B-0034-23 - Open Notice for Phd Research - Porto, Portugal - Instituto de Telecomunicações

Descrição

The Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT) opens a call for a research grant, hereinafter referred to as a PhD Research Grant, in the field of Electrical and Computer Engineering, complying with the provisions of the FCT Regulation for Research Studentships and Fellowships (RBI) and the Research Fellowship Holder Statute (EBI).

• The scholarships will be financed by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) under the Collaboration Protocol for Financing the Multiannual Plan for Research Grants for Doctoral Students, signed between FCT and the Research & Development (R&D) Unit Instituto de Telecomunicações, UIDB/50008/2020.
• The call is open from March 15th to April 14th, 2023 at 11:59 pm (Lisbon time)

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Scientific Area:

Networks and Services


Group:

Networked Systems - Po


Admission Requirements:

• National citizens or citizens from other memberstates of the European Union;
• Thirdparty states citizens;
• Stateless individuals;
• Citizens holding a political refugee status.
• Be a master in the scientific area required for the research grant or in related areas, with a minimum grade of 14;
• Not having benefited from a prior PhD grant or a PhD in industry grant directly funded by FCT, regardless of its duration;
• Not have a PhD

Application's admissibility requirements

• Information of the identity card / citizen card / passport;
• Updated version of the Curriculum Vitae (CV);
• Work plan to be developed, with the following mandatory elements: title; abstract; key words; stateoftheart; research problems, questions and objectives; work plan; detailed schedule and execution indicators; framework and relevance to the research activities plan of the Instituto de Telecomunicações; references (maximum of seven pages);
• Motivation letter;

Regarding the admissibility requirements mentioned above, the following should be noted:
Work Objectives:


Applicable legislation:

The present call is governed by this Notice of the Call, the FCT Regulation of Research Fellowships, approved by the Regulation no.

950/2019, published in the Series II of the DR, of 16th December, by the Research Fellowship Holder Statute, approved by the Law no.

40/2004, of 18th of August, in its current version, and by other applicable national and European legislation.


Place of work:

The PhD research grant aims to finance the research activities, by the grant holder, to obtain a PhD degree from Universidade do Porto.

These research activities will take place at Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT), at Porto.

IT will be the host institution for the scholarship holders, without preventing that the work may be carried out in collaboration with more than one institution.

• The research activities of the selected grant holder leading to the PhD academic degree must be framed in the activities plan and strategy of the Instituto de Telecomunicações.

Duration:

As a rule, the duration of the grant is annual, renewable up to a maximum of four years (48 months), and the grant cannot be awarded for a period of less than 3 consecutive months.

Monthly salary:

The payment of the scholarship will begin after returning the signed contract to FCT, which should happen within the 15 business days after its delivery.

• The scholarship granted in this call will be financed by FCT using the State Budget fund and, whenever eligible, using the European Social Fund (ESF), under the Programa Demografia, Qualificações e Inclusão (PDQI), according to the respective requirements.
• SCHOLARSHIP ALLOWANCE
• Scholarship holders receive a monthly maintenance allowance in accordance with the table in Annex I of the RBI.
• The scholarship may include additional allowances, according to RBI's Article no. 18 and the values indicated in its Annex II.
• All scholarship holders have a personal accident insurance related to their research activities, which FCT will support.
• All scholarship holders who do not benefit from any social protection regime have the right to social security through the voluntary social insurance regime, under the terms of the Contributory Scheme of the Social Security System. FCT will ensure the charges resulting from contributions under the terms and with the limits provided in Article no. 10 of the EBI.

Selection criteria:

• C1 (60%)

Merit of the Applicant, decomposed into three sub-criteria:
Sub-criterion A- Masters' final mark (0-20 scale), with a relative weight of 60%.

Sub-criterion A- Personal curriculum in the area of the work plan, with a relative weight of 30%.

Sub-criterion A- Motivation letter, with a relative weight of 10%.

• C2 (10%)

Merit of the Work Plan

B- Scientific quality, with a relative weight of 80%;

B- Relevance of the work plan for the strategic plan of IT (Instituto de Telecomunicações), with a relative weight of 20%.

• C3 (30%)

Scientific merit of the supervising team.

• F = C1 x 60% + C2 x 10% + C3 x 30%
  Jury:
• Prof. Rui Pedro de Magalhaes Claro