Not true for Portugal too. For my PhD I got a scholarship of 980€/month (too much below standard market rates for software engineers around here) and was not co

Not true for Portugal too. For my PhD I got a scholarship of 980€/month (too much below standard market rates for software engineers around here) and was not considered full time worker, so I had no benefits, no insurance, nada, zip. Although I consider it to be one of the best times that I had, in professional terms I didn't got much from it unfortunately..