Government approved gradual replacement of post-doctoral scholarships for contracts – LUSA

At the end of the meeting of Council of Ministers, the Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education, Manuel Heitor, announced the approval of legislation that will allow “gradually replace the allocation of post-doctoral scholarships for research contracts.”

“This is a program for a parliamentary term. it will not be done in a day or in a month,” said the minister during a press conference, admitting that it is a “complex process”.

“I believe that within two months we will have this successive framework of legislative and regulatory framework ready and our ambition is within the legislature, fulfill the progressive replacement of scholarships for doctoral contracts,” he said.

The replacement bags for contracts will be “gradually over the coming years,” he said.

The general guidelines adopted today “will now be the subject of debate with the institutions and with trade union partners” and so the document will go to consultation with the Coordinating Council of Higher Polytechnic Institutes (CCISP) Council of Associated Laboratories and the National Association of Science and Technology researchers.

Then, you need to be complemented with a regulation and a program for the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). “

According to the minister, this new doctoral researcher regime “may have a wide range of wage conditions and facilitate access after the teaching research careers.”

the hiring system will be possible in public institutions, but also in private, said the minister.

at the same time also launched a specific program for researchers “who have post-doctoral scholarships for more than three years.”

the ministry believes that these scientific employment stimulus measures will be able to “attract researchers to Portugal” and counter the phenomenon recorded in the last five years of “forced abandonment of young researchers who had not the necessary conditions.”

The ad doctoral procurement regime was made at the National Student Day, the Council of Ministers decided to mark devoting today’s meeting the Education, Science and Higher Education.

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