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Call for Applications to Individual Grants 2011

(From 3rd May, to 27th June 2011)
Important Information in FCT web pages.

Scholar Year 2011/12, 7th Edition

              Adequated to the Third Cycle defined in the Bologne Declaration.

              An introduction to ProDEI - 7th Edition is available.


Applications:

Numerus Clausus is 25; more informations about applications are available (Portuguese version, English version), as well as the Application Form (Portuguese versionEnglish version).

The calendar is the following:

      First phase applications:
  • Application period: from 26th April to 6th June, 2011
  • Candidates Selection: from 14th to 21st June, 2011
  • Results of applications: 22nd June, 2011
  • Registration: 1st to 7th July, 2011
  • Registration of Substitute Candidates: 11th to 14th July, 2011
  • Announcement of vacant places for 2nd Phase: 18th July, 2011
      Second phase applications:
  • Application period: from 7th June to 26th August, 2011
  • Candidates Selection: from 2nd to 8th September, 2011
  • Results of applications: 9th September, 2011
  • Registration: from 13th to 16th September, 2011
  • Registration of Substitute Candidates: 21st to 27th September, 2011
Start of scholar year:
  • 12th September, 2011

Fees:

Fees are 3.000,00 ¤ per scholar year. 

Curricular Component

ProDEI courses are offered in such a way that permit to compose a set of relevant and updated competences, thought as relevant and updated. They qualify the students for:
  1. Research activities in specific areas of informatics, possibly in a multi or inter disciplinary context
  2. Independent and original research activity, in themes validated by international community in the field,
  3. Approaching systematization of research procedures and their practical application, as well as their evaluation.
Students considered with enough expertise in the offered courses may be granted ECTS equivalences, in a case by case basis, with a minimum of 30 ECTS to be completed in the program.

1st Semester
     
Mandatory Course in 1st Semester
Code Name ECTS
PRODEI001 Methodologies for Scientific Research
(Metodologias de Investigação Científica)
7,5
   
Optional Courses in 1st Semester  - Choose: 3 courses, 22.5 ECTS
Code Name ECTS
PRODEI002 Data Warehouses
(Armazéns de Dados)
7,5
PRODEI033 Network and Systems Architecture and Management
(Arquitectura e Gestão de Redes e Sistemas)
7,5
PRODEI003 Information Description, Storage and Retrieval
(Descrição, Armazenamento e Pesquisa de Informação)
7,5
PRODEI030 Free Subject
(Estudo Livre)
7,5
PRODEI029 Knowledge Extraction and Machine Learning
(Extracção de Conhecimento e Aprendizagem Computacional)
7,5
PRODEI005 Information Systems Integration
(Integração de Sistemas de Informação)
7,5
PRODEI006 Interaction and Visual Simulation Environments
(Interacção e Ambientes de Simulação Visual)
7,5
PRODEI008 Strategic Planning of Information Systems
(Planeamento Estratégico de Sistemas de Informação)
7,5
PRODEI034 Language Processing and Information Extraction
(Processamento de Linguagem e Extracção de Informação)
7,5
PRODEI009 Constraint Programming for Combinatory Optimization
(Programação com Restrições para Optimização Combinatória)
7,5
PRODEI010 Intelligent Robotics
(Robótica Inteligente)
7,5
PRODEI011 Computer Systems Security
(Segurança em Sistemas Informáticos)
7,5
PRODEI012 Multi-agent Systems
(Sistemas Multi-agente)
7,5
PRODEI013 Test and Quality of Software
(Teste e Qualidade de Software)
7,5
PRODEI014 Software Engineering Research Topics
(Tópicos de Investigação em Engenharia de Software)
7,5
   
 
2nd Semester
   
Mandatory Course in 2nd Semester
Code Name ECTS
PRODEI015 Research Planning
(Planeamento de Investigação)
15
   
Optional Courses in 2nd Semester  - Choose: 2 courses, 15 ECTS
Code Name ECTS
PRODEI027 Parallel Programming
(Programação Paralela)
7,5
PRODEI030 Free Subject
(Estudo Livre)
7,5
PRODEI017 Planning and Scheduling Methodologies
(Metodologias de Planeamento e Escalonamento)
7,5
PRODEI026 Advanced Methods for Modelling and Simulation
(Métodos Avançados de Modelação e Simulação)
7,5
PRODEI018 Programming Paradigms
(Paradigmas de Programação)
7,5
PRODEI020 Assisted Reconstruction of 3D Objects
(Reconstrução Assistida de Objectos 3D)
7,5
PRODEI025 Information Retrieval
(Recuperação de Informação)
7,5
PRODEI021 High Performance Resources in Internet Environment
(Recursos de Elevado Desempenho em Ambiente Internet)
7,5
PRODEI022 Critical Systems
(Sistemas Críticos)
7,5
PRODEI023 Electronic Business Technologies
(Tecnologias para Negócio Electrónico)
7,5

Scholar Important Dates:

1st Semester
Starting Classes: 19th September, 2011
Ending of Classes: 16th December, 2011
Christmas Vacancies: 19th December, 2011 to 1st January, 2012
Exams: 3nd January to 10th February, 2012

2nd Semester
Starting Classes: 13th February, 2012
Ending of Classes: 1st June, 2012
Carnival Vacancies: 20th to 21st February, 2012
Easter Vacancies: 2nd to 9th April, 2012
Starting of Exams: 4th June, 2012
Ending of Exams: 13th July, 2012



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