Proposal process

Proposals are submitted via the FEUP-wide external institutions’ registration system.

To be able to submit, external organizations must:

Register as an external institution in the system (EN) (PT) (if you already have registered, you can skip to step 3).
Important: make sure you check the box “Dissertation - Master in Informatics and Computing Engineering (M.EIC)” / “Dissertação do Mestrado em Engenharia Informática e Computação (M.EIC)” in the list of interest areas
Wait for an e-mail with account confirmation and assigned credentials (the registration has to be reviewed and approved by the services before acceptance)
After having the account, you can go to the proposal process page for the current edition (use your assigned credentials in the top-right login fields if you are not logged in yet)
In the proposal process page, you can add a new proposal by choosing the option “New Proposal”
Fill in the details of the proposal, considering the guidelines regarding each of the fields presented in the following section.

Proposal fields

(see the end of the page for an image of the form)

Title:
The title of the proposal; it is one of the key elements when being searched by the candidates
Label:
An optional label, for internal purposes only, may be left blank
Type:
Defaults to “Dissertação”; should not be changed
Related Areas:
Choose the main scientific areas to which the proposal is related (ideally no more than two)
Other areas:
add other areas or keywords here; they will also be a key element when being searched by the candidates
Supervisor:
A university supervisor; You should already have a supervisor identified with whom the proposal should have been discussed (suggestion: check DEI’s researchers and their research interests, and contact them);
If that is not the case, you may leave this blank for an internal poll, but it is usually harder to find a suitable supervisor later.
Co-supervisor:
If applicable
Receiving Institution/Enterprise:
Your organization
Additional Institution/Enterprise:
An additional organization, if applicable

Organization’s Tutor
The person from the organization who will be directly involved with and responsible for tutoring the work of the student within the organization. The tutor must be knowledgeable of the area and capable of supporting the work of the student
(this is not an HR contact, see below).
Tutor Email, Tutor Phone
Contacts of the tutor
Role in the organisation
The tutor’s role in the organization
Activities in the areas of the proposal
A brief description of the activities/expertise of the tutor and/or team that may be relevant to support the project
HR contact name / HR Email:
An optional contact for the organization’s human resources department, if applicable

Context of the proposal
Description of the dissertation proposal, including contextual information and an overview of the work to be developed.
Goals
Main objectives of the dissertation proposal. When possible, you should detail why they are relevant and how they can be validated/measured.
Innovative aspects
Brief description of the aspects of the dissertation proposal that are considered novel.
Workplan
A preliminary and coarse version of the work plan, with an indication of major tasks to be developed by the student and their temporal alignment.
Bibliography
Bibliographical sources used in the preparation of the proposal, and that can be used by the student to bootstrap their research in the proposal planning stage.
Required profile
Information regarding hard/soft skills required/expected from the candidates
Related scientific conferences and journals
List of venues (conferences or journals) where a paper reflecting the work done and results obtained by the student can be published.

Notes
Other remarks regarding the proposal or candidates. In particular, if the proposal was created/discussed directly with a student and is addressed to him/her, that information should also be included here.

proposal fields