Positions: 12
Research Grant (BII)
BII|2025/781-Project WebCAP - refª 2024.07393.IACDC
Type of position: Research Grant (BII)
Duration: 3 months
Deadline to apply: 2025-10-29
DescriptionONE (1) research grant for students enrolled in a BSc or MSc program with reference number BII|2025/781, under the scope of the Project WebCAP - refª 2024.07393.IACDC, supported by the measure “RE-C05-i08.M04” – Support for the launch of a programme of R&D projects focused on the development and implementation of advanced systems in cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and data science in public administration, as well as a scientific capacity-building programme”, within the funding agreement signed between the Estrutura de Missão Recuperar Portugal (EMRP) and Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P. (FCT), is now available under the following conditions:
OBJECTIVES | FUNCTIONS
The student will work on Task 4 of the WebCAP project, whose goal is to develop three specialised web scrapers to gather data for case studies deemed significant by the Gabinete de Estratégia e Estudos (GEE) of the Portuguese Ministry for the Economy and Maritime Affairs within the Portuguese economy. The areas of interest are: (1) retail pricing in the agri-food industry; (2) housing prices; and (3) the employment landscape. These scrapers will enable the GEE and other stakeholders to pinpoint issues in their respective economic sectors and implement effective public policies to address them.
Contact email: bolsas@inesc-id.ptBII|2025/781-Project WebCAP - refª 2024.07393.IACDC
Type of position: Research Grant (BII)
Duration: 3 months
Deadline to apply: 2025-10-29
DescriptionONE (1) research grant for students enrolled in a BSc or MSc program with reference number BII|2025/781, under the scope of the Project WebCAP - refª 2024.07393.IACDC, supported by the measure “RE-C05-i08.M04” – Support for the launch of a programme of R&D projects focused on the development and implementation of advanced systems in cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and data science in public administration, as well as a scientific capacity-building programme”, within the funding agreement signed between the Estrutura de Missão Recuperar Portugal (EMRP) and Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P. (FCT), is now available under the following conditions:
OBJECTIVES | FUNCTIONS
The student will work on Task 4 of the WebCAP project, whose goal is to develop three specialised web scrapers to gather data for case studies deemed significant by the Gabinete de Estratégia e Estudos (GEE) of the Portuguese Ministry for the Economy and Maritime Affairs within the Portuguese economy. The areas of interest are: (1) retail pricing in the agri-food industry; (2) housing prices; and (3) the employment landscape. These scrapers will enable the GEE and other stakeholders to pinpoint issues in their respective economic sectors and implement effective public policies to address them.
Contact email: bolsas@inesc-id.ptBII|2025/780 - Crypto_Chaves project
Type of position: Research Grant (BII)
Duration: 6 months
Deadline to apply: 2025-10-29
DescriptionONE (1) research grant for students enrolled in a BSc or MSc program with reference number BII|2025/780 under the scope of the cryptographic development task funded by the Crypto_Chaves project (HPCAS group), is now available under the following conditions:
OBJECTIVES | FUNCTIONS
Development and definition of error correction system targeting Quantum cryptography systems.
Contact email:
Research Grant (BI)
BI|2025/777-Crypto_Chaves project (HPCAS group)
Type of position: Research Grant (BI)
Duration: 3 months
Deadline to apply: 2025-10-27
DescriptionONE (1) research grant for students with BSc degree with reference number BI|2025/777 under the scope of the cryptographic development task funded by the Crypto_Chaves project (HPCAS group), is now available under the following conditions:
OBJECTIVES | FUNCTIONS
Development and definition of network interception mechanisms in dedicated operating systems.
Contact email: bolsas@inesc-id.ptBI|2025/778 - BI|2025/779-Crypto_Chaves project
Type of position: Research Grant (BI)
Duration: 6 months
Deadline to apply: 2025-10-27
DescriptionTWO (2) research grants for students with MSc degree with reference number BI|2025/778 - BI|2025/779 under the scope of the cryptographic development task funded by the Crypto_Chaves project (HPCAS group), is now available under the following conditions:
OBJECTIVES | FUNCTIONS
Development and definition of network protection VPN and associated computation platform and system.
