R&D Projects

In its Program, the 18th Constitutional Government renews the Commitment to Science and maintains as national priority the further scientific and technological development of the country, defining new targets and development indicators.

In order to achieve this objective, several measures are considered, among which the enhancement of the R&D Projects Program and of strategic projects supported by R&D Units and Associate Laboratories, evaluated and selected in calls, by international panels of experts.

According to Art. 6, no. 4 of Decree-Law 125/99, the Associate Laboratories were formally consulted on the text of these regulations.

These regulations for Scientific Research and Technological Development Projects update the previous version of the regulations for Scientific Research and Technological Development Projects of November 2008 and also include specific provisions regarding strategic projects supported by R&D Units and Associate Laboratories and adapt them to the annual Calls for projects in all scientific areas.

Article 1
Object

1. These Regulations set forth the general terms under which funding is granted to scientific and technological research projects through the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), and, when eligible, co-funded by the Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento Regional (FEDER) through the Programa Operacional Factores de Competitividade (POFC), in accordance with the provisions of the Regulamento de Execução do Sistema de Apoio a Entidades do Sistema Científico e Tecnológico Nacional (Regulamento SAESCTN) for co-funded projects.
2. The System of Support for Entities belonging to the National Scientific and Technological System under the POFC applies to the Convergence Objective regions (North, Centre and Alentejo).
3. These regulations apply to:
   1. SR&TD projects in all scientific areas;
   2. Strategic projects supported by Associate Laboratories and R&D Units.
4. The announcement of the opening of each call may define further technical stipulations or limitations to the general terms set forth in these Regulations.

Article 2
Recipient Entities

1. The following entities having legal authority to enter into contracts may, either individually or jointly, submit proposals for funding of the projects mentioned in Article 1, no. 3, paragraph a) that are subject to these Regulations:

   1. Higher Education Institutions, their institutes and R&D centres;
   2. Associate Laboratories;
   3. State Laboratories;
   4. Private non-profit institutions whose main objective is to carry out S&T activities;
   5. Companies, provided they participate in projects headed by public or private non-profit R&D institutions;
   6. Other public and private non-profit institutions which carry out or participate in scientific research activities.
2. R&D Units that have received in their latest evaluation Good or above and whose team has a number of FTEs equivalent to or higher than 20 and Associate Laboratories may apply for funding of the projects mentioned in Art. 1, no. 3, paragraph b); R&D Units and Associate Laboratories may also apply jointly with Companies.
3. The Principal Contractor (PC) is the recipient entity that proposes and leads the project. In addition to coordinating the project, the Principal Contractor is responsible for communicating with the FCT on behalf of all the partners.
4. The institutions mentioned in no. 1, paragraph e) cannot serve as Principal Contractor, except when they are integrated into European Community programs specifically intended for industry.
5. When various entities participate jointly in a project, the project proposal must indicate which institution is responsible for each aspect of the plan of activities and which institution is the Principal Contractor.
6. The possible involvement of foreign institutions as partners in the project shall not confer upon them the status of recipient entity with funding, except when there is an international agreement or international reciprocity mechanism, duly signed by the FCT, authorized by the higher governing bodies and expressly indicated in the Announcement of the Call for Proposals; these institutions may not be co-funded by the FEDER.
7. In international cooperation projects, the figure of the Principal Contractor does not exist, and all participating Portuguese institutions shall communicate with the FCT individually.

