Studentships research directly funded by FCT

Yes, all grant recipients are entitled to suspend the activities funded by Studentship due to parenthood, under the terms of the regime set forth in the Labor Code.

Yes, if you have concluded your contract of Studentship with FCT you may continue to receive your Studentship during the suspension of activities due to parenthood, as long as you do not request this payment from the Social Security or other welfare institution from which you benefit.

Activities funded by Studentship can be suspended for 120 or 150 consecutive days.

If you choose the 120-day period the monthly maintenance allowance will be kept at 100%, if you choose the 150-day period the amount you receive will be equivalent to 80% of the Monthly Maintenance Allowance.

Yes, fathers can choose to share the initial parental leave, where each parent takes exclusively, but not at the same time, one period of 30 consecutive days or two periods of 15 consecutive days, after the mother's obligatory six weeks. In this case, the leave period of 120 or 150 days, depending on the option, and the related support are increased by 30 days.

Thus, the 120-day leave will last 150 days, receiving 100% of the Monthly Maintenance Allowance, while the initial 150-day parental leave will last 180 days, receiving the equivalent of 83% of the Monthly Maintenance Allowance.

In the event that the father takes at least one period of 60 consecutive days, or two periods of 30 consecutive days out of the total of 180 of the initial parental leave, in addition to the father's exclusive parental leave, the amount to be received is equivalent to 90% of the Monthly Maintenance Allowance.

You must send your request by email to bolsas@fct.pt, indicating the period and conditions under which you wish to take initial parental leave and attaching the following documents:

a) Copy of the official document proving the birth of your child (birth certificate, photocopy of the civil identification document or statement from the doctor at the establishment or health service proving the date of birth);

b) Statement issued by Social Security proving that you are not receiving the initial parental allowance from the same;

c) Declaration under oath that he has not applied, nor will apply, to Social Security or any other entity for support/subsidy applicable in this condition.

If you choose to take shared initial parental leave add on:

d) Joint sharing declaration, duly signed by both parents and stating the periods in which each parent will benefit from said leave;

e) Statement issued by the other parent's employer or by the social protection system proving the period that he/she will take shared initial parental leave.

Under the father's exclusive parental leave, he may suspend activities funded by Studentship for the following periods:

• 28 days of compulsory leave, consecutive or interpolated, of at least 7 days, of which 7 must be taken consecutively immediately after the birth and the remaining 21 within 42 days of the birth;
• 7 days of optional leave, consecutive or interpolated, provided that they are taken at the same time as the mother's initial parental leave.

During the suspension of activities due to the father's exclusive initial parental leave, the monthly maintenance allowance payment is maintained in full.

You must send your request by email to bolsas@fct.pt, indicating the period in which you will suspend the activities funded by Studentship due to the father's exclusive initial parental leave, attaching also the following documents:

a) Copy of the official document proving the birth of your child (birth certificate or photocopy of the civil ID document);

b) Statement issued by Social Security proving that he is not receiving the father's exclusive initial parental allowance;

c) Declaration under oath that he has not applied, nor will apply, to Social Security or any other entity for support/subsidy applicable in this condition.

Yes. You are entitled to suspend the activities funded by Studentship for the time recommended by your doctor, and you will continue to pay 100% of the monthly maintenance allowance of Studentship.

The days taken off for clinical risk do not count nor are they discounted from the days of initial parental leave to which you are entitled.

You must send your request by email to bolsas@fct.pt, attaching the following documents:

a) Medical certification indicating the period of impediment for the development of the research work due to clinical risk in pregnancy;

b) Statement issued by Social Security proving that you are not receiving clinical risk subsidy from the same;

c) Declaration under oath that he has not applied, nor will apply, to Social Security or any other entity for support/subsidy applicable in this condition.