The Centre for Psychological Research and Social Intervention of Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon opens a call for the award of 1 research studentship in the scope of the project “ADOPT-Adoptive families’ strengths, difficulties and service needs: A Portuguese follow-up study (REF. PTDC/SOC-ASO/4158/2020), funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P ./MCTES, through national funds (PIDDAC) within the scope of the SR&TD Projects in all scientific domains 2020.

1. Workplan

The ADOPT project aims to analyse postadoption pathways and monitor the urgency and extension of possible families’ difficulties, as well as to establish a system to monitor them along time that allow to provide, when necessary, an effective and timely support.

The studentship holder will integrate the ADOPT project team and develop R&D activities in regime of exclusive dedication, collaborating in the tasks described in the project proposal approved by FCT I.P., namely:

- Data compilation within the adoption families.

- Data insertion and analysis.

- Literature review.

- Promotion, divulgation and demonstration of the project and its results.

The studentship holder will also collaborate in other activities aligned with the project objectives.

2. Type and duration of studentships:

The research studentship is aimed at applicants enrolled in courses non conferring academic degree for developing Research & Development activities. The studentship is foreseen to start in February 2023 and the duration will be 12 months (up to the maximum limit of the funding approved or the maximum duration of this type of grant, whichever comes first), with the provisions of nos. 3 and 4 of article 6, of RBI.

3. Application deadline

The call is open from November 29th to December 14th, 2022. Only applications submitted within the deadline will be admitted.

4. Application submission

It is mandatory to submit the applications through the recruitment platform at https://recrutamento.iscte-iul.pt/jobs/260 by the deadline fixed in this notice with the following reference call “BI/ADOPT2022”.

Applications must be accompanied by these documents:

a. Curriculum vitae.

b. Motivation letter.

c. Copy of the academic degree certificate required to this call with final grade or declaration of honour (declaration template is available at https://recrutamento.iscte-iul.pt/jobs/260).

In case of academic degrees awarded by foreign higher education institutions, to guarantee the application of the principle of equal treatment to candidates holding foreign and national academic degrees, Degree and Diploma Recognition and conversion of the respective final grade to the Portuguese grading scale is mandatory.

The recognition of higher education foreign degrees or diplomas as well as conversion of the final grade to the Portuguese scale may be issued by Public Higher Education Institutions or by the Directorate-General for Higher Education (DGES, only in case of automatic recognition). For getting more information about this, we suggested to consult DGES portal through this link: http://www.dges.gov.pt.

When awarded by foreign higher education institutions, documents of proof of the academic degrees hold by the candidate or recognition document, can be substituted at the application stage by a declaration of honour (template provided by the institution opening the call). However, the studentship granting is still dependent on the presentation documents of proof of the academic degrees hold by the candidate and that are mandatory for studentship granting.

d. Proof of enrollment in a course that does not confer an academic degree, integrated in the educative project of a higher education institution, and developed in close collaboration with one or several R&D units. or declaration of honour in which he/she declares to meet the requirements for enrollment in a course not conferring academic degree (declaration template is available at https://recrutamento.iscte-iul.pt/jobs/260).

e. Declaration of honour stating that he/she does not exceed with this contract, including the possible renovations, an accumulated period of two years in this type of studentship, continuously or with interruptions

f. Proof of application submission duly signed, if required by the recruitment platform (https://recrutamento.iscte-iul.pt/jobs/260), once the documents has been submitted.

 All documents referred must be submitted in pdf format.

The candidates that do not submit all the documents referred in a-f will not be admitted to the call.

 If necessary, candidates can contact by e-mail to: marina.gonzalez@iscte-iul.pt

5. Requirements for Studentship Granting

After communication of conditional granting of the studentship, the contract can only be signed after receiving all the documents required. The following documents are of mandatory submission for the studentship contract:

a. Copy of personal identification and tax number documents (and social security documents, when applicable), as well as bank account data and Ciência ID.

b. Copy of the academic degree certificate required to this call with final grade/ Proof of recognition of foreign academic degrees and conversion of the respective final classifications into the Portuguese classification scale.

c. Proof of enrollment in a course that does not confer an academic degree, integrated in the educative project of a higher education institution and developed in close collaboration with one or several R&D units.

d. Supervisor(s) statement accepting the responsibility of supervising the work plan, as established in Article no. 5-A of the Statute for Research Fellowships.

e. Document issued by the host institution(s) where the work plan will be carried out, accepting the candidate and guaranteeing the necessary conditions to the successful development of the work plan, as well as the fulfillment of the duties established in Article no. 13 of the Research Fellowship Holder Statute.

f. Updated document proving compliance with the exclusive dedication regime; (template will be provided by the contracting entity).

6. Funding Source

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P./MCTES, through national funds (PIDDAC).

Full call text available here