A number of our faculty are principal investigators in either national or european research projects. Many of these projects have funds for research grants. These are not PhD grants, you will be a researcher for the project, but in most cases it is possible (in fact you are encouraged) to do your PhD at the same time. Funding for fees must be worked out separately.

Current opportunities are the following:

• JEDI project (research topics: spatial-data mining, deductive databases, inductive logic programming) -- 1 grant
  Contact person: Prof. Michel Ferreira (michel_@_dcc.fc.up.pt)
  
• STAMPA project - 1 grant
  Contact person: Prof. Ricardo Rocha (ricroc_@_dcc.fc.up.pt)
  
• Future Internet -- 1 grant
  Contact person: Prof. Susana Sargento (ssargento_@_det.ua.pt)
  
• Mesh Networks -- 1 grant
  Contact person: Prof. Susana Sargento (ssargento_@_det.ua.pt)
  
• Virtual Private Networks -- 2 grants
  Contact person: Prof. Rui Aguiar (ruilaa_@_det.ua.pt)
• Signal Processing -- 1 grant
  Contact person: Prof. Paulo Jorge Ferreira (pjf_@_det.ua.pt)
  
• Integration of Biomedical Data (web crawling, information retrieval, text mining and data integration/aggregation over biomedical databases and data sources) -- 1 (possibly 2) grant
  Contact person: Prof. José Luis Oliveira (jlo_@_ua.pt)
• PEACE project (research topics: IMS, security, ad-hoc networking, service architectures) - 1 grant
  Contact person: Prof. Jonathan Rodriguez (jonathan_@_av.it.pt)
• Spam Telescope Miner (email detection using data mining techniques) -- 1 grant
  Contact person: Prof. Paulo Cortéz (pcortez_@_dsi.uminho.pt)