Students who meet the conditions to be eligible for FCT scholarships for initiation to research or research (articles 5 and 6 of the FCT scholarship Regulation), as well as students with scholarships for school social action.
Os estudantes e jovens que reúnam as condições para ser bolseiros de iniciação à investigação ou de investigação (artº 5º e 6º do Regulamento de bolsas da FCT) assim como os estudantes bolseiros da ação social escolar.
ITI Staff will be helping the students with their applications and form submission, please email admin@iti.larsys.pt for support.
Proposals must be submitted to FCT by filling in this specific form, in Portuguese or English, by students who wish to apply for scholarships for initiation to research or research (FCT), or for the extension of school social action (DGES), including an indication of the person responsible for the internship, the host institution, and a short work program.
To submit applications, the form must be filled out and sent in pdf format to the email veraocomciencia@fct.pt. Additional information can also be obtained through the same email.
Application deadline: by 5 p.m. on June 26, 2020.
O Staff do ITI dará apoio às candidaturas dos alunos e submissão dos formulários, por favor envie email para o admin@iti.larsys.pt para assistência.
As propostas devem ser enviadas para a FCT através do preenchimento, em língua portuguesa ou inglesa, do formulário pelos estudantes interessados, para solicitação de bolsas de iniciação à investigação ou de investigação (FCT), ou de extensão da ação social escolar (DGES), incluindo indicação do responsável pela formação em investigação, da instituição de acolhimento e programa de trabalho resumido.
Para efetuar a candidatura, deverá ser preenchido o formulário e ser enviado em formato pdf para o email veraocomciencia@fct.pt. Informações adicionais também poderão ser obtidas através do mesmo email.
Prazo de candidatura: até às 17h00 do dia 26 de junho de 2020.
The decision on the granting of support rests with the President of the FCT Directive Council, after hearing the General Director of Higher Education – DGES.
The decision on the extension, in the form of aid, of school social action scholarships active in 2019/20, to students with a confirmation letter of acceptance in “Summer Schools” in Polytechnics and Universities, rests with DGES.
In this process, the procedure for hearing interested parties does not apply, considering paragraphs a) and c) of Article no. 124 of the CPA.
A decisão sobre a concessão de apoios cabe à Presidente do Conselho Diretivo da FCT, após ouvido o Diretor Geral do Ensino Superior – DGES.
A decisão sobre a extensão, sob a forma de auxílio, das bolsas de ação social escolar ativas em 2019/20, aos estudantes com carta de confirmação de aceitação em “Escolas de Verão” em Politécnicos e Universidades, cabe à DGES.
Neste processo não se aplica o procedimento de audiência de interessados, considerando as alíneas a) e c) do Art.º 124º do CPA.
Os alunos interessados podem candidatar-se a uma das seguintes propostas para trabalhar com um Docente e uma equipa de investigação do ITI ou MARE. Mais informações dos projetos abaixo.
The ETC project (M1420-01-0247-FEDER-000019) aims at studying novel assistive technologies for the elderly and their caregivers, studying and researching the usage of remote monitoring devices and its impact on mental health and wellbeing of both the patients and the informal caregivers. The overall goal is to design and develop novel assistive experiences mediated by technology and using an “emotional design” approach.
In this internship, the student will assist with user research related to behavior change design for healthcare. You are expected to develop tools to gather information from the web (e.g., self-reports and caregiver-proxy reports posted online) to help understand stakeholder needs and pain points.
Workplan
Candidate requirements
Students will work 20-25 hours/week in the Madeira Pole of ITI/LARSyS located at the Madeira Tecnopolo, in Funchal.
Cetaceans play an important role in maintaining the structure and functioning of marine ecosystems. It is therefore of great importance to monitor and study cetacean populations to understand their ecology and implement adequate conservation plans when necessary. A total of 29 cetacean species have been recorded in Madeira, where continuous monitoring and research studies are being performed. Different monitoring tools such as photo-identification, biopsies, and satellite tags have been implemented throughout the different studies which have given valuable insight into the lives of these top predators. The goal of our research group is to further understand the ecology, presence, and behavior of cetaceans in this remote insular environment, especially on a period where marine mammals are heavily impacted by anthropogenic activities.
Workplan
Candidate requirements
Students will work 20-25 hours/week in the Madeira Pole of MARE (Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre) / ARDITI & Oceanic Observatory of Madeira (https://oom.arditi.pt/) located at the Madeira Tecnopolo, in Funchal.
