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04.04.2016 - 2014 Call for Project Grants in all Scientific
Domains
As of today, the acceptance agreements of the 689 proposals approved
for funding in this call will be made available to the principal
investigators. The agreements will be sent by FCT for the 384 proposals
funded through the Portuguese state budget; these projects are subjected to
the current FCT regulations (Regulamento de 2010). The acceptance
agreements of the remaining 305 proposals will be made available through
Balcão 2020, where they were submitted in November 2015. These projects
are co-funded by European Union Structural and Investment Funds and thus
subject to the Regulamento Específico do Domínio da Competitividade e
Internacionalização (RECI).
Please note that, in the future, all FCT projects will follow similar
rules, so FCT is preparing a new regulation, aligned with RECI, for
projects funded solely through the Portuguese state budget. In this
particular call, the rules governing those projects not submitted to
Balcao2020 will follow the FCT regulations in force at the date of
submission. Besides the legal implications of making any change, the
approval of a new regulation would require a period of public consultation
and discussion of 30 working days, followed by the time required to
incorporate any suggestions, which was bound to delay the whole
process.
FCT used all means at its disposal to accelerate the contracting of these
proposals, ensuring the simultaneous release of the acceptance agreements,
regardless of funding sources.
04.11.2015 - The proposals that have been approved for funding in the 2014 call for Project Grants in all Scientific Domains shall be funded through the Portuguese state budget and, whenever elegible, by European Union Structural and Investment Funds, included in the partnership agreement for the 2014-2020 Funding Framework, Portugal 2020. The elegible project grants will be formally invited by COMPETE 2020 to submit applications to the "Projetos de IC&DT" programme. Information on this procedure, including the list of elegible project grants, is available on the COMPETE 2020 website.
07.08.2015 - After evaluation, 689 proposals have been selected for funding (13% success rate), with €118.7 million. Final results pending appeals.
Through this call for scientific research and technological development (SR&TD) project grants, FCT wishes to support innovative ideas in all research domains that may make significant contributions to the advancement of scientific knowledge, and show clear potential for significant international impact, measured in terms of scientific output.
This call will support projects of up to 36 months.
The overall budget for this call is €70 million. Selected projects will be funded from the National State Budget.
Each approved proposal shall receive funding for 3 years (with possible extensions), of up to €200 000.
Researchers and research teams from the following organisations may apply: higher education institutions and associated research centres; Associated Laboratories; State Laboratories; private non-profit institutions (dedicated to R&D); companies (within proposals led by public or private, non-profit research institutions, and other public or private, non-profit organisations that carry out scientific research.
The Principal Investigator on an application should allocate at least 35% of time to the project.
Applications should be submitted online, in English,
between 25 November 2014 and 5pm (Lisbon Time), 29 January 2015.
Applicants are advised to read the Latest Application Guide and the Regulations, before submitting an application.
Submitted proposals shall be evaluated by international review panels,
specific to each research domain.
Each proposal shall be evaluated on its merit across five evaluation
criteria:
For further information of this call, please e-mail concursoprojetos@fct.pt.
The information on this page does not replace or override any of the requirements set forth in the Regulations or the Announcement of the Call for Proposals (in Portuguese).