Article 3
GENERAL TERMS FOR ADMISSION AND ACCEPTANCE OF PROJECTS

1. A Principal Investigator (PI) must be named for each project, who will be co-responsible, along with the PC, for the proposal and management of the project and for the fulfillment of the proposed objectives and the compliance with the regulations governing the funding award.
2. The PI shall be dedicated to the project, according to the duration of the proposed activities, at no less than:
   1. 35% (FTE) for the projects mentioned in Article 1, no. 3, paragraph a)
   2. 25% (FTE) for the projects mentioned in Article 1, no. 3, paragraph b). In exceptional and duly substantiated cases, authorized by the FCT, this percentage may be lower.
3. For the projects mentioned in Article 1, no. 3, paragraph a), the remaining members of the research team shall be dedicated to the project, according to their participation, at no less than 15% (FTE).
4. The Acceptance Agreement shall not be made available for signing for any projects recommended for funding that would cause the respective PI or any other member of the research team to exceed 100% (FTE) dedication after the beginning of the project, when all the FCT-managed projects in which he/she is participating are taken into account.
5. Multiple applications of the same project shall not be accepted in the following circumstances:
   1. In different scientific areas of the same call;
   2. In different calls where there is a temporal overlap in the application receipt periods;
   3. In the case of applications for calls of different thematic scopes submitted in different application receipt periods, a recommendation for funding of one of them shall exclude the others from the decision-making process.
6. Proposals that have been submitted in previous rounds of the same call and for which the decision-making process is not yet finished, shall not be accepted.
7. Proposals whose PIs are in a situation of unjustified noncompliance with the regulatory requirements with respect to submission of technical reports from previous projects in which they were also PI shall not be accepted.
8. Proposals whose PIs are in a situation of unjustified noncompliance with the regulatory requirements with respect to submission of financial reports or return of funds transferred to the PI relative to previous projects with the same PI shall not be accepted.
9. The Principal Contractors and participants must, at the time they sign the Acceptance Agreement, show proof that they have no outstanding debts to the Social Security System or the Tax Authorities or authorize the FCT to access the respective information in order to verify these conditions.
10. In the case of a proposal involving various entities, a protocol must be signed between the parties with funding from FCT or own funding, explicitly naming the PI and detailing the scope of cooperation between the entities involved, how the joint responsibilities will be divided among the parties, the duties and rights of the parties and, when applicable, any questions regarding confidentiality, intellectual property and final property of any equipment acquired or developed during the execution of the project.
11. In the proposal phase, the recipient entities must agree to comply with the applicable national and community norms, particularly as regards competition, the environment, equal opportunity and gender, and public contracting whenever applicable.

Article 4
Eligible and ineligible expenses

1. The following costs borne by the recipients and incurred exclusively in the execution of the project are considered eligible:

   1. Human resources dedicated to SR&TD activities, including costs of grant recipients and fixed-term contracts. The funding of grants shall comply with the norms for the award of grants in SR&TD projects for the projects mentioned in Article 1, no. 3, paragraph a) and with the norms for the award of grants in SR&TD projects for the projects mentioned in Article 1, no. 3, paragraph b);
   2. Missions in Portugal and abroad directly related to the project;
   3. Consultants;
   4. Acquisition of goods and services and other current expenses directly related to the execution of the project, and the intervention of licensed auditors or accountants;
   5. Registration abroad of patents, copyrights, utility models and designs, national models or brands associated with other forms of intellectual property, namely fees, prior-art searches and consultants’ fees;
   6. Adaptation of buildings and facilities when essential to carrying out the project, namely for environmental and safety questions, provided that these costs do not exceed 10% of the total eligible cost of the project;
   7. Acquisition of scientific and technical instruments essential to the project and which shall remain attached to the project during the period of its execution;
   8. Overheads based on the real costs incurred due to execution of the project and which are imputable to it on a pro-rated basis according to a fair and equitable method of calculation duly justified and periodically reviewed, up to a limit of 20% of the eligible direct costs of the corresponding participation in the project; the methodology for clearing these charges may be replaced by the application of a flat rate system, on the basis of the direct expenditure resulting from the project, under conditions to be determined by the Instituto Financeiro para o Desenvolvimento Regional, IP (IFDR).
2. In the projects mentioned in Article 1, no. 3, paragraph b), overheads shall not be eligible.
3. In determining the amount of the eligible expenses to be co-paid, the value added tax (VAT) is deducted whenever the recipient entity (proposing or participating) is subject to this tax and may exercise their right to the respective deduction.
4. Eligibility of expenses is determined by their nature and whether they are reasonable and comply with the applicable legislation.
5. Only costs duly substantiated by invoices or equivalent documents under the terms of Article 29 of the VAT Code and receipts or equivalent proofs of payment can be funded; all tax requirements set forth in Article 36 of the VAT Code must be met, and the rules governing public expenditures must also be followed (whenever applicable).
6. The Announcement of the Call for Proposals may limit the types of eligible expenses referred to in point 1 of this article.
7. Under no circumstances shall overfunding of proposals be allowed, and eligible costs funded under these regulations cannot be the object of funding by any other national or EU program.
8. Expenses incurred prior to the project start date mentioned in the Acceptance agreement shall not be considered eligible.
9. In addition to the restrictions set forth in the Order of the Minister for Environment, Land Planning and Regional Development no. 10/2009 of 24 September, transactions between entities participating in the project are not eligible.

