International Call: Science Manager for Innovation

The President of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Prof. Dr. Isabel Capeloa Gil, hereby announces the opening of an international call for applications for one vacancy of Science Manager to perform duties of science management, in the scientific field of Natural Sciences, Engineering or Knowledge Transfer. The research activities will be carried out at the Research and Innovation Office (RIO) of Universidade Católica Portuguesa, in Porto, within the framework of the project Deeptech Transfer, funded under the call COMPETE-2024-6 Ações Coletivas - Transferência do conhecimento científico e tecnológico.

This project, which will run until the 31st of august 2027, has as its main objective to promote the transfer of scientific knowledge in the fields of Food Biotechnology, Heath and Information Technologies. It will promote the generation of economic value of R&D results, through strengthening of the dissemination of new technologies to the industrial sector; the knowledge transfer processes and tools; and the conditions for value creation by the transformation of innovative technologies developed by students and researchers of the regional centers of UCP in Braga, Porto and Viseu. The project will contribute to the development and sustainability of business ideas based on products and services, and effective links between actors of the innovation ecosystem. The Science and Innovation Manager recruited for this position will:

  • Undertake project management duties, including preparation and submission of project deliverables and reports, as well as engaging with the project coordination and project participants.
  • Organise and contribute to the organization of project meetings, network creation events and Case Competition events.
  • Manage portfolios of IP generated by UCP and the implementation of processes for the assessment of potential for value creation and perform technology road mapping.
  • Support the development of tools that aim to promote and support value creation via licensing or selling intellectual property, co-development contracts with industry, or via spin-off creation.
  • Support the development and deployment of a call to promote knowledge transfer.

 

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 Contacts:

Human Resources Department

drh.recrutamento.porto@ucp.pt 

 

 
Research and Innovation Office Pre-Award Team Project Management Team Reporting Team International Call Research at Católica Innovation Ethics Committees Ciência-UCP Portal Research Support Digital Ethics Lab (LED)

 Contacts:

Human Resources Department

drh.recrutamento.porto@ucp.pt