Research Scholarship for a PhD student (1 vacancy) (Ref.: CEHUM-BI-01-2025) Lisboa

Research Scholarship for a PhD student (1 vacancy) (Ref.: CEHUM-BI-01-2025)
Lisboa
Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Organisation/Company CEHUM Research Field Other Researcher Profile First Stage Researcher (R1) Positions Ph
D Positions Country Portugal Application Deadline 23 Jul 2025 - 23:59 (Europe/Lisbon) Type of Contract Temporary Job Status Full-time Hours Per Week 35 Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme Reference Number CEHUM-BI-01-2025 Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

Offer Description

ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THE AWARD OF A RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP

Research Scholarship for a Ph
D Student – 1 vacancy

Reference: CEHUM-BI-01-2025

A call for applications is now open for the attribution of 1 ( one ) research grant for a Ph
D student within the scope of the R&D project Relia/CEHUM, ref. 2024. 07537. IACDC, funded under the PRR funding, as part of the investment 'RE-C05-i08 – Ciência Mais Digital' by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), under the following conditions:

Scientific Area: Humanities or related fields

Recipient category:Students enrolled in a Ph
D programme in the specified scientific area.

Requirement for granting the fellowship:

• The applicants may apply without prior registration in the course for which the fellowship is open. The requirement to enroll in a degree course or
  - academic degree course will be verified on the date of contracting the fellowship;
• Only fellowships whose selected applicants present a valid proof of enrollment in a degree course or
  - academic degree course will be contracted, according to the type of the fellowship, indicating, respectively, the academic year or its duration (star and term).

Profile:

The following are eligible to apply for this competition:

• Nationals or citizens of other member states of the European Union;
• Citizens of third countries;
• Stateless persons;
• Citizens with political refugee status

Candidate admissibility requirements:

• Hold a Master's degree in the scientific field of Humanities, preferably in Digital Humanities.
• Demonstrate experience in prompt engineering, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and the use of generative AI APIs (such as Open
  AI, Gemini, etc. ).
• Have conducted research work aligned with the objectives and activities outlined in the work plan of the scholarship.

Admissibility requirements:

• It is essential, under penalty of not being admitted to the competition, to attach the following documents to the application:
• The candidate's curriculum vitae;
• Certificates of the academic degrees obtained or, if applicable, the candidate's declaration of honor that he/she has completed the degrees required in the notice by the application deadline (not applicable to research initiation grants);
• For degrees obtained abroad, the record of recognition of the academic degrees and record of the conversion of the respective final classification to the Portuguese classification scale must be presented, or, alternatively, the candidate's declaration of honor;

Applicants eligibility:Applicants must comply with the eligibility conditions laid down in article 9 of the Research Grants Regulation of the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (2019).

Workplan and objectives to be achieved:

● Creation and optimization of prompts for generating literary questions, focusing on diverse pedagogical objectives;
● Development of automated or assisted formative feedback for students'
- ended answers, based on defined pedagogical criteria, with iterative adjustment of prompts and criteria based on the analyses conducted;
● Design of progress reports for reading roadmaps, supported by a gamification system integrated into the platform, with visualization of achievements, levels, and individual progress;
● Definition and analysis of performance and interaction metrics automatically collected by the platform (e. g. , reading time, number of attempts, response patterns), aiming to identify reader profiles and strategically adjust teaching practices;
● Planning, execution, and documentation of functional testing of the platform, including requirements verification, bug identification and tracking, and regression testing after updates.

Applicable legislation and regulations: Research Fellowship Holder Statutes, approved by Law nº 40/2004 of August 18, in its current version published by Decree-Law nº 123/2019 of august 28; Regulation of Scientific Research Fellowships of the University of Minho (RBIC), published in “Diário da República”, 2nd serie, nº 119, through dispatch nº 6524/2020 of 22-06-2020, ratified by ratification declaration nº 447/2021 of 22-06-2021 and Regulation of Research Studentships and Fellowships (RBI) of the Foundation for Science and Technology, I. P. - in force.

Host/Contracting institution and scientific supervision: The work plan will be carried out at the Center for Humanistic Studies (CEHUM) of the University of Minho, located on the Gualtar Campus in Braga, under the scientific supervision of Sílvia Lima Gonçalves Araújo, Associate Professor at the Department of Romance Studies of the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Minho, and Maria Micaela Dias Pereira Ramon Moreira, Assistant Professor at the Department of Portuguese and Lusophone Studies of the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Minho.

Fellowship duration: The grant will take place for a period of 5 months, with a provisional starting date on the September 1st, 2025.

Amount of the research grant: The value stipend (Monthly Maintenance Allowance) is 1259, 64/per month, in accordance with the stipends values published by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT I. P. ) in the country (Annex I – Monthly Stipends Values for the maintenance allowances of the FCT Regulation for Research Studentships and Fellowships ) and Annex II of the Regulation of Scientific Research Fellowships of the University of Minho (RBIC), published in “Diário da República”, 2nd serie, nº 119, through dispatch nº 6524/2020 of 22-06-2020, ratified by ratification declaration nº 447/2021 of 22-06-2021, according to the applicable regulation.

Payment is made on the 23st of each month, through bank transfer to the Bank Identification Number of the fellow identified in the contratualization process.

Other components of the research grant: (define the other components of the research grants, in accordance with the nº 5 of the article 18º of the FCT Regulation for Research Studentships and Fellowships, nº 950/2019 of 16-12-2019 or article 21º of the Regulation of Research Fellowships of the University of Minho (RBIC), accordingly with the regulations applicable).