Article 5
Application

1. Applications shall be submitted after the public call for proposals is announced on the FCT and Competitiveness Factors Thematic Operational Programme websites.
2. Applications must be submitted online through the FCT website by the deadline indicated in the Announcement of the Call for Proposals.
3. As all applications are evaluated by international evaluation panels, the main components of the application must be submitted in English.
4. A scanned copy of the Declaration of Commitment, in accordance with the template provided for that purpose, must be submitted online to FCT no later than 10 working days after the call is closed. FCT may request the original document at a later date.
5. The Declaration of Commitment must be signed and initialed by someone who is legally authorized to bind the recipient organizations as well as by the PI.
6. The submission of the Declaration of Commitment within the established timeframes and terms is the exclusive responsibility of the PI.

Article 6
Verification of admissibility and eligibility of applications

Verification of the formal admission requirements for the call, namely the conformity of the Declaration of Commitment, the admissibility and eligibility of the proposing entities and projects is done by the FCT administrative services prior to beginning the evaluation and selection process.

Article 7
Evaluation and selection

1. The evaluation is made by evaluation panels of independent national and international specialists of recognized merit and competence.
2. Evaluation panels shall be set up for each call for proposals.
3. No one who is responsible for or involved in any program or project submitting a proposal in the call for proposals or who is responsible for proposing or participating organizations may serve on the evaluation panels.

Article 8
Nomination of the members of evaluation and selection panels

1. Members of the evaluation and selection panels shall be designated by the FCT Board of Directors or by one of its members authorized to do so. The list of experts who make up the panels shall be approved by the Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education.
2. The composition of the evaluation panels shall be published on the FCT website.

Article 9
Duties of the evaluation and selection panels

1. The evaluation and selection panels are charged with:

   1. Where necessary, proposing the naming of national and foreign experts to submit opinions regarding the proposals submitted, in case of the projects mentioned in Article 1, no. 3, paragraph a);
   2. Determining whether projects are eligible under the terms set forth in the Announcement of the Call for Proposals;
   3. Applying the approved selection and evaluation criteria and notation tools;
   4. Selecting and ranking proposals to be funded;
   5. Recommending, with due justification, possible modifications to the plan of work and the proposed budget for each proposal selected;
   6. Suggesting associations or collaboration between projects in order to form larger teams with greater scientific capabilities, with the necessary changes in the funding to be awarded, in case of the projects mentioned in Article 1, no. 3, paragraph a);
   7. Writing up an evaluation for each project and an overall evaluation report for the respective scientific area.

2. The experts referred to in paragraph a), no. 1 of the current article, designated by the FCT based on the recommendations of the evaluation panel, shall be Portuguese or foreign individuals of recognized merit in the scientific areas of the proposals to be evaluated, who shall be responsible for issuing the expert opinions that are requested of them by the evaluation panels.

3. For the projects mentioned in Article 1, no. 3, paragraph a), the evaluation panel for a project shall have access to all the projects and all the proposals that the PI is involved in.

Article 10
Evaluation and selection criteria

1. The Announcement of the Call for Proposals establishes the conditions of the Call and lists the criteria used to evaluate the proposals, namely:

   1. Scientific merit and innovative nature of the project from an international standpoint;
   2. Scientific merit of the research team;
   3. Feasibility of the plan of work and reasonableness of the budget;
   4. Contribution to the body of knowledge and competence of the National Science and Technology System;
   5. Potential economic value of the technology (if appropriate).

