Direção de Projectos (DP)

As part of the multi-annual funding program for R&D units, FCT published today (June 30) the Notice of the Call of the evaluation process 2023-2024. The R&D Units must register on the FCT Science and Technology Portal, between September 14 and October 10, 2023, and the period for submission of applications will run from October 11, 2023 to January 15, 2024, until 5 pm (Lisbon time). The Registration and Application Guidelines will be made available as soon as possible.

The R&D Units are periodically evaluated by panels of international evaluators, who award a classification and funding for the following multi-annual period. The evaluation that will be carried out focuses on the scientific and technological activities developed by the R&D units between January 1st, 2018 and August 31st, 2023 and on the objectives, strategy, activity plan and organization for the period 2025-2029.

The 312 R&D Units funded by the FCT are distributed across various areas of knowledge and throughout the country. The R&D Units may be entities integrated into different universities or polytechnics, constitute partnerships between universities or have independent status and autonomous operation. The R&D units financed can be consulted in the Atlas of R&D Units published by FCT.

FCT’s Regulation for the Evaluation and Pluriannual Funding of Research and Development Units, Regulation no. 404/2022, of April 27, 2022, is being amended in order to allow the adoption of simplified costs, and thus reduce the administrative burden on R&D institutions.

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