Contact email: bolsas@inesc-id.ptBII|2025/782-Project ACHILLES – GA101189689
Type of position: Research Grant (BI)
Duration: 3 months
Deadline to apply: 2025-10-24
DescriptionONE (1) research grant for students enrolled in a BSc or MSc program with reference number BII|2025/782 under the scope of the Project ACHILLES – GA101189689 funded by the European Union Program Horizon Europe, is now available under the following conditions:
OBJECTIVES | FUNCTIONS
The main goal is to execute an experimental plan that evaluates a Proof of Space blockchain developed at our team at INESC-ID, which relies on real contents that are maintained in the nodes of Machine Learning, Data Analytics and Cloud platforms.
More precisely, the work will use a previous implementation of our design and execute a thorough experimental plan which will compare our implementation to the Chia blockchain.
The obtained results are expected to be presented as comprehensive experimental chapter, to be included in at least one scientific paper.
Contact email: bolsas@inesc-id.ptBI|2025/773-Project AILA -Refª 2024.07657.IACDC
Type of position: Research Grant (BI)
Duration: 3 months
Deadline to apply: 2025-10-23
DescriptionONE (1) research grant for students with BSc degree with reference number Refª BI|2025/773, under the scope of the Project AILA – Artificial Intelligence Legal Assistant - Refª 2024.07657.IACDC, supported by the measure “RE-C05-i08.M04” – “Support for the launch of a programme of R&D projects focused on the development and implementation of advanced systems in cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and data science in public administration, as well as a scientific capacity-building programme”, within the funding agreement signed between the Estrutura de Missão Recuperar Portugal (EMRP) and Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P. (FCT), is now available under the following conditions:
OBJECTIVES | FUNCTIONS
This work will take place in the context of the project AILA, and aims to continue the development of a RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) system for the Portuguese Consumer Law, and it involves the following tasks:
-Finetunning a Language Model for retrieval of questions related to the Portuguese Consumer Law.
-Use of a Large Language Model to generate explanations of Portuguese Consumer Law that best apply to a given question.
-Usability tests with users.
Contact email: bolsas@inesc-id.ptBI|2025/774-Project AILA-Refª 2024.07657.IACDC
Type of position: Research Grant (BI)
Duration: 3 months
Deadline to apply: 2025-10-23
DescriptionONE (1) research grant for students with Master degree with reference number Refª BI|2025/774, under the scope of the Project AILA – Artificial Intelligence Legal Assistant - Refª 2024.07657.IACDC, supported by the measure “RE-C05-i08.M04” – “Support for the launch of a programme of R&D projects focused on the development and implementation of advanced systems in cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and data science in public administration, as well as a scientific capacity-building programme”, within the funding agreement signed between the Estrutura de Missão Recuperar Portugal (EMRP) and Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P. (FCT), is now available under the following conditions:
OBJECTIVES | FUNCTIONS
This work will take place in the context of the project AILA, and aims to continue the development of a RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) system for the Portuguese Consumer Law, and it involves the following tasks:
-Finetunning a Language Model for retrieval of questions related to the Portuguese Consumer Law.
-Use of a Large Language Model to generate explanations of Portuguese Consumer Law that best apply to a given question.
-Usability tests with users.
Contact email: bolsas@inesc-id.ptBI|2025/776 HLT – BM - I3AC007103 - UID/50021/2025
Type of position: Research Grant (BI)
Duration: 3 months
Deadline to apply: 2025-10-22
DescriptionONE (1) research grant for students with MSc degree with reference number BI|2025/776 under the scope of the Project HLT – BM - I3AC007103 - UID/50021/2025, funded by INESC ID, is now available under the following conditions:
OBJECTIVES | FUNCTIONS
The candidate will work on the development of novel approaches for clinical natural language processing specifically looking at:
(a) the use of language models for coding multilingual clinical texts according to the ICD taxonomy,
(b) explainability methods to be used in connection with models for clinical coding.
