PUBLIC COMPETITION NOTICE NO. 11/2018- PROPPG-Visiting Professor (VP) Rectified on October, 24, 2018

 
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Ministry of Education
                    Federal University of Technology, Paraná
                     Pro-Rectory of Research and Graduate Studies
                                                                                                     PR
                                                                          UNIVERSIDADE TECNOLÓGICA FEDERAL DO PARANÁ

Resolution 040/2018 of the Research and Postgraduation Council (COPPG)
                                  Establishes a notice of public competition for the
                                  hiring of visiting professors in accordance with the
                                  Visiting Professor program of the Federal
                                  Technological University of Paraná (Universidade
                                  Tecnológica Federal do Paraná)

       PUBLIC COMPETITION NOTICE NO. 11/2018—
            PROPPG—Visiting Professor (VP)
                   Rectified on October, 24, 2018

ITEM I – GOALS
Section 1. The purpose of this public competition notice is to select 07 (seven)
temporary staff in the following categories: Level 1 Senior Visiting Professor
(PVS1); Level 2 Senior Visiting Professor (PVS2; Level 1 Senior Visiting
Professor from a Foreign Institution (PVS-IE/PVS1); Level 2 Senior Visiting
Professor from a Foreign Institution (PVS-IE/PVS2). Candidates must have a
scientific production of international scope and recognized excellence, as
determined by UTFPR’s Regulations of the Visiting Professor Program
(Regulamento do Programa Professor Visitante, RPPV), approved by COPPG
Resolution 039/2016 and under the terms of Law No. 8745 of December 9, 1993,
and/or recognized performance in internationalization management. The
program’s goal is to develop activities aiming at the consolidation, excellence and
internationalization of the post-graduate programs of the Federal Technological
University of Paraná (Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, UTFPR), in
accordance with resolution 040/2018, from July 4, 2018, of the Research and
Post-Graduation Council (Conselho de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação, COPPG).
1.1. For the PVS2 category, the candidate’s minimum time since obtaining
    the doctoral degree must be 16 years; the candidate must meet the
    requirements for CNPq’s Level 1 scholarship in Research Productivity or
    Technological Development (Bolsista Produtividade em Pesquisa Nível 1
    or Bolsista Desenvolvimento Tecnológico Nível 1) in the proposal’s
    research area, and/or have recognized work in internationalization
    management.

    1.2. For the PVS1 category, the candidate’s minimum time since obtaining
    the doctoral degree must be 10 years, and the candidate must meet the
    requirements for CNPq’s Level 2 scholarship in Research Productivity or
    Technological Development (Bolsista Produtividade em Pesquisa Nível 2
    or Bolsista Desenvolvimento Tecnológico Nível 2) in the proposal’s
    research area, and/or have recognized work in internationalization
    management.

    1.3. For the PVS-IE/PVS2 category, the minimum time since obtaining the
    doctoral degree must be 16 years; the candidate must meet the
    requirements for CNPq’s Level 1 scholarship in Research Productivity or
    Technological Development (Bolsista Produtividade em Pesquisa Nível 1
    or Bolsista Desenvolvimento Tecnológico Nível 1) in the proposal’s
    research area, and/or have recognized work in internationalization
    management.

    1.4. For the PVS-IE/PVS1 category, the minimum time since obtaining the
    doctoral degree must be 10 years; the candidate must meet the
    requirements for CNPq’s Level 2 scholarship in Research Productivity or
    Technological Development (Bolsista Produtividade em Pesquisa Nível 2
    or Bolsista Desenvolvimento Tecnológico Nível 2) in the proposal’s
    research area, and/or have recognized work in internationalization
    management.

ITEM II – ELIGIBILITY FOR VISITING PROFESSOR VACANCIES
Section 2. Candidates for the hereby announced visiting professor vacancies
must be PhDs with a scientific production recognized for its excellence and
international scope, according to the categories described in Section 1.

      Sole Subsection. The candidate may be a permanent professor of at most
      three Post-graduate Programs (this one included).

Section 3. Ineligible for admittance as visiting professors, in accordance with
RPPV-UTFPR, are the following:

      I – Retired UTFPR professors or public servants;

      II – Active servants of the direct or indirect administration of the Union, the
      States, the Federal District and the Municipalities;

      III – Employees or servants of public companies or companies of mixed
      economy of the three spheres of government, as well as their subsidiaries
      or controlled companies (article 6 of Law 8745, from December 9, 1993).

ITEM III – HIRING PROPOSALS

Section 4. All UTFPR post-graduate programs are eligible to submit hiring
proposals to this public competition notice.

