Portugal’s Science and Technology Foundation (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, FCT) will launch in October the WELCOME II Programme, allowing Post-doctoral researchers, citizens of any Member State / Associated Country, living and carrying out research work in Third Countries (such as USA, Japan or China) for the past 3 years, to join institutions in Portugal through 3-year employment contracts with their host institutions.

Eligible researchers are Post-docs, citizens of one of the following countries:

EU Member States: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom.

FP7 Associated Countries: Croatia, Republic of Macedonia, Iceland, Israel, Liechtenstein, Norway, Serbia, Switzerland, Turkey, Albania, Montenegro and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
 
Applications should be submitted jointly by the host institution and the individual researcher. All fields are elegible and research topics can be freely decided upon. Applications are evaluated by international peer review.

Call launch: October 1, 2010, Deadline: December 12, 2010.

Further Information:
http://alfa.fct.mctes.pt/welcome2
http://omega.fct.mctes.pt/contratacaodoutorados/welcomeII.pdf