Contact email: bolsas@inesc-id.ptBI|2025/770-BI|2025/771-LAIfeBlood+ refª 2024.07475.IACDC
Type of position: Research Grant (BI)
Duration: 3 months
Deadline to apply: 2025-10-22
DescriptionTWO (2) research grants for students with BSc degree with reference number BI|2025/770 - BI|2025/771, under the scope of the Project LAIfeBlood+ – refª 2024.07475.IACDC, supported by the measure “RE-C05-i08.M04” – “Support for the launch of a programme of R&D projects focused on the development and implementation of advanced systems in cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and data science in public administration, as well as a scientific capacity-building programme”, within the funding agreement signed between the Estrutura de Missão Recuperar Portugal (EMRP) and Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P. (FCT), is now available under the following conditions:
OBJECTIVES | FUNCTIONS
Instituto Português do Sangue e da Transplantação (IPST), the national authority for blood donation and transplantation, ensures the balance between blood collection, processing, and hospital distribution to meet demand while minimizing waste. In this context, two major objectives are identified:
(i) to assess nation-wide changes to blood donation and demand activity since COVID-19 with a focus on descriptive models to capture shifts in blood supply dynamics for new insights, as well as predictive models for context-aware forecasting to guide tactical and strategic planning.
(ii) to develop a Node.js–based analytics tool for supporting the management of donations and requests, integrating it with IPST's database for real-time insights.
Contact email: bolsas@inesc-id.ptBI|2025/772– Proj. SMARTChip – Refª LISBOA2030-FEDER-00692100
Type of position: Research Grant (BI)
Duration: 4 months
Deadline to apply: 2025-10-21
DescriptionONE (1) research grant for students with BSc degree with reference number BI|2025/772 under the scope of the Project SMARTChip- Low-Power Configurable Neural Processing Unit For Embedded Intelligence – Refª LISBOA2030-FEDER-00692100 funded by operation nº 15811, Balcão dos Fundos, FEDER and FCT, is now available under the following conditions:
OBJECTIVES | FUNCTIONS
This position involves the design and development of a configurable neural processing unit (NPU) for deep learning models. The work includes the design of novel architectures to deal with low-power and high-performance execution of deep learning models in embedded solutions. The final architecture will be implemented in ASIC technology.
The work plan to be carried out includes:
- Literature review and analysis;
- Specification of supported models and their requirements;
- Design of the NPU architecture and its optimization;
- Implementation of the NPU as a prototype to be tested on FPGA;
- Description of the architecture in Verilog to be ported to the ASIC design flow;
- Development of a demonstration system
- Evaluation of the demonstrator;
- Writing of project report.
Contact email: bolsas@inesc-id.ptBI|2025/775-Project ISDAPPP -refª 2024.07395.IACDC
Type of position: Research Grant (BI)
Duration: 3 months
Deadline to apply: 2025-10-20
DescriptionONE (1) research grants for students with BSc degree with reference number BI|2025/775, under the scope of the Project ISDAPPP – Information Systems and Data Analysis for Public Policy Planning - refª 2024.07395.IACDC, supported by the measure “RE-C05-i08.M04” – “Support for the launch of a programme of R&D projects focused on the development and implementation of advanced systems in cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and data science in public administration, as well as a scientific capacity-building programme”, within the funding agreement signed between the Estrutura de Missão Recuperar Portugal (EMRP) and Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P. (FCT), is now available under the following conditions:
OBJECTIVES | FUNCTIONS
The grant supports the grantee’s scientific development through participation in research activities. The main goals are to develop a prototype dashboard for analyzing inequalities or demographic data—integrating data access via APIs and possibly a database—and to produce a final report documenting the work done.
Contact email: bolsas@inesc-id.pt