Over the last decade there has been an increasing demand of solutions and approaches that integrate multiple technologies and methods that are able to provide multiple “layers” of information of relevance to ecosystems, habitats and residing communities. Across the world’s oceans, efforts have been made to improve and integrate remote sensing from satellites with acoustic surveys with findings from sampling and in situ observations and with modeling.
In this internship we offer participants the opportunity to participate in an holistic approach to coastal surveys and get first hand experience in in multiple marine survey methods and sampling strategies to leverage their integration in ecological studies and marine science.
Workplan
Specifically, students will learn and/or participate in:
Intertidal and/or subtidal surveys to characterize communities using in situ categorization and imagery;
Participants will get hands-on contact with all these survey methods and are expected to use legacy and available data to produce unique maps or GIS
layers. Candidates are expected to:
Participants will work 20-30 h per week at MARE-Madeira facilities in Funchal and Caniçal.
At this stage, the database will be created and tested and some heuristic analysis tools based on artificial intelligence will be tested to analyze the potential success of young athletes throughout their training.
This work is part of the ongoing research line that includes the creation of a Training Laboratory with the support of Artificial Intelligence tools, complementing this project, the Maritime Training Laboratory.
Workplan
The purpose of this platform is to analyze the individual information of the football player from several modules:
Students will work 20-25 hours/week in the Madeira Pole of ITI/LARSyS located at the Madeira Tecnopolo, in Funchal.
VERSoccer – Virtual reality Environments as a therapeutic technique in Rehabilitation of Soccer players
Supervisor: Frederica Gonçalves
Soccer players throughout their careers are affected by injuries of various types. The rapid recovery of these injuries is one of the main objectives of the various agents involved in a player’s career. All of the rehabilitation plans evolve using the affected body parts and perform exercises, some of these repeated multiple times. The traditional rehabilitation process is characterized by the use of devices that are almost always the same, and always in the same environment for long periods that may cause unmotivated. Therefore, researchers have pursued new approaches to improve rehabilitation. The introduction of Virtual Reality (VR) allows presenting a virtual scenario that is appealing to the patient performing rehabilitation. However, there is currently limited scientific evidence of rehabilitation for injured athletes in professional sport using VR systems and the scenarios applied to it. The VERSoccer will use technologies such as the VIVE solutions to provide realistic and immersive VR scenarios to soccer players, as well as to monitor the behavioral assessment using biofeedback techniques in real-time.
This solution will offer the opportunity to sport science professionals and physiotherapists to manipulate spatial and temporal constraints of all the VR features allowing users to interact with the systems while having high ecological validity and experimental control.
In this internship, students will be involved in creating new scenarios in close collaboration with experts, physiotherapists, and soccer players in a user-centered process. We aim to cover the fundamental requirements for a virtual reality system that will allow soccer’s professionals to perform rehabilitation and training plans more freely and with higher levels of motivation.
Candidate Requirements
Students will work 20-25 hours/week in the Madeira Pole of ITI/LARSyS located at the Madeira Tecnopolo, in Funchal.
Supervisor: Morgado Dias
During sleep, the brain oscillates between two major states, the Rapid Eye Movement (REM) and the non-REM. Cyclic patterns of REM and NREM define the sleep macrostructure, organized in discrete levels that are directly related to the sleep deepness. Transitional states are defined by the sleep microstructure, describing the transient and phasic events in the brain electrical activity that can be measured by electroencephalography. This imaging technique belongs to the electrobiological measurements group, and the electroencephalogram (EEG) is one of the most commonly used techniques in this field.
A relevant microstructure phasic event, defined in the NREM sleep, is the Cyclic Alternating Pattern (CAP), characterized by cycles of an activation phase followed by a quiescent phase. Studies have indicated that CAP is a relevant process to generate, consolidate and disrupt the sleep macrostructure. This patterns is the EEG marker of sleep instability and measures the effort of the brain to maintain sleep. CAP cycles have been associated with sleep apnea, bruxism, insomnia, periodic limb movements, restless leg syndrome, idiopathic generalized epilepsy and nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy. Therefore, scoring CAP is significant for characterization and diagnosis of such pathologies.
A large quantity of information is produced during a full night of EEG sleep, making the task of manually scoring all the CAP cycles unpractical, with a high probability of misclassification. Therefore, the objective of this work is to implement of an artificial neural network to perform the automatic classification of the CAP cycles by evaluating the signal from one EEG channel.
Students will work 20-25 hours/week in the Madeira Pole of ITI/LARSyS located at the Madeira Tecnopolo, in Funchal.
Supervisor: Élvio Rúbio Gouveia
Students will work 20-25 hours/week in the Madeira Pole of ITI/LARSyS located at the Madeira Tecnopolo, in Funchal.