Other benefits: Reimbursement of Voluntary Social Security (Social Security contributions), corresponding to the 1st level of discounts (for research grants with a total duration 6 months or higher) and personal accident insurance.

Exclusivity regime:The grantee will perform the activities under exclusivity, as foreseen in article 5º of the Research Fellow Statutes and applicable regulations.

President:
Sílvia Lima Gonçalves Araújo, Associate Professor in the Department of Romance Studies at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Minho.

Effective Members:
Maria Micaela Dias Pereira Ramon Moreira, Assistant Professor in the Department of Portuguese and Lusophone Studies at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Minho; Micaela Maria Assis Aguiar, Postdoctoral Fellow at the NOVA University Lisbon.

Substitute Members:
Ana Maria Silva Ribeiro, Assistant Professor in the Department of Portuguese and Lusophone Studies at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Minho; João Eduardo Quintela Alves Sousa Varajão, Associate Professor with Aggregation in the Department of Information Systems at the School of Engineering, University of Minho.

The first effective member will substitute the President of the selection panel in case of impediment, being nominate the first substitute member in the place of the first effective member.

Criteria and procedures for applications assessment and selection: The applications assessment will focus on the candidate's Merit, following evaluation criteria, valued on a scale of 1 to 5 values (or another scale):

• Academic path (considering the classifications of academic degrees), with a weighting of 50%;
• Personal curriculum (considering professional and scientific background), with a weighting of 40%
• Motivation letter, with a weighting of 10%.

The final classification of the applicant’s merit with the achieved through the following formula:

MC=(a*0, 5)+(b*0, 4)+(c*0, 1)

The academic degrees and diplomas documents, or their respective recognition when awarded by foreign higher education institutions are not mandatory in the application phase, being replaced by a declaration of honor of the candidate with the contents of academic results. The documents of academic qualification or respective recognition will be required in the contracting phase and must attest facts that occurred on a date prior to the application. In situations of divergence between the information contained in the declaration and the documentation submitted for contracting the grant, only the information contained in the latter will be consider. If the documents proving the ownership of the academic degree and diploma, or the respective recognition under the terms of Decree-Law No. 66/2018, of August 16, do not correspond to the classifications awarded in the evaluation of the academic path, which can change the candidate's ranking, the fellowship won’t be contracted.

Notes: Applicants with degrees obtained abroad must present proof of recognition of qualifications in Portugal and conversion of the final classification obtained in them to the Portuguese classification scale or declaration under the terms indicated in the previous point. Candidates who do not comply with one of these provisions, the selection panel will assign “0” in the grade of the graduation and/or master course. Candidates will be evaluated on the remaining parameters.

Disclosure of results: The evaluation results project, based in the selection panel minutes, will be send to the applicants by email, in accordance with article 12 of the FCT's RBI (FCT funding) | article 13 of UMinho's RBIC (other funding subject to UMinho regulations).

If case of unfavourable results, the candidates have a period of 10 working days to comment, if desired, in a prior hearing to interested parties, pursuant to articles 121 and 122 of the Code of Administrative Procedure (DL nº 4 / 2015 of January 7th).

(The hearing of the interested parties, if excluded, should be justified accordingly with article 124º of CPA)

Complaint and appeal procedures: The final results of the evaluation will be published through an ordered list ( alphabetically, by final grade obtained ), posted in a visible and public place of the host unit, as well as by email to all applicants, enclosing for that purpose, the minutes of the jury deliberations.

The selected candidate must inform its willingness to accept the grant, in writing. In case of rejection, the fellowship will be awarded to the next candidate in the ordered list of applicants.

The final decision can be contested within 15 working days, by sending to the President of the jury the corresponding claim. Interested parties may also submit an optional hierarchical appeal, addressed to the Pro-Rector with delegated competences in this area.

Constitution of a selection reserve list:The applicants ranked in the next positions on the ordered list will be included in a selection reserve list, which can be used until 30/09/2025.

Application deadline and submission: The call for applications is open from 10/07/2025 till 23/07/2025 or is open for a period of 10 working days from the date of publication on the Euraxess portal.

(Note: The deadline for submitting applications shall not be less than 10 working days ).

Applications must be formalized by sending an application letter with the following documents: curriculum vitae; qualifications certificate or declaration of the applicant; motivation letter; statement proving that meets the conditions for the grant typology, according to the application requirements; other documents important to the evaluation process).

Applications must be sent by email to (margarete@elach. uminho. pt ), indicating the reference of the call for applications in Subject (CEHUM-BI-01-2025). Applications submitted by other means will not be accepted.

The contract may only be concluded after all the documentation required is collected, which must take place within a maximum period of 6 months.

Once all the documentation has been received, the contracting entity has a period of 60 working days to conclude the scholarship contract. Once received, the fellow must return the contract duly signed within 15 working days.

The activities under the fellowship contract can only began after proper authorization by the contracting entity.

Term and cancellation of fellowship contracts:Without prejudice to the other causes provided the fellowship regulations (FCT and UMinho) and in the Statute of the Research Fellow, the fellowship ends with the completion of the work plan, as well as with the expiration date for which it was granted or renewed.

At the end of the fellowship, the grantee is obliged to present a Final Report of the work carried out, in accordance with the objectives and evaluation criteria defined with the scientific advisor, within 30 days after the end of the scholarship.

The final report must be prepared in accordance with Annex I of the Scientific Research Fellowships Regulation of the University of Minho (RBIC), published in Diário da República, 2nd Série, nº 119 , through dispatch nº 6524/2020 of 22-06-2020, ratified by ratification declaration nº 447/2021 of 22-06-2021.

Note: The information above required should be submitted in the Euraxess Portal, in the fields reserved for those purposes.