Evaluation of R&D Units 2023-2024

As part of the multi-year funding program for R&D units, on December 28, 2023, the FCT published the Notice of the Call of the 2023-2024 evaluation process. The registration of R&D Units took place on the Science and Technology Portal between January 8 and January 17, 2024, followed by the registration of teams between January 18 and March 6, 2024. The application submission period will run from March 7 to April 17, 2024, until 5 p.m. (Lisbon time). A document with guidelines for this new Call is available, and the Application and Evaluation Guides are also available on Call website.

R&D units are periodically evaluated by panels of international evaluators, who assign a rating and funding for the following multi-year period. The evaluation will focus on the scientific and technological activities carried out by the R&D units between January 1, 2018, and December 31, 2023, and on the objectives, strategy, activity plan, and organization for the period 2025-2029.

The 312 R&D Units funded by FCT are spread across various areas of knowledge and throughout the country. R&D Units may be entities integrated into different universities or polytechnics, partnerships between universities, or independent entities operating autonomously. The R&D units funded can be consulted in the Atlas of R&D Units published by FCT.

It should be noted that the FCT Regulation on the Evaluation and Multi-Year Funding of Research and Development Units, Regulation No. 404/2022, of April 27, 2022, was recently amended and republished by Regulation No. 1251-A/2023 of November 21, 2023.