A PhD Scholarship is open with CESAM under the project “BESIDE - Institutional, Behavioural, critical and adaptive economics towards Sustainable Development, management of natural capital and circular Economy”. The research activities will focus on the socioeconomic characterization and the status of Gender Equality within the Blue Economy across different European sea basins!

The selected candidate must enrol in the Doctoral Programme in Economics and Business at the University of Aveiro. The PhD work plan to be carried out, in the doctoral program in Economic and Business Sciences, at the University of Aveiro, will be anchored on the BESIDE platform, under the topic of sustainable blue economy, and integrated in the WIN-BIG - Women IN Blue economy Intelligence Gathering and capacity boosting, funded by the European Commission through the Horizon Europe, call CINEA EMFAF-2022-PIA-WBE).

The work plan with reference A addresses the scientific question – How are the different challenges related to sustainable development goal 5, gender equality, reflected on the European Blue Economy as a whole, and within each sea basin in particular. Additionally, it will focus on which way can science and data contribute to the development of novel and adequate capacity building models while supporting the setup of more inclusive policies to end gender inequality in this relevant economic sector?

The workplan will imply the development of technical and scientific work within the scope of socioeconomic characterization of the status of gender equality at different levels within the blue economy in different European sea basins, including the mapping of specific needs for regional capacitation and training of women in this sector. It will also include the preparation of a Roadmap to EU Blue Economy Gender Equality and a set of public policy recommendations to support the path to a more gender balanced blue economy in Europe. The work to be carried out by the grant holder will also include (but not limited to) the following of crosscutting tasks:

• Development of a detailed research plan to obtain a doctor's degree, within the framework of the strategic objectives of ERA CHAIR, namely in terms of research activity within sustainable blue economy; and its contributions to sustainable development goals;
• Bibliographic research, literature review, document and data analysis;
• Writing and contributing to publications in journals and/or reference scientific events within the scope of the research topic;
• Elaboration of technical and scientific reports and of documents intended for different stakeholders and audiences;
• Participation in related project/projects meetings (national and/or international);
• Development of actions for the communication and dissemination of the project(s) and its results;
• Other tasks assigned to support the development of the project(s) and the associated team.