.(CLOSED) Reference Number: PTDC/COM-OUT/4851/2021 Research field: Sciences of Communication Specific Research field: Media Arts COFAC, Cooperativa de Animação e Formação Cultural crl, announces a call for applications for a PhD Research Scholarship in the scope of the project "Curiositas: Peeping Before Virtual Reality. A Media Archaeology of Immersion Through VR and the Iberian Cosmoramas (PTDC/COM-OUT/4851/2021)", supported through national funds in the budget of the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) - and developed in the research unit CICANT - Research Center for Applied Communication, Culture and New Technologies. 1 - Applicable legislation: Legal Regime of the Research Grant Holder Statute (Law no. 40/2004, of August 18, republished in annex to Decree-Law no. 202/2012, of August 27, and amended by Decree-Law no. 123/2019, of August 28, which proceeds with the fourth amendment to the Research Grant Holder Statute); and Regulation no. 950/2019, of December 16, which approves the FCT Research Grant Regulations - 2019. 2 - Scientific Area: Sciences of Communication 4 - Duration of the Scholarship: The scholarship will have a duration of 36 months, without the possibility of renewal. 5 - Amount of the grant and method of payment: The amount of the grant is 1104,64€, in accordance with the table of values for grants awarded directly by FCT, I.P. in the country. The payment of voluntary social insurance is also foreseen. 6 - Host institution: CICANT - The Centre for Research in Applied Communication, Culture, and New Technologies. 7 - Supervision and activities to be developed: The guidance will be provided by the Principal Investigator and the fellow will collaborate in research activities such as: historical press and image surveys in archives, database filling and cataloguing, press analysis, curation of research data in a Virtual Reality platform and dissemination events (conferences, workshops, open courses and scientific contents for storytelling and curation of exhibitions). 8 - Admission requirements: Applicants must meet the eligibility conditions set out in Articles 6 and 9 of the FCT I.P. Research Grant Regulations (2019). All individuals enrolled in a PhD program in Arts, Media Arts or Sciences of Communication are eligible to apply for this scholarship. Specific requirements are: Archive research experience; Database editing experience; Research interests in Media Archaeology and in Portuguese historical visual media; Experience in digital or artistic curating; Proficiency, both orally and in writing, in Portuguese and in English or French. 9 - Application deadline and form of presentation of applications: The competition is open from January 3 to February 7, 2022
