Permanent updating of research teams in R&D units (2021)

Yes. If you have a contract with another type of institution in Portugal, whether public or private, you can be part of an R&D unit team as an integrated researcher or collaborator. If you don't have a professional relationship or contract with an institution in Portugal, you can only join a team as a collaborator.

Yes, you can remain a researcher at the R&D unit. If you dedicate at least 20% of your normal working time to research activities in the R&D unit, you can be an integrated researcher.

Yes, if the staff member has a Studentship or an employment contract with one of the management institutions receiving FCT funding for the R&D unit, if the respective expenditure meets the eligibility conditions for funding and if there is budget availability under the human resources heading.

The question "Do you have a professional relationship/contract?" must be answered "Yes", then the question "Is the contract funded?" must be answered "No", since FCT funding is not granted within the scope of the R&D unit, but is granted directly by the FCT to the grant holder. The "linking/contracting institution" to be selected should be the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P..

If you do not have a professional relationship/contract with a Portuguese institution, you must choose "No" to the question "Do you have a professional relationship/contract?" and then select "Researcher at a foreign institution".

The list provided corresponds to institutions registered with the FCT with a NIPC. To register an institution with a NIPC in the FCT's information systems, please do the following:

1. Enter the Science and Technology Portal and log in with a user previously registered in the FCT systems,
2. Choose the Register of Institutions option,
3. Fill in the institution's details and click on SAVE to submit the data.

The FCT will validate the data and the institution will be available on the platform.

"Funded contract" means Studentship contracts and employment contracts that are fully or partially allocated to the 2020-2023 multiannual funding (base and programmatic) granted by FCT to the R&D unit or employment contracts that are fully or partially allocated to the Associate Laboratory funding. Other contracts also funded by FCT under the Scientific Employment Program, research or infrastructure projects and Studentship contracts directly funded by FCT should not be marked as "Funded contract".

The information in question was provided by the DGEEC within the scope of the Observatory of Scientific and Teaching Employment (OECD), and cannot be changed directly on this platform, with the exception of the "End date of employment relationship/contract" field, when the end date of the employment relationship or contract is extended. Updates/corrections made within the scope of the OECD are automatically transferred to the FCT platform even if the information has been submitted and the element is in "Confirmed" status.