International documental tender for the recruitment of 1 (one) Assistant Professor, in the area of Education, within the scope of the research and teaching of Education and Training Policies, with a special focus in History of Education

It is hereby made known that, for a period of 30 (thirty) working days following the publication of the present Notice in Diário da República (the Portuguese Official Gazette), the Instituto de Educação da Universidade de Lisboa (IE-ULisboa), is holding an international documental tender for the recruitment of 1 (one) Assistant Professor, in the area of Education, within the scope of the research and teaching of Educationand Training Policies, with a special focus in History of Education, to be hired through the celebration of an employment contract in public functions, in terms of the articles 37 to 51, 61 and 62-A of the Estatuto da Carreira Docente Universitária (University Teaching Career Statutes), issued by Decree-law No. 205/2009, of 31st of August, and altered by Law No. 8/2010, of 13th May (hereinafter referred to as ECDU), and further applicable legislation, namely the Regulamento Geral de Concursos para Recrutamento de Professores Catedráticos, Associados e Auxiliares da Universidade de Lisboa (General Regulations for the Recruitment of Full Professors, Associate Professors and Assistant Professors of the University of Lisbon), published by the Rector’s Order of February 16th 2015, published in Diário da República, 2nd series, No. 45, by Order No. 2307/2015, of 5th of March 2015 (hereinafter designated as ULisboa Regulation).

The recruited will celebrate an employment contract in public functions for an indefinite duration, in the category for which this Public Tender was opened, with a trial period of five years.

In compliance with paragraph h) of article 9 of the Constitution, the Public Administration, as the employing entity, actively promotes a policy of equality of opportunities between men and women in access to employment and professional development, scrupulously providing for the prevention of any type of discrimination, in compliance with the joint Order No. 373/2000, of March 31st of the Minister of State Reform and Public Administration, and the Minister for Equality. Likewise, no candidate shall be privileged, favoured, prejudiced, deprived of any right or exempted from any duty on the basis of ancestry, age, sexual orientation, marital status, family status, financial status, education, social circumstances, genetic inheritance, reduced work capacity, disability, chronic illness, nationality, ethnic or racial origin, place of origin, language, religion, political or ideological beliefs and union membership.

In accordance with articles 37 to 51 of the ECDU and other applicable legislation, and in compliance with the article 8 of the ULisboa Regulation, the following requirements must be followed:

I – Authorization Order

The opening of this Public Tender follows the Order of the University of Lisbon Rector’s, Professor Doutor Luís Manuel dos Anjos Ferreira, dated march 7th 2025, issued after the cumulative confirmation of the following requirements:

1. Existence of adequate budget provision;
2. The position for which this recruitment procedure is open is foreseen and unoccupied in the IE-ULisboa staff list. 

II — Workplace 

Instituto de Educação da Universidade de Lisboa, located in Alameda da Universidade, 1649-013 Lisboa, and the selected candidate must perform teaching and research activities, in the latter case, being integrated into the Research and Development Unit in Education and Training, associated with the IE-ULisboa.

III — Admission requirements

1 - Hold a Ph.D. degree, under the terms of article 41-A of the ECDU.

1.1 - Holders of the doctor's degree obtained abroad must have the same degree awarded by a Portuguese higher education institution in accordance with Decree-Law nº 66/2018 of August 16th, in its current version.

1.2 - The recognition of the doctor's degree, referred to in the previous number, must be obtained before the deadline to sign the contract, if the candidate in an eligible place has obtained a doctorate abroad.

2 – Be fluent in spoken and written Portuguese. 

2.1 - Candidates of foreign nationality, except candidates from Portuguese-speaking countries, must demonstrate expertise of spoken and written Portuguese at the common reference level of B1 or higher. This requirement has to be officially recognized by a certificate or diploma of communicative competence in the Portuguese language from the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages of the Council of Europe.

2.2 - The candidate must be a holder of the requirement referred to in 2.1 up to the date of signing the contract, when applicable.

3 - The non-delivery of any of the documents that must instruct the application, within the deadline and under the terms indicated in Chapters VIII and IX of this Notice, immediately determines its non-admission, which will be reviewed and decided by the Dean of the IE- ULisboa prior to the Jury’s decision on absolute merit.

4 – Candidates will also be excluded, even if approved and sorted in the unitary list of the final ranking of the present Public Tender in a place that allows them to fill the position, if, in accordance with Chapter VI of the ULisboa Regulation, upon being required to submit the documents proving that they meet the legally necessary conditions for the establishment of a legal relationship of indefinite duration with the IE-ULisboa, they unjustifiably fail to do so within the established deadline or, having submitted them, the documents prove to be inadequate, false or invalid.

