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FCT has announced the provisional results of the Call for Exploratory Projects under the MIT Portugal Programme, with 8 projects  recommended for funding, among 24 eligible applications. The funding attributed to each project is between €32,000 and €50,000, representing a total investment of €381,035.93 from the FCT budget.

The Call is designed to support research activities in Portuguese universities, promoting the value of knowledge and research, integrating human factors and technology, and stimulating multidisciplinary and sustainability-oriented approaches. The approved projects will develop research in the areas of the 3rd phase of the MIT-Portugal Program, in particular in the following themes: formulation and characterisation of sustainable and circular construction materials; monitoring and mapping of operations in space; a digital platform that combines durability data, maintenance models and energy rehabilitation decisions; pain perception and physical limitations for an intelligent collaborative robot; atmospheric tomography; a prototype for the study of the distribution, ecological and carbon dynamics of peatlands in the Iberian Peninsula; metallization of polymers for the automotive industry and operation planning of electrical networks.

The MIT Portugal Programme is part of a network of international cooperation programmes of Portugal with institutions from several countries under the goPORTUGAL initiative – Global Partnerships in Science and Technology, promoted by FCT.

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