      4.1. Proposals resulting from the association between two or more post-
      graduate programs will not receive extra punctuation.

      4.2. Proposals that demonstrate a formal bond of the professor or
      researcher with a foreign institution will be prioritized for the PVS-IE/PVS2
      and PVSIE/PVS1 vacancies, assuming the fulfillment of the criteria set
      forth in Section 1 of Section I, and also the following:

             (1) to have a higher or similar position as the best Brazilian
             university in rankings such as: Times Higher Education, QS World
             University Rankings, Academic Ranking of World Universities,
             and/or
(2) to maintain a current formal research and post-graduate
               partnership with UTFPR, considered by the latter to be strategic,
               listed in the DIRINTER web page of UTFPR’s internet portal.

      4.3. Each proposal is limited to the nomination of one visiting professor.

      4.4. Each proposal will be assigned a permanent professor of the UTFPR
      post-graduate program, which will be responsible for assessing it.

      4.5. Each permanent professor of UTFPR’s post-graduate program may
      submit only one proposal.

      4.6. The proposal and its assigned professor must be approved by the
      collegiate of the respective UTFPR post-graduate program.

      4.7. More than one proposal from a single post-graduate program may be
      considered, provided there is a vacancy remaining after the Merit Analysis
      stage.

      4.8. Post-graduate programs that have visiting professors with currently
      effective contracts will only be considered in case of a vacancy remaining
      after the Merit Analysis stage.

Section 5. The following are the obligations of proponent post-graduate
programs:

      I – To guarantee a workplace and infrastructure adequate to the activities
      to be carried out by the visiting professor;

      II – To provide the VP with access to the libraries, the CAPES portal of
      journals and the laboratories and/or research groups of the project
      concentration area in which the visiting professor will carry out activities;

      III – To help the visiting professor ease into the routine of the post-graduate
      program, enabling their participation in its activities, including teaching,
      research and internationalization actions;

      IV – To maintain the necessary conditions for the execution of the project.

Section 6. The complete proposal of the post-graduate program, with all the VP
hiring-related documentation, should be sent via the Electronic Information
System (Sistema Eletrônico de Informação, SEI) to the Pro-Rectory of Research
and Post-Graduation (Pró-Reitoria de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação, PROPPG)
until 5:00 pm of the final date presented in the public notice’s schedule.

Section 7. The proposal for hiring a visiting professor should be presented in the
form of an administrative process in the SEI, with the following process type:
“Pessoal: Processo Seletivo para Contratação de Docente Temporário,
Substituto ou Visitantes” (Personnel: Process for Selecting and Hiring
Temporary, Substitute or Visiting Professors), containing the following
documents:

      I – Visiting professor application form signed by the coordinator of the post-
      graduate program and by the permanent professor responsible for the
      proposal and for the candidate; the candidate’s signature may be
      presented in electronic form (Annex A);

      II – Work plan, limited to 20 pages, containing time-sensitive goals and a
      schedule compatible with the term of contract. This plan should contain a
      detailed description of the candidate’s research activities, teaching and
      academic orientation, management and internationalization actions, as
      well as list the infrastructure necessary to meet all the requirements for the
      execution of the proposal.

      III – Statement by the permanent professor of the post-graduate program
      responsible for the proposal, stating that the necessary infrastructure to
      attend the visiting professor is available, indicating, where appropriate, the
      name of the laboratory.

      IV – Visiting professor’s updated curriculum vitae (CV), with the Lattes CV
      format being mandatory for Brazilians, and containing the following
      annexes:

