in Diário da República, 2nd Série, no. 119, through dispatch no. 6524/2020 of 22-06-2020, ratified by ratification declaration no. 447/2021 of 22-06-2021.

ANNEX I

Declaration of Honor

Academic habilitations

(Full name), carrying ID document number / passport number (XXXX), applicant to the research fellowship vacancy under the R&D project I&D “Blue Project, Bioeconomy, PeopLe, SUstainability”, Centro de Engenharia Biológica, PT-INNOVATION-0105, financiado por fundos do Programa do Crescimento Azul no âmbito do Mecanismo Financeiro do Espaço Económico Europeu (MFEEE 2014-2021), published in the Euraxess portal, reference CEB-BIPD-04-2023, hereby declares to have a degree on (name of the course), concluded in the University of (XXXX), on the (conclusion date), with the final grade of (XXXX).

I have submitted my diploma for recognition at the University of XXXXX, according to the Decree-Law nº 66/2018 of August 16th([1] ), concluded in the XX/XX/XXXX, with the final grade of XXXXX out of YY.

I also declare that I commit to provide proof of my diploma recognition obtained under the Portuguese Law, until the date of the conclusion of the fellowship contract, in case of being selected for the vacancy in this competition.

As this is true, this declaration will be dated and signed by me.

(Place), (date).

__________________________

(name)

ANNEX II

Declaration of Honor

(Full name), carrying ID document number / passport number (______), applicant to the research fellowship vacancy under the R&D project I&D “Blue Project, Bioeconomy, PeopLe, SUstainability”, Centro de Engenharia Biológica, PT-INNOVATION-0105, financiado por fundos do Programa do Crescimento Azul no âmbito do Mecanismo Financeiro do Espaço Económico Europeu (MFEEE 2014-2021), published in the Euraxess portal, reference CEB-BIPD-04-2023, hereby declares that until now have never received any research grant.

hereby declares that have received the following research grants under the research fellowship statutes.

(fill in as appropriate):

Starting date	End date	Fellowship duration (month)	Type of fellowship	Fellowship Reference	Host/Contracting institution

As this is true, this declaration will be dated and signed by me.

(Place), (date).

__________________________

(name)

[1] DGES (Foreign Degrees and Diplomas): https://www.dges.gov.pt/en/pagina/degree-and-diploma-recognition?plid=1536 ; University of Minho: Recognition of foreign degrees and diplomas: https://www.uminho.pt/EN/education/Pages/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications.aspx

Requirements

Research Field: Engineering » Biomaterial engineering
Education Level: PhD or equivalent

Skills/Qualifications