2. Application of these evaluation criteria shall take into account, among other considerations, the following:

   1. For criterion A:
      1. Relevance and originality of the project proposed (based on the state-of-the-art in a determined scientific area and previous work done by the proposing team);
      2. Methodology adopted for carrying out the project;
      3. Expected results and their contribution to scientific and technological knowledge;
      4. Resulting publications and articles;
      5. Contribution towards promoting and disseminating science and technology;
      6. Production of knowledge that can be incorporated into and applied to the business sector, if applicable.
   2. For criterion B:
      1. Scientific productivity of the team (references to publications and citations in published works, other relevant indicators);
      2. Abilities and skills to adequately execute the proposed project (team configuration, Principal Investigator’s (PI) qualifications);
      3. Ability to involve young researchers in training;
      4. Availability of the team and non duplication of objectives in relation to other projects underway;
      5. The degree of internationalization of the team;
      6. Degree of success in previous projects in relation to the Principal Investigator (PI) (in the case of young PIs, this requirement must be assessed based on the potential revealed by the PIs curriculum vitae in the absence of prior concrete accomplishments);
      7. Level of commitment of any companies participating in the project (if applicable).
   3. For criterion C:
      1. Organization of the project in terms of the proposed objectives and resources (duration, equipment, size of the team, institutional and management resources);
      2. Institutional resources of the proposing and participating entities (technical-scientific, organizational and managerial and, when appropriate, co-funding capacity on the part of companies).
   4. For criterion D:
      1. Contribution to the body of knowledge and competence of the National Science and Technology System (expected effects and results).
   5. Para o critério E:
      1. Potential economic value of the technology (if appropriate), namely in terms of its impact on the competitiveness of the national socio-economic system.
3. In case of an equal positioning in the hierarchization among projects, the existence of private and foreign funding shall be the preference condition.

Article 11
Communication of results

1. The FCT shall notify the PI and the PC of the proposed decision of whether or not to fund the project and of the evaluation panel’s expert opinion within 20 working days of receiving the expert opinions and reports mentioned in paragraph g) of no. 1 of Article 9.
2. In exceptional cases, the President of the FCT may decide to give the notification mentioned in the previous number before the reception of all the expert opinions.
3. Under the terms of Article 100 and subsequent articles of the Code of Administrative Procedure, for the purpose of Preliminary Hearing, the PI may, if he/she so wishes and within 10 working days of being notified of the proposed decision, comment the decision, responding with any observations that he/she deems pertinent. These observations must be submitted online on the FCT website.
4. The PI who accepts the proposed decision will need to explicitly state this fact on the FCT website together with any budget changes implied by a budget smaller than originally proposed, during the period stated in no. 3 .

Article 12
Analysis of Preliminary Hearing comments

1. Any duly substantiated comments submitted by the PI regarding the proposed decision during the Preliminary Hearing shall, in case of administrative or procedural questions, be examined by the FCT.
2. The FCT shall communicate the final decision on the results of the preliminary hearing to the PI, after completion of the procedures mentioned in article 14.

Article 13
Resources

1. Any duly substantiated comments submitted by the PI regarding the proposed decision shall, in case of scientific questions, be examined by panels of independent experts. This reappraisal must explicitly be requested online on the FCT website, together with any allegation under the terms of Article 12.
2. Members of the expert panels referred to under no. 1 shall be designated by the FCT Board of Directors or by one of its members authorized to do so. The list of experts who make up the panels shall be approved by the Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education.
3. The same restrictions that apply to members of evaluation panels as set forth in these Regulations shall also apply to members of these panels.
4. The panels of experts referred to in no. 1 are charged with analyzing any observations of scientific nature that are submitted by the PI and recommending to either uphold or modify the decision regarding approval and funding as well as recommending, with due justification, changes to the project or the funding awarded.
5. The decision of the evaluation panel may be reversed in the event that the existence of gross errors or negligence that were detrimental to the proposing entities is confirmed.
6. The expert committees shall also draw up a final report that includes, in addition to the results, any criticism or recommendations that may contribute to improving the evaluation system. Any situations of conflict of interest that come to light during the expert panel’s intervention must be identified in the final report.
7. The FCT shall communicate the final decision on the results of the reappraisal procedure to the PI, after completion of the procedures mentioned in article 14.

Article 14
The funding decision-making process

1. For applications not co-funded by the QREN, the FCT Board of Directors, with the possibility to sub-delegate to its members, shall submit its funding decision proposal, duly substantiated, to be approved by the Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education.
2. In the case of applications co-funded by the POFC (QREN), the FCT Board of Directors, with the possibility to sub-delegate to its members, shall submit the decision proposals, duly substantiated, to the Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education and the Managing Authority of the POFC.
3. The Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education shall decide on the funding from the State budget and the Managing Authority of the POFC shall decide on the funding from FEDER funds based on the terms of the proposal referred to in the previous number.