             (a) Copies of undergraduate and        stricto sensu    post-graduate
                 diplomas (mandatory).
             (b) Table 1 (Annex B) identifying items to be used in the calculation
                 of the score (requests for points must follow the guidelines
provided by Annex C), and an indication of the page of the single
   file which contains proof for the respective request (mandatory),
(c) Copy of the first page(s) of the scientific article(s) to be used in
   the calculation of the score (if present as a request for points in
   Table 1),
(d) Cover page, first page and elements identifying the international
   book(s) with ISBN registry to be used in the calculation of the
   score (if present as a request for points in Table 1),
(e) Cover page, first page, and elements identifying the international
   book chapter(s) with ISBN registry to be used in the calculation
   of the score (if present as a request for points in Table 1),
(f) Copy of the elements that identify patent(s) requested by the
   candidate that have as co-inventor a strictu sensu post-
   graduation student, to be used in the calculation of the score (if
   present as a request for points in Table 1),
(g) Copy of elements identifying granted patent(s), to be used in the
   calculation of the score (if present as a request for points in
   Table 1),
(h) Copy of elements that identify the candidate as project
   coordinator financed by national or international companies or
   agencies, to be used in the calculation of the score (if present
   as a request for points in Table 1),
(i) When applicable, proof that the candidate has a teacher or
   researcher position in a foreign institution that meets at least one
   of the following conditions (if present as a request for points in
   Table 1):
      Researcher’s institution of origin is ranked among the top
       thousand in the World University Rankings 2018, or the
       Times Higher Education ranking, and/or;
      Researcher’s institution of origin has a currently valid formal
       research and post-graduate partnership with UTFPR,
       considered strategic by the latter (strategic partnerships
       listed in PROPPG’s website, in the UTFPR portal).
V – Copy of the minutes of the meeting(s) of the collegiate(s) of the
       proponent post-doctoral program(s), duly signed, including the name of the
       permanent professor responsible for the proposal, the research line/area
       of concentration benefited, and the approval of the candidate’s nomination
       to VP.

       VI – Memorandum of request submission by the Director(s) of Research
       and Post-Graduation of the involved Campi.

       7.1. In the calculation of the VP candidates’ scores, only the technical-
       scientific production (items "c" to "i") of the last five full years plus the
       current year (i.e., 2013 to 2018) will be considered; up to five scientific
       articles outside this period will be considered, as long as they are indicated
       by the candidate as the most relevant in their career.

       7.2. Documents I to VI are mandatory.

ITEM IV – ANALYSIS, CLASSIFICATION OF PROPOSALS AND
SCHEDULE
Section 8. The first stage of this selection and hiring process will consist of
document analysis in accordance with the provisions of Section 7.

       8.1. Document analysis will be carried out by PROPPG.

       8.2. Proposals which are not presented in the form and order described in
       Section    7   and/or    containing       incomplete   documentation   will   be
       automatically excluded from this competition.

Section 9. The second stage will consist of an analysis the proposal’s merit, as
well as the calculation of its classification.

       9.1. Merit analysis will be carried out exclusively by the Central
       Commission for Evaluation of the VP Procurement Process, appointed by
       the Pro-Rector of Research and Post-Graduation.

       9.2. The process of merit analysis is based on two components,
       designated “Titularity Assessment” and “Work Plan” assessment, each
       with a weight of 50% in the composition of the final grade.
9.3. The score attributed during Titularity Assessment will be calculated
based on the analysis of the candidate’s CV according to the score
requests in Table 1 and the respective supporting documents (Section 7);
the highest score obtained among the candidates will be considered the
maximum (reference) grade.

9.4. Candidates holding a CNPq scholarship in research (PQ) or
technological development (DT), provided that with internationally
recognized scientific production, will automatically receive a maximum
score in relation to the requirements described in §3.

9.5 Candidates who do not hold a PQ or DT grant from CNPq at the level
required by the category indicated in the application will have their CV
analyzed by examiner(s) of the Central Commission for Evaluation of the
VP Procurement Process, or ad hoc                consultant(s) designated by it,
considering the goals of this announcement.

9.6. Candidates who obtain a grade lower than 5 (corresponding to 50%
of the reference value specified in §3 of this section) will be considered
ineligible.

9.7. Only the candidates considered eligible after the Titularity Assessment
will have their Work Plan assessed.

9.8. The evaluation of the Work Plan will be carried out by the examiner(s)
of the Central Commission for Evaluation of the VP Procurement Process,
or by ad hoc consultants designated by it. Applicants will receive an
Approved (ten) or Not Approved (zero) grade, taking into account:

       (a) Quality, regularity and adequacy of the candidate’s scientific
              production in respect to the proposed work plan and research
              project;
       (b) Candidate’s experience in research lines related to the area they
              applied for;
       (c) Candidate experience in positions and management processes
              related to internationalization;
(d) Availability of the candidate to be part of the permanent faculty
                 of the program, developing research and teaching, as well as
                 research advisement and co-advisement activities;
             (e) Feasibility of the work plan, considering the available
                 infrastructure of the proponent post-graduate program(s) and
                 the term of contract;
             (f) Expected results of the work plan’s execution;
             (g) Relevance of the proposed work plan, considering its impact on
                 the involved post-graduate program(s) (proposals for the
                 association of distinct programs are valued) and,
             (h) Qualifications coherent with the proposed goals and activities.

Section 10. The Central Commission for Evaluation of the VP Procurement
Process should present a Final Report to the PROPPG, containing the relevant
information on each of the proposals and the list of approved candidates.

