a) Beneficiaries will not be considered eligible if, at the time of submission to this notice, they have applications under consideration submitted under other notices of the same type, except in situations where a withdrawal has been submitted.
b) If the company has projects underway within the scope of other notices of the same type of project, a new project will only be considered eligible within the scope of this AAC if it has ensured the hiring of all highly qualified human resources, with the date of submission of the application being later than the date of conclusion of the labour contracts for the projects underway.
c) Contribute to the objectives and investment priority set out in Point 1 of the Notice;
d) The human resources to be hired must have an academic degree with a level of qualification equal to or greater than 6 (bachelors, masters, doctorates or post-doctorates);
e) The academic degree of the human resources to be hired must be awarded by Portuguese higher education institutions in accredited programmes or obtained in foreign higher education institutions;
f) In the case of bachelor’s and master’s degree holders, in addition to the academic degree, specific professional specialisation relevant to the area of recruitment must be demonstrated in the business or regional context in which the contracting company operates. Bachelors and Masters graduates must have Bachelors and Masters graduates must have at least 5 years’ experience;
g) Present a programme for integrating human resources into the company’s dynamics, identifying the objectives, the tasks to be assigned and the complementary resources that will be allocated to them, as well as the internal person responsible for monitoring and integrating those hired;
h) Respect the maximum duration defined in point 10 of this CAA;
i) Be based on the existence of an employment contract between the worker and the beneficiary, with a minimum duration of 24 months;
j) The date of recruitment must be after the date of submission of the application;
k) The workers to be hired must not have an employment relationship with the beneficiary company (or with companies in which the beneficiary company has the possibility of exercising control, directly or through its partners and/or managers, in terms of holding more than 50% of the share capital or a decisive position in the deliberations of the governing bodies) during the 12 months prior to the date of the application;
l) The hires must not correspond to jobs held by managers, directors and/or partners/shareholders of the beneficiary company;
m) There is a net creation of jobs, in terms of highly qualified human resources, calculated as the difference between the monthly average in the year the project is completed and the monthly average in the pre-project year;
n) The beneficiary must undertake to keep the jobs supported under the project in the company for three years from the date of the project’s conclusion, and the technical staff hired may be replaced by others with at least equivalent qualifications.