FEUP|1 Research Grant Announcement |Health24Towers Porto

FEUP|1 Research Grant Announcement |Health24Towers
Porto
Porto, Porto District, Portugal

Organisation/Company FEUP Department Human Resources Division Research Field Engineering » Other Engineering » Mechanical engineering Researcher Profile First Stage Researcher (R1) Positions Master Positions Country Portugal Application Deadline 12 Aug 2025 - 23:59 (Europe/Lisbon) Type of Contract Temporary Job Status Full-time Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

Offer Description

1 Research Grant Announcement (M/F)

Scientific Area: Mechanical Engineering

Admission requirements: Candidates who cumulatively meet the following two requirements may apply for this grant:

Requirement 1:

- Be a student enrolled in a doctoral program in the area of Mechanical Engineering, a requirement to be duly proven at the time of signing the contract.

or

- Holder of an academic degree enrolled in a
- academic degree course integrated in the educational project of a higher education institution, developed in association or cooperation with one or more R&D units, a requirement to be duly proven at the time of signing the contract.

Note: In the case of masters who are enrolled in
- academic degree courses, the scholarship can only be awarded to those who do not exceed, with this scholarship contract, including possible renewals, an accumulated period of two years in that typology of the scholarship, followed or interpolated.

and

Requirement 2:

• Hold a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field.

If the degree has been awarded by a foreign higher education institution, it must comply with the provisions of the Decree-Law no. 66/2018, of august 16th, and any formalities established there must be fulfilled until the time of signing the contract.

Activity Outline:

The Health24towers project aims to research and develop an intelligent and predictive monitoring system for telecommunications tower infrastructure. The proposed solution will utilize information collected through specific sensors installed in the infrastructure, which will be processed by advanced Artificial Intelligence algorithms. The tasks listed for this grant will contribute to the project's activities. These include:

• Installation of sensors on telecommunications towers;
• Participation in the development of requirements;
• Development of a 3D vision system;
• Fusion of depth maps to obtain point clouds and visualize results;
• Creation of documentation and dissemination of results

Legislation and regulations: Law Nº. 40/2004, of 18th August, in its current wording (Statutes of Scientific Research Fellow) and Regulation of Research Grants of Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, in force ( https://www.fct. pt/financiamento/programas-de-financiamento/bolsas/ ) and Regulation of Research Grants of University of Porto, in force.

Work place: The work will be developed at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), under the scientific supervision of Professor Doutor António José Ramos da Silva.

Grant duration: Initial duration of 6 months, with the predicted starting date in August 2025 , on an exclusive basis eventually renewable but never exceeding the project duration.

If it is not possible to ensure the duration of 6 months estimated in the previous paragraph, this duration will be adjusted according to the end date of the project, and provided that the minimum duration of 3 consecutive months is guaranteed, in accordance with paragraph 3 of article 6 of the Research Grant Regulations of the Foundation for Science and Technology, I. P.

The eventual renewal of the scholarship will be carried out as determined in article 6 of the Research Grants Regulation of the Foundation for Science and Technology, I. P.

The curriculum of the candidates (60%) will be evaluated based on the merit of the candidate and the following factors will be weighted:

a) Academic training (Master in Mechanical Engineering - 10 points; Others Masters – 2 points)

b) Publications in the area of 3d vision 5 points, Publications in other areas – 2 points

c) Research Experience in the project area – 5 points; in related areas – 3 points; Other areas – 1 point

The curriculum of each candidate will be evaluated in a 1-20 points scale. Candidates with less than 13 points in the curricular evaluation will not be invited for the interview.

In the interview (40%) topics related with the work plan, experience and the candidate’s CV will be discussed with the invited candidates.

If none of the candidates achieves a minimum final score of 14 points, the scholarship will not be awarded.

Selection Jury:

Supplementary member:Professor Doutor Marco Paulo Lages Parente

Supplementary member: Professor Doutor Pedro Manuel Leal Ribeiro

Advertisement of final decision :The results of the evaluation will be released to the candidates

by email to the email address indicated in the application process.

Deadline for applications and form of presentation of the applications:

The call is open from 30/07/2025 a 12/08/2025(until 23h59m, GMT time).

Applications must be formalized by email to ars@fe. up. pt and to recursoshumanos@fe. up. pt , clearly statingthe referenceFEUP-Health24towers and including the following pdf documents: Motivation letter, Copy of certificates evidencing academic degree ( referring the classification of each separated or integrated degree), detailed Curriculum Vitae; Declaration on honor that the candidate fulfills the requirement contained in article 6 of the Regulation for Research Grants of the Foundation for Science and Technology, I. P. (model below, for student enrolled in a
- academic degree course integrated in the educational project of a higher education institution, developed in association or cooperation with one or more R&D units ) and other documents considered relevant by the applicant.

In order to assure that all documents can be read, the preferred saving format is the Portable Document Format (. pdf).

Declaration on honour

I, (identification of the scholarship holder), holder of the Citizen Card / Visa / Residence Permit no. valid until _____, declare under honour, to be in the conditions of no. 5 of article 6ºof the Research Grants from FCT, IP - Regulation No. 950/2019, of 16 December.