      Sole Subsection. If necessary, the score attributed to the Titularity
      Assessment component (Section 9, §3) will be employed as a tie-breaker,
      regardless of whether the candidate holds a CNPq scholarship in either
      research or technological development.

ITEM V – RESULTS AND APPEALS

Section 11. Based on the Final Report prepared by the Central Commission for
Evaluation of the VP Procurement Process, PROPPG will disclose the results in
accordance with the deadlines set forth in Section 12.

Section 12. Results can be appealed during both the first and second stages;
appeals have to be submitted within five working days of disclosure of the results
on the PROPPG website.

      12.1. The appeal must be sent to the Directorate of Research and Post-
      Graduate Studies (DIRPPG) of the respective campus, within the deadline
      set forth in this announcement; it will be forwarded via SEI to the PROPPG,
      and subsequently assessed by the committee responsible for the
      respective stage, based on the original proposal.
12.2. Inclusion of documents will not be allowed after the deadline for post-
       graduation programs’ submission of the processes; appeals referring to
       either of the stages of the competition also cannot include new documents.

       12.3. Appeals pertaining the first stage (Document Analysis) will be
       forwarded to the Ad hoc            Comission of Appeals, as determined by
       Resolution no. 038/16-COPPG, from September 19, 2016.

       12.4. Appeals pertaining the second stage (Merit Analysis) will be sent to
       the Commission for the Analysis of Appeals, according to the provisions of
       the Regulations of the Visiting Professor Program of the UTFPR, Section
       22, subsections 22.1 and 22.2.

Section 13. The final result of this public competition notice, after the judgment of
appeals, will be published in the Official Gazette of the Union upon request by
the president of the COPPG-UTFPR to the Rector.

     Sole Subsection. After publication of the final result in the Official Gazette
     of the Union, DIRGEP-UTFPR will send the list of selected applications to
     the COGERH of the Campus where the Visiting Professor will be employed.
     The contact between the Selected Candidate and the UTFPR will be made
     through the COGERH of the Campus of VP employment.

Section 14. For the present public competition notice the following schedule is
established:

       1          SUBMISSION OF PROCESSES by Post-            Not after November 23, 2018
                  graduate Programs
       2          Publication of the list of registered       November 27, 2018
                  applications
                  DOCUMENT ANALYSIS                           November 28 to December
                                                              3, 2018
       3          Publication of the list of approved         December 4, 2018
                  applications
       4          Period scheduled for approval-related       December 5 to December
                  appeals                                     11, 2018
                  Publication of results of the analysis of   Not after December 14, 2018
                  approval-related appeals
       5          MERIT ANALYSIS—Classification of            February 1 to February 16,
                  proposals                                   2019
       6          Publication of RESULTS of the MERIT         Not after February 19, 2019
                  ANALYSIS
       7          Period scheduled for merit analysis-        February 20 to February 26,
                  related appeals                             2019
Results of the assessment of merit         Not after February 28, 2019
                  analysis-related appeals and publication
                  of the competition’s FINAL RESULT

ITEM VI – HIRING DEADLINES AND REGIME OF EMPLOYMENT

Section 15. The contracts referred to in this public competition notice will be
carried out for a fixed period of time, under an exclusively dedicated work regime,
linked to the General Social Security System, and the benefits provided in article
11 of Law 8745/93.

       15.1. The hiring for the positions that are the object of this public notice
       shall be subject to budgetary availability, determined by the MEC (Ministry
       of Education).

       15.2. In the case of additional vacancies’ availability for visiting professors
       in the UTFPR equivalent teachers’ bank, candidates classified in the
       contest, but theretofore not hired, may be called by order of classification.

Section 16. For the hiring of Senior Visiting Professors, the reference salary of
already hired Higher Magisterium professors will be used as a basis (PVS2, PVS-
IE/PVS2 and PVS-IE/PVS1 are equivalent to Class E, Level 1; PVS1 is equivalent
to Class D, Level 1).

       Sole Subsection. In case the candidate’s experience and qualifications are
       compatible with those demanded by any program of a national
       development agency which pays a higher salary, the reference salary
       value of said agency can be adopted.

Section 17. The hired party cannot be replaced by another.

Section 18. Only proposals presenting hiring dates before June 29, 2019 will be
considered.

Section 19. Visiting Brazilian professors will be hired for at least 03 (three) months
and at most 12 (twelve) months.

       Sole Subsection. The contract may be renewed at the request of the
       coordinator of the post-graduate program, provided that the total period
does not exceed twenty-four (24) months and that the renewal is
       anticipated in the work plan of the proposal.