IV — Requirements for admission on absolute merit

1 - Only candidates that cumulatively fulfill the following requirements will be admitted on absolute merit:a) Hold a Ph.D. degree in Education, or a similar area, relevant to the subject area for which the Public Tender was opened and have a global curriculum that the Jury considers, based on scientific merit, research ability and the value of pedagogical activities already developed, compatible with the development of research and teaching activities within the subject area of Education, and suitable for the teaching category of Assistant Professor, in compliance with article 10 of Chapter III of the ULisboa Regulation;b) Have published, in the last five years and until the deadline for submitting applications, 3 (three) or more articles in scientific journals with peer review and ISI/WoS or Scopus impact factor and relevant to the subject area of ​​the Public Tender, being considered as published articles those that have been accepted for publication by the editor. The respective URL address must be indicated for all the articles or, in case of articles accepted for publication, the respective proof must be provided;c) Submit a scientific and pedagogical project that is suitable to the subject area and to the teaching and research area for which this Public Tender was opened, without any severe inaccuracies.

2 - Candidates approved by the absolute majority of the voting members of the Jury, through justified roll call vote, with no abstentions allowed, will be considered as approved on absolute merit.

V — Evaluation and ranking parameters on relative merit, respective weighting and final valuation system

1 - Once the candidates who are approved on absolute merit are definitively identified, they will be evaluated and ranked according to their relative merit.

2 - The selection method will be the curricular evaluation, as established in No. 6 of article 50 of the ECDU, as well as No. 4 of article 5 and article 11 of the ULisboa Regulation, and based on ranking criteria, respective weighting and final valuation system indicated in this Notice.

3 – Each member of the Jury assesses the relative merit of the candidates, with the final aim of ranking them, based on the weighted sum of the score obtained in each evaluation criterion discriminated below, on a 0-100 scale (with 0 being the minimum value and 100 being the maximum value).

4 - These evaluation and ranking parameters take into account: scientific performance, pedagogical ability and other activities developed by the candidate relevant to the mission of the higher education institution, as well as the content of the scientific and pedagogical project presented by the candidate, compatible with the subject area for which this Public Tender is open, and suitable to the teaching category of Assistant Professor.

5 - The following weight distribution will be attributed to the scores in each ranking criterion:

A. Scientific Performance — 45%;

B. Pedagogical Ability — 20%;

C. Other activities relevant to the University's mission — 10%;

D. Scientific and Pedagogical Project — 25%.

6 - In each criterion, specific parameters will be evaluated, as below-discriminated, considering the last five years and giving particular relevance to the teaching and researching, within the scope of the research and teaching area of Education and Training Policies, with a special focus on History of Education.

A. Scientific Performance (45%)

This criterion is divided into the following parameters:

A.1. Scientific merit of 3 (three) publications selected by the candidate, namely in regards to their contribution to the development of research and teaching in the subject field of Education, within the scope of the research and teaching area of Education and Training Policies, with a special focus on History of Education.

A.2. Other scientific publications in the subject field of the present Public Tender: book chapters, articles in scientific journals and minutes of international conferences of which the candidate was the author or co-author, taking into account their impact (assessed by the journal’s impact factor), scientific level and contribution to the advancement of the state of knowledge;

A.3. Other scientific activities in the in the subject field of the present Public Tender, with a focus on research and teaching in Education and Training Policies and History of Education: participation of the candidate as coordinator or member of research teams in scientific projects subject to competitive call, considering their territorial scope, dimension and scientific level.

B. Pedagogical ability (20%)

This criterion is divided into the following parameters:

B.1. Lectured curricular units; 

B.2. Supervision of doctoral, master and undergraduate students;

B.3. Production of pedagogical material; 

B.4. Pedagogical innovation.

C. Other activities relevant to the University's mission (10%)

This criterion is divided into the following parameters:

C.1. Experience in vocational training actions; 

C.2. Participation in intervention projects; 

C.3. Provision of services and consulting services, relevant to the subject field of the present Public Tender;

C.4. Participation in academic juries;

C.5. Activity in national and international scientific events organizations;

C.6. Performance in university management positions; 

C.7. Participation in boards of the institutional bodies of universities.

D. Scientific and pedagogical project (25%)

The scientific and pedagogic project is evaluated considering the merit and the adequacy to the subject field for which the Public Tender was opened, namely given its potential contribution to the scientific and pedagogical development of this subject area, within the scope of objective(s) set in Chapter IX, No. 3, paragraph a).

7 - In the ranking process of the candidates in this Public Tender, each Jury member produces a list of candidates in descending order of merit. 

8 - The Jury votes initially for the first place, then for the second place, and so on, until the final ranking of all candidates admitted to the Public Tender and previously approved on absolute merit. In each voting, the Jury’s decisions are taken by absolute majority vote and the methodology for the ranking of the candidates is the one stated in No. 5 of article 20 of the ULisboa Regulation, in compliance with the provisions of article 17.

9 - Once the evaluation and ranking criteria have been applied, the Jury will draw up a unitary list of the final ranking of candidates.

VI — Preferential parameters 

When completing the list foreseen in paragraph 7) of the previous chapter, in the event of a tie, the preferential parameter is the one foreseen in parameter A.1., No. 6), Chapter V of this Notice.

