Organisation/Company: CMU Portugal Program - FCT
Research Field: Engineering » Computer engineering
Researcher Profile: First Stage Researcher (R1)
Positions: PhD Positions
Country: Portugal
Application Deadline: 15 Dec 2024 - 23:59 (America/New_York)
Type of Contract: Not Applicable
Job Status: Not Applicable
Offer Starting Date: 19 Nov 2024
Reference Number: CMU Portugal Program
Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No
Offer Description
The CMU Portugal Program (CMU Portugal) and Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) opens a call to award up to ten (10) Ph.D. scholarships (Bolsas de Investigação para Doutoramento, BD). The Ph.D. will take place in Portugal and at Carnegie Mellon University, complying with the provisions of the FCT Regulation for Studentships and Fellowships (RBI) and the Research Fellowship Holder (EBI) under the scope of the CMU Portugal Dual Degree Ph.D. Programs in the following fields:
Computer Science (CS)
Engineering and Public Policy (EPP)
Human-Computer Interaction
Language Technologies (LTI)
Machine Learning (ML)
Robotics
Software Engineering (SE)
Societal Computing (SC)
The successful candidates for the CMU Portugal Dual Degree Ph.D. Programs spend up to two years at Carnegie Mellon University and up to three years at a University in Portugal. At the conclusion of their Ph.D. program, the candidates are awarded two Ph.D. degrees, one by Carnegie Mellon University and the other by the partner University in Portugal.
Under the "Research and Education Collaboration Agreement" signed between FCT and Carnegie Mellon University, the scholarship will be financed by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) in Portugal and financed by CMU while at CMU. The successful applicants may have to submit additional documentation to be awarded the FCT scholarship.
Admissions
The admissions will generally be open from November 19th to December 15th 2024.
Applications are submitted directly through the Ph.D. program admissions webpage of each Department at CMU. The FCT Scholarship will only be granted if the candidates are accepted by a Ph.D. Program at CMU and by a partner Portuguese University.
Each candidate may only submit one application, otherwise all applications will be withdrawn.
False statements or acts of plagiarism made by the candidates will result in the cancellation of the application and the possible adoption of sanctioning measures toward the candidate.
Scholarships Type and Duration
The scholarship type will be Bolsa de Investigação (País), for Doctoral Students pursuing a Doctoral Degree. The Ph.D. funding has a duration of one year, renewable up to a maximum of 5 years with satisfactory progress, of which at most two years are at CMU and up to three years at the partner University in Portugal.
Admissibility and Application Requirements
National citizens or citizens from another member states of the European Union;
Citizens of third States;
Stateless persons;
Citizens enjoying political refugee status.
To apply for the Ph.D. scholarships, it is necessary:
Hold a Licenciatura or Master´s degree, preferably in the CMU Portugal research areas identified in the current announcement;
Not having benefited from a Ph.D. scholarship or Ph.D. in companies scholarship directly funded by FCT;
Not to hold a doctoral degree.
Evaluation Criteria
The evaluation takes into account the candidate´s merit, alignment with the CMU Portugal Program, GRE (when required) and English Language Test scores. Applications considered admissible will be scored on a scale of 0-5 in each of the following evaluation criteria:
Subcriterion A1 – Academic curriculum (25%): score(s) of the main academic degree(s) and academic activities.
Subcriterion A2 – Professional curriculum (15%): professional experience and scientific activities.
Subcriterion A3 – Statement of Purpose (25%): describing the candidate's skills and goals.
Criterion B – Alignment with the CMU Portugal Program initiatives (25%);
Criterion C – Alignment with the CMU Portugal Program main areas (15%);
For tie-breaking purposes, candidates will be ranked according to the scores assigned to each of the evaluation criteria in the following order of precedence: criterion A, criterion B, criterion C.
Important Notes for Candidates
Candidates with foreign degrees who do not show proof of conversion from the final classification to the Portuguese classification scale will be evaluated with the minimum classification of 3,00 points in subcriterion A1.
In any case, scholarship contracts with candidates with diplomas issued by foreign institutions will only be concluded upon presentation of proof of recognition of academic degrees and conversion of the final classification.
Scholarship Awarding Requirements
The scholarship contracts are celebrated directly with FCT. After the candidate´s scholarship awarding, a set of documents and requirements must be fulfilled.
Funding
The grants awarded under this call for proposals will be financed by the FCT with funds from the State Budget and, when eligible, with funds from the European Social Fund.
Non-Discrimination and Equal Access Policy
FCT promotes a policy of non-discrimination and equal access, ensuring that no candidate is privileged or harmed based on various personal attributes.
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