Section 20. The hiring of foreign visiting professors will be carried out for at least
03 (three) months and at most 24 (twenty-four) months.

       Sole Subsection. The contract may be renewed at the request of the
       coordinator of the post-graduate program, provided that the total period
       does not exceed twenty-four (48) months and that the renewal is
       anticipated in the work plan of the proposal.

ITEM VII – GENERAL PROVISIONS

Section 21. Scientific articles and other products or documents associated with
research developed during the term of the contract must, necessarily and at all
times, expose the association of the visiting professor/researcher’s to UTFPR; in
addition, these products have to be attached to the mandatory report to be
presented by the hired visiting professor to the post-graduate program to which
the professor is associated.

Section 22. Filling of the vacancies for Visiting Professor referred to in Section 1
is not mandatory.

Section 23. The Federal Justice Forum of Curitiba, Paraná Judiciary Section, is
elected to resolve any doubts or questions arising from this public notice.

Section 24. The candidate, when signing up, declares to be aware and to agree
with the terms of this notice.

Section 25. This public notice is valid for one year, counted from the date of
publication of the final result of the contest, and may be extended for another
year, at the request of PROPPG.

Section 26. This announcement comes into effect on the date of its publication in
the Official Gazette of the Union and in the PROPPG portal.
Curitiba, October, 24, 2018

         Prof. Valdir Fernandes

Provost of Research and Graduate Studies
Annex A – PRESENTATION
                     FORM FOR
VISITING PROFESSOR CANDIDATES
Ministry of Education

                  Universidade Federal Tecnológica do Paraná
                  Pro-Rectory of Research and Post-graduate Studies
                                                                                                            PR
                                                                                 UNIVERSIDADE TECNOLÓGICA FEDERAL DO PARANÁ

      PRESENTATION FORM FOR VISITING PROFESSOR
                    CANDIDATES
1.   POST-GRADUATE PROGRAM(S):

     __________________________________________________________

2.   NAME OF THE PERMANENT PROFESSOR RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PROPOSAL:

     ___________________________________________________________

3.   NAME OF THE VISITING PROFESSOR CANDIDATE:

     ___________________________________________________________

4.   VISITING PROFESSOR CATEGORY:

     ( ) L2SVP ( ) L1SVP ( ) FI-SVP/L2SVP ( ) FI-SVP/L1SVP

5.   HOLDER OF A CNPq SCHOLARSHIP IN RESEARCH PRODUCTIVITY OR PRODUCTIVITY IN
     TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATIVE EXTENSION:

     ( ) YES ( ) NO – IN CASE OF AN AFFIRMATIVE ANSWER, INDICATE THE SCHOLARSHIP’S
     LEVEL:

     ______________

6.   CNPq ADVISORY COMMITTEE IN WHICH THE PROPOSAL IS INSERTED:

     ___________________________________________________________

 Coordinator of the Post-graduate Program     Name of the permanent professor responsible for
                                                              the proposal

 Name of the Visiting Professor candidate
Annex B – For requesting points

Table 1 – Model for requesting points

 Item                        No. of points requested   Page of the single file
                                                       containing proof
Annex C – Points per item, considering production of the last 5
     years plus the current year, as well as relevant articles chosen
     by the candidate.
                                        ITEM                                               Points per     Limit
                                                                                          proven item
SNIP > 1.0 (or JCR > 2.0, in case SNIP is not available)                                      15          N.A.
0.5 < SNIP < 0.99 (or 1.0 < JCR < 1.99, in case SNIP is not available)                        12          N.A.
0.1 < SNIP < 0.49 (or 0.5 < JCR < 0.99, in case SNIP is not available)                         6        18 points
Book of international scope with ISBN registry                                                30          N.A.
Book chapter in book with international scope with ISBN registry                              15        45 points
Patent requested in the area                                                                   6        30 points
Patent granted in the area                                                                    30          N.A.
Project coordinator financed by company or national agencies                                  10        30 points
Project coordinator financed by international companies or agencies                           15          N.A.
Main PhD adviser (per PhD-graduated student)                                                   5        30 points
Main master's adviser (per master’s course-graduated student)                                  1        10 points
Stricto sensu post-graduation professor with international excellence in a foreign          10/year       N.A.
institution ranked among the top 1000 in the World University Rankings (2018), by
Times Higher Education
                                                                                           10/year        N.A.
Candidates from a foreign institution, with at least 10 years recognized experience and
practice in internationalization
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