VII — Public hearings

1 - The Jury may promote public hearings, on equal terms, to candidates approved on absolute merit which are intended, exclusively, to clarify issues related to the documents presented by the candidates, in compliance with paragraph b), No. 4 of article 50 of the ECDU. In this case, the hearings will take place between the 15th and the 25th working day after the end of the admission process on absolute merit.

2 - The Jury, whenever it deems necessary, may ask the candidate to submit additional documents supporting the candidate’s statements, which may be relevant to the analysis and classification of his/her application, in accordance with paragraph a), No. 4, article 50 of the ECDU.

VIII — Submission of applications

Applications must be delivered personally, up to 30 working days following the publication of the present Notice in Diário da República, from 10:00 to 12:30 and from 14:00 to 16:30, to the Human Resources Division of the IE-ULisboa, located at Alameda da Universidade, Cidade Universitária, 1649-013 Lisboa, or sent by registered mail with acknowledgment of receipt, within the same period, to the same address.

IX — Application instructions

1 -Candidates must submit their application with a written application form, available online at http://www.ie.ulisboa.pt/instituto/servicos%20-comuns/recursos%20-humanos/formularios (Formulário de candidatura - Professor Catedrático/Associado/Auxiliar), addressed to the Diretor of the Instituto de Educação da Universidade de Lisboa, stating the identification of this Notice, full name, number and date of identity card, citizen card, or identification number, taxpayer identification number, date and place of birth, profession, residence and contact address, including the e-mail address and telephone.

2 - In the application form, candidates must indicate their consent so that the communications and notifications in the context of this Public Tender can occur by electronic mail, to the e-mail address specified in the application.

3 - The application form, which is mandatory, must be duly filled, dated and undersigned and shall be accompanied by the documents mentioned below, in paragraphs a) to d), and must be delivered only in digital format (pen drive) and PDF format, otherwise the application won’t be considered:

1. Scientific-pedagogical project in electronic format (pdf), with a maximum of 5000 words, organized as stated in paragraph 4 of article 5 of the ULisboa Regulation, describing the research and teaching activities that the candidate proposes to develop during the experimental period and highlighting the its contribution to scientific and pedagogical development in the disciplinary area of ​​the competition with the aim of promoting and reinforcing the teaching and research activities of the Institute of Education and the Research and Development Unit in the area of Education, within the scope of the research and teaching area of Educationand Training Policies, with a special focus on History of Education;

2. Candidate’s curriculum vitae in electronic format (pdf), presented in such a way that separately responds to each of the elements and criterion referred to in Chapter V of this Notice: A. Scientific Performance; B. Pedagogical Ability: C. Other activities related to the University’s mission. The candidate must also include a reasoned synopsis, with a maximum length of one page, demonstrating that the candidate has an adequate scientific curriculum in the disciplinary field and the area of research and teaching for which this Public Tender is open. The candidate must indicate, for each publication included in the Curriculum, whether the publication is indexed in the ISI Web os Science service and/or the Scopus service;

3. Electronic version in PDF format of the 3 (three) publications mentioned to in the Curriculum that the candidate considers relevant for the members of the Jury, accompanied by a PDF document, with a maximum length of two pages, in which the candidate identifies their significant contribution to the advancement of knowledge for the disciplinary area, the area of ​​research and teaching and the impact on the areas for which this Public Tender is open;

4. PhD thesis or equivalent document(s) that led to the granting of this academic degree.

4 - Failure to comply with the deadline set for the submission of the application, as well as the lack of submission or the late submission of the documents required in the previous paragraphs will determine the exclusion of the application. 

5 - The candidate ranked in the 1st position of the unitary list of the final ranking shall deliver to the Human Resources Division, as stated in the declaration on honour on the form, the documents supporting that the legally required conditions for the establishment of a legal public employment relationship of indefinite duration with the Instituto de Educação da Universidade de Lisboa are met, within the non-extendable deadline of 10 working days, counting from the date of the notification for delivering the mentioned documents, as established in article 26 of the ULisboa Regulation.

X — Language

The documents supporting the application must be submitted in Portuguese or English.

XI — Composition of the Jury

In accordance with articles 45 and 46 of the ECDU, and article 14 of the ULisboa Regulation, the members of the Jury are the following:

Chairman: Rector of the University of Lisbon.

Other members: 

Doutor António Gomes Alves Ferreira, Professor Associado da Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação da Universidade de Coimbra;

Doutora Catarina Sofia Silva Martins, Professora Associada da Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto;

Doutor Pedro Aires Oliveira, Professor Associado da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa;

Doutor Jorge Manuel Nunes Ramos do Ó, Professor Catedrático do Instituto da Educação da Universidade de Lisboa;

Doutor Joaquim António de Sousa Pintassilgo, Professor Associado do Instituto da Educação da Universidade de Lisboa;

March 12nd 2025 — The Dean, Professor Doutor Luís Miguel Carvalho.