Fellowships and Grants

Call for Applications to Individual Doctoral and Postdoctoral Grants 2011

In accordance with the Regulations for Advanced Training and Qualification of Human Resources, and taking into account the Research Grant Holder Statute, published by Law no. 40/2004 of August 18, the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) opens a call for funding of individual grants of the following types:

Post Doctoral Grants (BPD): These grants are intended for individuals who have already completed a doctoral degree, preferably within the last five years, for the purpose of carrying out advanced research in Portuguese or foreign scientific institutes of recognized merit.
Doctoral Grants (BD): These grants target holders of a university degree who are accepted as doctoral students in a Portuguese or foreign university.

FCT calls particular attention to changes in the Regulations, in particular in what concerns Articles 17, 24, 26, 33, 36, 37 and 41 and to the changes in the Evaluation Guide concerning Supervisor and Work Plan.

Funding

The grants are funded by Programa Operacional Potencial Humano of QREN Portugal 2007-2013 and by the national budget through MCTES.

Period of the Call

The call will be open from May 3 to 5pm, Lisbon time, on June 27, 2011.

Applications

The individual applications must be submitted by electronic means, using the web application available at:

https://concursos.fct.pt/bolsas/

No other means of submission will be allowed. All supporting documents must be scanned and submitted through the application form, in accordance with Article 19^th of the Regulations. Whenever possible the Supplement to the Diploma relative to each completed degree must be included (see Portaria no. 30, 2008 of January 10^th).

Candidates to Doctoral or Post Doctoral Grants, not yet holding the required academic degree for the grant type to which they are applying, may apply if they state in the application that they will hold the degree by December 31, 2011. In case these claims are not fulfilled the grant will not be awarded.

BPD candidates not yet holding the required Doctoral degree should pay particular attention no. 6 of Article 19 in the Regulations.

Approved grants, whose candidates hold the required academic degree for the grant type to which they are applying, may start the grant on a date to be defined, but not before October 1, 2011, provided the degree was not awarded after September 30; approved grants, whose candidates are awarded the required degree between October 1 and December 31, may start their grants on a date to be defined, but not before January 1, 2012.

Each candidate can only submit one application to this call, which will be evaluated by the evaluation panel of the scientific area indicated by the candidate (only one scientific area may be indicated). Submission of two applications implies cancelation of both.

Evaluation

Only applications sealed by the candsidates will be evaluated. The evaluation takes into account the merits of the candidate, work plan and hosting conditions. The evaluation panel for each main scientific domain will receive an evaluation guide, gauge the corresponding applications weighting the evaluation criteria and will produce an ordered list of candidates.