Given that only recently - Decree-Law No. 206/2009 of 31 August - has legislated on the "award of the title of specialist" for the effect of the composition of the academic staff at polytechnic institutions, being therefore impossible for the institutions, at present, to have the "experts" that the law refers, how will the Agency, meanwhile, meet such gap?

Until the conditions for awarding the "title of specialist", referred to in Decree-Law No. 206/2009 of 31 August, to meet the legal requirements for the composition of the academic staff of polytechnic institutions, and taking into account the provisions of paragraph 2 a) of article 6th, in paragraph 2 a) of article 16t and in paragraph 2 a) of article 57th of Decree-Law No. 74/2006 of 24 March and in paragraphs 48th and 49th of Law No. 62/2007 of 10 September, the Agency, until the end of 2014, will provisionally consider as an "expert" a staff member that meets cumulatively the following conditions:

a) Holds a higher education degree;

b) Has at least 10 years of professional experience in the area where teaching is to be carried on;

c) Has professional experience of proven quality and relevance to the profession in that area, as confirmed and accepted by the technical-scientific body of the HEI.