Article 15
Acceptance agreement and project start date

1. The PC and the PI shall be notified of the project funding decision by the FCT within 15 working days after the final decision is known, under the terms of Article 14.
2. Once the notification of the funding decision has been sent to the PC and the PI, and in situations that do not violate the provisions of Article 3, the acceptance agreement must be signed and initialed by someone legally authorized to bind the Principal Contractor and the Participating Organizations, as well as by the Principal Investigator and returned to the FCT within 20 working days; this deadline may be extended for an equal length of time provided that the Principal Contractor presents justifiable grounds to the FCT.
3. Principal Contractors and Participating Organizations that have not given their consent to access their tax and social security records under the terms of Article 4 of Decree-Law 114/2007, of 19 April, must show proof that they have no outstanding debts to the Social Security System or the Tax Authorities until the date of signature of the acceptance agreement.
4. If the duly signed acceptance agreement is not returned to the FCT by the deadline referred to in number two for reasons imputable to the Principal Contractor, the decision to award the funding shall expire.
5. Project start dates shall be no later than 90 calendar days after the PIs and PCs have been notified of the funding decision except in situations duly justified to the FCT and by decision of the President of the FCT.

Article 16
Changes to projects

1. Requests to make changes to projects already approved must be formalized by submitting a written document that contains detailed information justifying the necessity for such alteration.
2. Changes that take the form of a change between funding categories without increasing the total amount of public funding, and which do not exceed 20% of the amount designated for each of the funding categories (not applicable to overheads or to adaptation of buildings and facilities) do not require special approval, but they must be communicated to the FCT by the PI and must be described and duly justified in the progress reports to be sent to the FCT.
3. Requests to postpone the deadline for more than 12 months subsequent to the initially approved duration shall not be permitted.
4. Requests to postpone the deadline for less than 12 months shall only be permitted in exceptional and duly substantiated cases.

Article 17
Payments

1. Advance payment of at least 15% of the approved funding for the project shall be made to the PC once the respective Acceptance Agreement referred to in no. 3 of Article 15 has been returned to the FCT.
2. Payments shall be made to the PC as reimbursements for each list of documented expenses, in amounts that will allow for a progressive reduction of the amount of the advance payment referred to in no. 1.
3. The remainder, up to the amount of funding approved, shall be paid in the form of a final reimbursement once the scientific and financial components of the project have been completed.
4. Under no circumstances shall the sum of the payments exceed 95% of the total funding approved before the project is completed.
5. No payments can be made until it has been confirmed that the recipient of the funding has no outstanding debts to the Social Security System and the Tax Authorities.
6. Payments made to companies, directly or through the Principal Contractor, may not exceed 50% of the total cost of the company's participation. During the course of the project, any companies involved must submit proof of the total expenditure, both those funded through the call and those borne by the company itself.

Article 18
Proof of expenses

1. Proof of expenses shall be made by online submission of lists identifying the expenses paid, using the form provided for this purpose on the FCT website.
2. With respect to overheads, if calculated based on the real costs incurred, the corresponding expenses shall be justified based on the description of the calculation method of assigning overheads for the project and the breakdown key used.
3. Lists of expenses to be submitted to the FCT should document a minimum amount of expenditure paid totaling at least 10% of the total funding for the project. The last list of expenses is exempt from this rule.
4. The length of time between consecutive submissions of expense lists should not exceed six months; this period shall be counted from the date that Advance Payment is made at the start of the project.
5. The last expense list should be submitted no later than 90 calendar days after the conclusion date of the project. Upon that date, it shall be deemed that lists of all expenditures made by the recipient entities have already been submitted.
6. Eligible expenses made by the recipient entities must be validated by a licensed auditor or, in the case of payment claims with an eligible expenditure of less than €200.000 or companies that are not subject to a “legal certification of accounts”, recipients may select to have this validation done by a licensed accountant, which will confirm that the approved expenses were made, that the documents substantiating the expenses have been correctly entered in the ledgers and that the financial support has been properly accounted for under the terms of the applicable laws. When the recipient entities are Public Administration entities, the aforementioned certification may be carried out by the financial officer authorized by the respective entity.

