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|formation = 2003
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|type = [[Non-profit organization]]
|headquarters = [[Lisbon]], [[Portugal]]
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|membership = 420 members (Jan 2007)
|language = Portuguese
|leader_title = Chairman
|leader_name = André Levy ([[Post-doc]] fellow)
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|budget = 10k [[Euro sign|€]]
|website = http://www.abic-online.org
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'''ABIC''' - '''Associação dos Bolseiros de Investigação Científica''' is the
[[Portugal|Portuguese]] Association of Grant-holders Researchers. ABIC was established in [[2003]] and represents early stage researchers as [[doctorate]] students, and [[Postdoctoral researcher|post-doc]] fellows as well researchers who are not included is this two groups but are grant-holders. This association surged from a group of grant-holders researchers who gathered in [[2001]] to write a document [http://www.bolseiros.org/pdfs/caderno.pdf] to be present to all the stakeholders involved with research in [[Portugal]]. This group called “plataforma de bolseiros de investigação científica (PBIC)” evolved in ABIC.
ABIC main actions have been in the following areas: i) to alert the funding agencies in [[Portugal]] such as FCT [http://www.fct.mctes.pt (www.fct.mctes.pt)] that the grant-holders researchers should have [[Social security|social benefits]] and pension schemes as recommended at [[European Research Charter|The European Charter for Researchers]] [http://europa.eu.int/eracareers/pdf/am509774CEE_EN_E4.pdf]; ii) to urge the governments to open the positions available at the [[public sector]] and not use grant-holders researchers as cheap labour in [[Portugal]]; iii) to persuade the governments to deliver [[policies]] which are able to create scientific jobs, both at [[Public sector|public]] and [[private sector]].
ABIC is member of [[Eurodoc]], the European [[federation]] of national organisations of young researcher. ABIC is member as well of [[World Federation of Scientific Workers]] [http://www.fmts-wfsw.org/sommaire_en.php3 (website)]
The most active ABIC on-line resource is the bulletin board [http://forum.bolseiros.org/ (forum.bolseiros.org)] written in Portuguese but,in general, young Portuguese read and write English fluently.
== Portuguese Local Sections ==
* Young researchers [[Aveiro University]] [http://nbiua.web.ua.pt/]
* Young researchers [[Minho University]] [http://online.uminho.pt/academia/abic/ ]
* Young researchers [[Oeiras]] [http://bolseiros.itqb.unl.pt/]
* Young researchers [[Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa|FCT-UNL]] [http://moodle.fct.unl.pt/course/view.php?id=1185/]
* Young researchers [[Porto]] [http://porto.abic-online.org/]
==See also==
*[[Austrian National Union of Students]] - Equivalent organisation in [[Austria]].
*[[Confédération des jeunes chercheurs]] - Equivalent organisation in [[France]].
*[[National Postgraduate Committee]] - Equivalent organisation in the [[United Kingdom]].
*[[Thesis (representative body)|Thesis]] - Equivalent organisation in [[Germany]].
[[Category:National postgraduate representative bodies]]
[[Category:Youth organisations based in Portugal]]
[[Category:Non-profit organizations]]
[[Category:Education in Portugal]]
[[Category:Science and technology in Portugal]]