Scientific domain:  Inter-disciplinarity: Spatial Analysis in Interaction with Environment, Agricultural and Forest Sciences.

Requirements for admission: The candidates should have a Master in Agronomy, Forestry, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Geography  or other related disciplines.

Preferential factors for admission: Knowledge on the spatial and territorial analysis of environmental and socio-economic factors. Training and or experience with the use of tools for spatial analysis and data miming (GIS, Geo-statistics, Machine Learning, Arial Photo Interpretation and Remote Sensing) is required. Fluency in Portuguese is an advantage. 

Work Plan:  SUFISA aims to identify practices and policies that support the sustainability of primary producers in a context of complex policy requirements, market imperfections and globalization. Knowledge on market conditions and other driving forces exists, but in a fragmented way: relevant producer groups and regions have not yet been analyzed or framework conditions and driving forces have changed in the mean-time. Moreover, little information is available on cross-linkages between various drivers and future opportunities and threats will need to be integrated for an encompassing analysis. For further information on SUFISA, please visit: http://www.sufisa.eu/index.html

The Research scholar will be mainly focused of the Work Package (WP2), with the case study application in Portugal. The WP2 is devoted to exploring and developing innovative and participatory approaches for the sustainable delivery and financing of agricultural, forestry or fisheries commodities in each case study.

WP2 aims to go beyond the relatively fragmented insights consolidated in WP1 to yield a holistic view on Conditions, Strategies and Performances across commodity sectors and regions. For this, WP2 will use a mixed-method multiple case study approach in three steps.

To help improve the robustness and coherence of the samples of stakeholders and diverse actors to be included in the surveys and focus groups the researcher will prepare and implement a spatial methodology for the selection and discrimination of the most appropriate properties and geographic areas to target. Additionally, the researcher will be collecting the data required for WP2 application.  The researcher is expected to participate in one scientific publication issuing from the WP2 results.

Relevant legislation and regulation: This scholarship will be carried on the basis of a signed  contract between the University of Évora and the scholarship recipient, under the terms of the Research Scholarship Regulations of the University of Évora (Ordem de Serviço nº1/2011), the Scientific Research Grant Holder Statute  (Law nº40/2004 of the 18 of August and Decree-Law nº202/2012 of the 27 of August) and according to the Regulations and legislation for advanced training and qualifications for human resources of the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT).

Place of work: The work is to be developed at the ICAAM, Polo da Mitra of the University of Évora, under the scientific coordination of Teresa Pinto-Correia and Jose Muñoz-Rojas Morenés.

Length of the scholarship: The scholarship will last for 3 months, with a foreseen start at the January 2016.

Payment: According to the scholarship values applied by the Portuguese Research Foundation (http://alfa.fct.mctes.pt/apoios/bolsas/valores): the monthly payment is of 980 Euros, not subject to taxes, and the contribution to the national social-medical insurance is paid by the project. The payment is done by cheque or bank transfer.

Selection: The selection is done based on the documentation sent, mainly the analysis of the CV. An interview may be required. The interview will be used to select between candidates equally ranked. When the candidates are not available to come to Évora, the interview may be undertaken using skype.

Selection Comitee: Professor Maria Teresa Amado Pinto Correia; Professor Nuno Manuel Cabral de Almeida Ribeiro; Professor Maria Paula Duarte Simões; Professor Gottlieb Basch; Professor Fátima de Jesus Folgôa Baptista

Announcement of results:  The results will be published through a ranked listed and disposed at the entrance of Colégio de Regentes Agrícolas do Núcleo da Mitra da Universidade de Évora. The candidates receive the information by e-mail.

Period for the call and presentation of application: The call is open in between the 7st December and the 21th December 2015, and the results will be announced until the 28th December 2015.

The submissions may be done through a motivation letter, a CV, relevant certificates, sent to Prof.ª Doutora Teresa Pinto Correia - mtpc@uevora.pt