Research Fellowship; 1 Vacancy - Pt-Smart-Retail_Bi_2025_03_Calg

Descrição:

Organisation/Company: University of Minho

Department: Centro ALGORITMI

Research Field: Engineering » Electronic engineering, Engineering » Computer engineering

Researcher Profile: First Stage Researcher (R1)

Positions: Bachelor Positions

Country: Portugal

Application Deadline: 1 Apr 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: PT-SMART-RETAIL_BI_2025_03_CALG

Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

Offer DescriptionANNOUNCEMENT FOR THE AWARD OF A RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP Title: Research Fellowship; 1 vacancy

Reference: PT-SMART-RETAIL_BI_2025_03_CALG

A Call For Applications Is Now Open For The Attribution Of One Research Fellowship For Bachelor Degree Within The Scope Of The R&D Project Of Algoritmi Center, PT Smart Retail, Reference PPR/18_SMARTRETAIL, Financed By The European Union, By Recovery And Resilience Plan (PRR) Through The Agency For Competitiveness And Innovation – IAPMEI, I.P, Under The Following Conditions

Scientific Area: Industrial Electronic and Computer Engineering, or related fields

Degree courses: Enrolled in an integrated master's degree and/or master's degree.

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 non-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 non-academic degree course will be contracted, according to the type of the fellowship, indicating, respectively, the academic year or its duration (start 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 statusCandidate admissibility requirements: Candidates must have, at the date of application, a bachelor degree in Industrial Electronic and Computer Engineering or related fields.Candidates enrolled in a degree-granting course: Enrolled in the Master's Degree in Industrial Electronic Engineering and Computing, in the Automation Control and Robotics option;Is required for contractualization, proof of academic qualifications completed at the deadline for applications, including those resulting from academic degree recognition processes.Preferential Requirements:Knowledge of motion planning for robotic manipulators;Knowledge of robotics simulators;Knowledge in ROS.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 (not applicable to research initiation grants);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: The selected candidate will develop research and development activities within the scope of the Smart Retail project, with a view to developing robotic systems capable of carrying out replenishment activities in retail stores. The candidate's tasks will be:

Realization of the state of the art regarding the integration of local planners in the planning of movements for replenishment tasks;Study and development of the local planner;Beginning of the integration of the local planner with the currently existing global planner;First planner tests.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 developed at the ALGORITMI Center, School of Engineering of the University of Minho, located at the Azurém Campus, Guimarães, under the scientific supervision of Estela Guerreiro da Silva Bicho Erlhagen, Full Professor, of the Department of Industrial Electronics of the School of Engineering of the University of Minho, and scientific co-supervision of Sérgio Paulo Carvalho Monteiro, Assistant Professor of the Department of Industrial Electronics of the School of Engineering of the University of Minho, and Luís Filipe de Castro e Freitas Louro, Assistant Researcher of the MI Center of the School of Engineering of the University of Minho.

Fellowship duration: The grant will take place for a period of 6 months, with a provisional starting date on the May of 2025.

The fellowship grant may eventually be renewed up to 2 years in the case of students enrolled in a master's degree. Under no circumstances may it exceed the maximum period permitted by the project and/or provided for in current legislation and regulations.

Amount of the research grant: The value stipend (Monthly Maintenance Allowance) is 1040,98EUR/ 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 23rd of each month, through bank transfer to the Bank Identification Number of the fellow identified in the contratualization process.

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.

Application deadline and submission: The competition is open from 18/03/2025 to 01/04/2025.

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 ******, indicating the reference of the call for applications in Subject. 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 [including evidences of the academic degrees or diplomas and enrolment in degree courses or non-conferring courses, depending on the type of scholarship].

Once all the documentation has been received, the contracting entity has a period of 60 working days to conclude the scholarship contract (in the case of scholarship contracts under UMinho's RBIC, the deadline is 15 working days, under the terms of nº2 of Article 15º). Once received, the fellow must return the contract duly signed within 15 working days.

The activities under the fellowship contract can only begin 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.

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