Call Fpi92-cvcpre-doctoral Fellowship

The Computer Vision Center (CVC) offers ONE pre-doctoral research
**General Rules**:
This call comes ahead of the final resolution of the projects funded by the AEI and the ESF+ and the definitive award of predoctoral contracts for the training of doctors, following the indications of article 12 of the call “Proyectos de Generación de Conocimiento”. Consequently, it is conditional on the final definite resolution of the aforementioned project call.
**Outline of the fellowship**:
The CVC offers a pre-doctoral fellowship for the project “Multimodal LLMs for Document Undestanding (MuDocU)” with reference PID2023-148027OB-I00 funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by FEDER, UE.
This call has been entrusted by the Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI) to the Computer Vision Center by the Subprograma Estatal de Formación, within the Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2021-2023, and is carried out under Order CIN/1025/2022, of 27 October, published in the BOE of 29 October, approving the regulatory bases for the award of a public grant for the formalization of a predoctoral contract, corresponding to various programs and subprograms of the said Plan.
**Job Description**:
Job title PhD fellow position linked to the project Multimodal LLMs for Document Undestanding - MuDocU ( PID2023-148027OB-I00)
Dedication Full time, 4-year grant (annual evaluation)
Supervisors Dimosthenis Karatzas and Ernest Valveny
Selection Committee Dr. Dimosthenis Karatzas Dr. Ernest Valveny
**Duration of the fellowship**:
The fellowship has a maximum duration of 4 years and it’s carried out through a pre-doctoral contract. If the pre-doctoral fellow obtains his/her PhD title before the start of the 4th year of the fellowship, he/she will be authorized to be hired this last year as a post-doctoral researcher with a raise in the salary, higher than in the pre-doctoral phase.
**Payment and eligible expenses according to the AEI**:
The grant will finance the contract (gross remuneration and employers' fees), compensation costs at the end of the contract and an additional aid to cover the expenses of doing research stays and enrolment fees of the doctoral studies, in accordance with the provisions of the call.
The salary offered is established by the Royal Decree 103/2019, of March 1, on the Statute of Research Personnel in Training. For establishing the said salary, the Single Agreement of the General Administration of the State will be used. Specifically, the basic remuneration table corresponding to the Group 1 category1. The remuneration per year is as follows:
**1st year (12 months)**: at least 60% of Group 1
**2nd, 3rd and 4th year (36 months)**: at least 75% of Group 1
**Incorporation**:
**Incompatibilities**:
This fellowship is not compatible with any other fellowship or grant that has the same objective and is financed with public or private funds; Spanish or European, as well as any wage or salary that involve a contractual or statutory relation.
It could be authorized payments coming from educational tasks (teaching) provided that they have a sporadic and not regular nature. The said payments cannot exceed the 30% of the total fellowship annual amount. The authorization is given by the Director of the CVC.
**Evaluation criteria**:
Applications will be evaluated by the IP’s of the project, Dimosthenis Karatzas and Ernest Valveny Llobet.
A maximum of 100 points will awarded to the following criteria:
Criterion Points
Resignation and admission of substitutes
Transition from the pre-doctoral stage to the post-doctoral orientation period.
If the pre-doctoral researcher defends and passes his/her PhD thesis before the start of the last year of the fellowship, previous confirmation of the defense of the thesis as well as passing it, the post-doctoral contract would be made official. These contracts will be full-time and will last for one year with a salary as established in section 5.
Modifications
The modification of the initial conditions of the fellowship and the period of time for its execution should be authorized by the CVC, who can request any information deemed suitable.
Interruptions
Any other interruption situation of the fellowship that is not contemplated in this section shall be communicated and approved by the thesis supervisor and will be evaluated by the CVC board of direction that will have to give its conformity and set forth the conditions together with the thesis director.
Breach of contract
The total or partial unfulfillment of the requirements and obligation established in this resolution and other applicable laws, as we as the conditions that, in its case, established in the corresponding resolution award, will in turn produce, previous creation of a breach of contract file, the loss of the right of the fellowship.
Bellaterra, 18 October 2024.
Josep Lladós Canet
DIRECTOR COMPUTER VISION CENTER