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The Polytechnic of Leiria is now opening applications for 4 (four) scientific research fellowship (BII) within the project “MorphoPlay – Playful strategies for assessing morphological knowledge (2022.02585.PTDC)”, financed by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), in the following terms:
. SCIENTIFIC AREA: Health – Medical and Health Sciences; Health Care and Services; Language Sciences.
. RECIPIENTS: Undergraduate students of Speech Therapy, Psychology, Language Sciences, Linguistics, Educational Sciences or related areas with mandatory training in linguistics, who wish to develop research activities at ciTechCare- Center for Innovation in Technologies and Health Care.
. DURATION: 3 months, starting on 11/2023.
. WORK PLAN: MorphoPlay will be a morphological knowledge assessment test for children from the 2nd to the 4th grade of the 1st cycle, with the aim of being applied in the clinical practice of Speech Therapists and eventually in the classroom, by Teachers of the 1st cycle. The aim is to create a morphological knowledge assessment test, which is based on a set of scrupulously controlled items and which allow the assessment to be based on reference values for reaction times to a lexical decision task. Candidates will contribute to: collecting linguistic data in schools, with children in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th year of the 1st cycle of basic education with neurotypical development. The fulfillment of these objectives will lead to the final selection of stimuli that will appear in MorphoPlay.
. WORKPLACE AND SCIENTIFIC SUPERVISION: The work will be developed at ciTechCare, under the supervision of Professor Carina Alexandra Garcia Pinto.
. GRANT FINANTIAL COMPONENTS: Monthly maintenance stipend of € 541,12, according to the FCT Regulation for Studentships and Fellowships (www.fct.pt/apoios/bolsas/valores) plus, if applicable, the monthly Voluntary Social Insurance, according to the conditions defined in the Research Fellowship Holder statute, as well as the Personal Accident Insurance, during the research fellowship period.
. PAYMENT: The maintenance stipend will be monthly processed, through bank transfer, to the account identified by the research fellow.
. ACTIVITY SCHEME: Exclusivity, according to the applicable legislation.
. EVALUATION PANEL: The jury responsible for the applications evaluation will be constituted by PhD Professors: Carina Alexandra Garcia Pinto (president), Alina Villalva and Etelvina do Rosário Silva Lima (effective members); Rafael Minussi and Maria Pedro Sucena Guarino (substitute members).
. APPLICATION DEADLINE: September 1 to September 15, 2023.
. SELECTION METHOD AND EVALUATION CRITERIA: The evaluation will be done through a letter of motivation (50%) and an interview via zoom (50%). The interview will only be held for candidates who obtain a rating greater than 25% in the letter of motivation. The selection will focus on the candidate’s merit, where they will be considered and weighted according to the following:
. Evaluation of the letter of motivation/assessment of motivation and interest in the project area (M) (50%)
. Interview (Int) (50%)
Observation: If the candidate(s) with foreign qualifications(s) do not present, during the application phase, the recognition of the degree or foreign diploma and the classification conversion to the Portuguese scale, the jury defines the conversion only for the application purposes based on the rules of the legal regime applicable to the recognition of foreign degrees and diplomas or, when not possible, applies the minimal classification of 10 points.
Note that foreign academic degrees need to be registered by a Portuguese institution, in accordance with Decree-law no. 66/2018, dated August 16th, and Ordinance no. 33/2019, dated January 25th. The presentation of the certificate is mandatory for signing the contract. More information can be obtained at: https://www.dges.gov.pt/pt/pagina/reconhecimento?plid=374
. ELIGIBILITY OF CANDIDATES: Without prejudice to the applicable rules to each type of research fellowship, the following candidates are eligible:
a) National citizens or citizens of other member states of the European Union;
b) Third-party states citizens;
c) Stateless persons;
d) Beneficiaries of political refugee status.
. SUBMISSION OF APPLICATIONS: Applications must be submitted by email to carina.pinto@ipleiria.pt accompanied by the following documents:
– Application form available at https://www.ipleiria.pt/investigar/bolsas-idi/concursos-abertos/
– Document(s) proving the ownership of the academic degree(s) and/or required application diploma(s), preferably with the final average and curricular units’ classification. Candidates with foreign qualifications must prove their academic degree and foreign diploma in the terms of the Decree-law no. 66/2018, dated August 16th. These documents can be dismissed during the application phase, by submitting a declaration of honour available in the application form, which can only attest to facts that occurred prior to the application, with the verification of this condition occurring only in the contract signing phase;
– (optional during the application phase) Document proving the enrolment and registration in the study cycle or non-awarding degree course, as stated in the application announcement;
– Updated candidate Curriculum Vitae;
– Document(s) supporting other evaluation parameter(s) indicated in the announcement;
– Other certifications and/or other documents considered relevant by the candidate.
. RESULTS | DISCLOSURE AND COMPLAINTS: The jury will send to the candidates, by e-mail, the provisional results of the evaluation (presented in the form of the minutes resulting from the evaluation process) within 90 working days after the application deadline. After this disclosure, candidates have 10 working days to pronounce, if they wish, in the appropriate form available in the institutional webpage, under the terms of the administrative procedure code (CPA). The final decision will be taken within a maximum period of 60 working days after the conclusion of the previous hearing of interested parties, of which a complaint can be filed within 15 working days, after notification, to the highest executive body of the Polytechnic of Leiria. Within the scope of the research fellowship award procedure, if the final ordering list, duly approved, contains a number of approved candidates higher than the number of research fellowships to be filled, an internal recruitment reserve is always created, which can be used when there is need for occupation due to withdrawal of the scholarship holder, under the terms of the CPA, to be used during the eligibility of the project.
. APPLICABLE LEGISLATION AND REGULATION: Research Fellowship Holder statute, approved by Law no. 40/2004, dated August 18th, in its current wording; Regulation no. 950/2019 [FCT Regulation for Studentships and Fellowships, I.P.]
(https://www.fct.pt/apoios/bolsas/docs/RegulamentoBolsasFCT2019.pdf)