Article 19
Revocation of the funding decision

1. The decision to fund may be revoked by the FCT Board of Directors, with the possibility to sub-delegate to its members, or by the Management Authority of the POFC if co-funding was awarded under this program, under the following circumstances:

   1. Noncompliance with the regulations or nonfulfillment of commitments made which seriously jeopardizes achievement of the defined objectives, for reasons imputable to the Principal Contractor or Participating Organizations or the Principal Investigator, or for refusal to supply information or any other relevant items that may be solicited;
   2. Noncompliance, for reasons imputable to the Principal Contractor or Participating Organizations, with their respective legal and fiscal obligations;
   3. Giving of false information regarding the recipient’s situation or falsification of data provided in the proposal, evaluation and follow-up of the project.
   4. Duplication of a significant scientific component of a project that is already funded following calls organized by the FCT, with or without Community funding.
2. Revocation of the funding decision shall imply cancellation of the funding and subsequent obligation to repay the co-funding already received, with the Principal Contractor being required to replace the amounts received, plus any interest due, within 30 working days of receiving the respective notification, in accordance with the terms of the Acceptance Agreement.
3. Should the funding decision be revoked for the reasons set forth in paragraph c) of no. 1, the organization in question shall be considered ineligible for support under the Support System for the National Science and Technology System for a period of five years.
4. Should the funding decision be revoked for the reasons set forth in paragraph d) of no. 1, the Principal Investigator shall be prevented from taking over the role of PI or team member of a project for a period of two years.

Article 20
Progress reports and final reports

1. PCs shall submit annual scientific progress reports and a final scientific report on the FCT website for the purpose of follow-up and final evaluation.
2. Scientific progress reports to be submitted annually on the FCT website shall briefly describe the work carried out, the results obtained and any divergence from the work proposed or the budget approved.
3. The final report of the scientific activity shall describe, in detail, the work carried out during the period in question; any publications and other results ensuing from the project should be itemized. Access to publications and other results must be ensured by indicating the URL if they have been published online and made available to the public, or on a web server maintained by the project, or by transferring the files in pdf format to FCT servers. The FCT may limit the volume and type of documents that can be uploaded; the PI shall be responsible for selecting the most important material and making the remaining work available through a website if it exceeds this limit.
4. Scientific progress reports and final reports must be submitted online on the FCT website within 30 calendar days after completion of the activities of each year of the project and after completion of the project, respectively.
5. The final financial report, which is drawn up by the FCT based on the expenses that were considered eligible during the course of the project and made available online on the FCT website, must be validated by the PI within 10 calendar days after it is made available.
6. The reports referred to in the previous numbers may be examined by follow-up committees set up for each scientific field; these committees may recommend suspension or cancellation of the funding.

Article 21
Management verifications

1. Projects are the object of management verifications carried out by the FCT, or by entities designated by the FCT or by all entities legally authorized to do so, in accordance with the applicable rules.
2. Recipient entities are required to use a separate accounting system or a suitable accounting code for all project-related transactions, in accordance with current accounting standards.
3. The original expense documents and receipts must be marked with an ink stamp, the characteristics of which shall be defined by the FCT.

4. The project dossier shall contain the following items:

   1. Proposal submission form and respective appendices, including the Declaration of Intention referred to in article 5, no. 4;
   2. Notification of the decision to approve;
   3. Reformulation of the proposal data to reflect the evaluation panel recommendations;
   4. Acceptance Agreement;
   5. Request for change to the decision to approve, if applicable;
   6. Document showing VAT status;
   7. Itemized expense lists and the original documents substantiating them;
   8. Documentation relative to publicizing the support received;
   9. Documents demonstrating compliance with the legal regime governing public contracts, if applicable;
   10. Documentation relative to audits of the project.
5. The technical-financial file must be kept up-to-date; delays of greater than 60 days shall not be admissible.

6. After conclusion of the project, the respective dossier shall be kept on file:

   1. for at least 10 years counting from the date of the last funding decision awarded to the project under the terms of these Regulations;
   2. for projects co-funded by FEDER, in addition to the 10 years to be counted from the date of the last funding decision awarded to the project, the dossier must be kept until three years after Competitiveness Factors Thematic Operational Programme is closed.

Article 22
Information and publicity

Recipient organizations must comply with the rules regarding information and publicity, under the terms set forth by the FCT, in all work ensuing from the project and on all equipment acquired.

Article 23
Supplementary rules

All other aspects not specifically addressed in these Regulations governing access to funding for scientific research and technological development projects and in the Operational Regulations governing the Support System for the National Science and Technology System ( Regulamento de Execução do Sistema de Apoio a Entidades do Sistema Científico e Tecnológico Nacional), for co-funded projects, shall be subject to the provisions of the applicable European Community and national rules.

Article 24
Date of entry into force

These regulations apply to the calls to be opened from 2 August 2010.

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