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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=PT link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Standard align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:150%'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%'>CALL FOR RESEARCH GRANT IN THE FRAMEWORK OF PROJECTS AND R&D INSTITUTIONS</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=Standard align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:150%'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%'>Process SmartWater01</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=Standard align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:150%'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%'>Submission of applications: Between 2021/09/09 and 2021/09/24.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=Standard style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'>It is open a call for one (1) research fellowship at the “Institute of Systems and Robotics – University of Coimbra” (ISR-UC), in the framework of the project “SmartWater - Smart Water Meter and Intelligent Water Analytics Platform for Water Pipeline Leakages Localization and End-Use Water Demand Outline” (reference: SmartWater/2019/47730), project led by the “CWJ - Projecto, SA” (CWJ-P) company, having ISR-UC as participant, and co-financed by the co-financed by the “Centro Region Operational Programme” (CENTRO 2020), Portugal 2020 (PT2020), and by the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=Standard style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=Standard style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><b><span lang=EN-US>Scientific area: </span></b>Electrical and Computer Engineering, or a related area.<span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Standard style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span style='background:yellow'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Standard style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><b><span lang=EN-US>Work plan:</span></b><span lang=EN-US> </span>The fellowship(s) aims(aim) at consolidating scientific training through the development of research and development work in computational intelligence / artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data analytics, data mining, modeling, prediction, computer programming, data pre-processing, feature selection from data, development of prediction models, classification, regression, using computational intelligence techniques, for water pipeline leakages detection, and end-use water demand prediction. A large part of the work will focus mainly on algorithms, data processing, and machine learning.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b>More Information at: </b><a href="https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/681561"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:dimgray;background:white;text-decoration:none'>https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/681561</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:PT'>Cumprimentos,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:PT'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:PT'>Lara Costa<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:PT'>Gestora de Ciência<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:PT'>Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:PT'>Departamento de Engenharia Eletrotécnica e de Computadores<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:PT'>Pólo II, Universidade de Coimbra<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:PT'>3030-290 Coimbra<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:PT'>Tel: 239 796 217 (Ext: 421113)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>