Information Systems

Registration can be done on the myFCT portal.

If you want to change the email address that appears in your registration, you must do so on the "Account Data" page on the CIÊNCIA ID platform.

The personal data updated in CIÊNCIA ID will then be synchronized the next time you log into the FCT information systems with CIÊNCIA ID authentication.

With the entry into operation of authentication with CIÊNCIA ID in the FCT information systems, from October 1, 2019, the change of personal data (name, gender, date of birth, nationality, email and ID document) is now performed on the CIÊNCIA ID platform on the page "Personal Data".

The personal data updated in CIÊNCIA ID will then be synchronized the next time you log into the FCT information systems with CIÊNCIA ID authentication.

No. If you already have a user account in FCT systems, but do not yet have a CIÊNCIA ID, get a CIÊNCIA ID and associate it to the user account you already have.

It is not allowed to have more than one user account in the FCT systems. For this reason, you can only associate your CIÊNCIA ID to a single account.

In order to have access to the Science and Technology Portal (PCT) functionalities, they must have been delegated to you by the members of your institution that belong to the PCT Administrators Group. You should contact one of these administrators to delegate you access to the functionality you need.

It is a means of individual and permanent identification and authentication for citizens who engage in scientific activity. You can obtain your identifier and more information on the CIÊNCIA ID website.

With CIÊNCIA ID there is now a single account, with official identification, which allows authentication in various services in the field of science.

Any citizen engaged in scientific activity, researchers, professors and scientific staff (e.g. science managers), Portuguese or foreign, involved in the Portuguese scientific system.

You can create your SCIENCE ID account in one of the following ways:

• Create account "Using your e-mail" - Manual Filling: This option allows the user to create his account by manually filling in his personal data. It is the user's responsibility to correctly fill in these data.
• Create Account "Using the Citizen Card or Mobile Digital Key": This option requires authentication with the Citizen Card or Mobile Digital Key. The main advantage is the automatic filling of data related to the user's identification document.

See how to register in the CIÊNCIA ID Tutorial.

Note that for a complete registration and to fully enjoy the functionalities of the system, you should adopt the account creation using the Mobile Digital Key or the Citizen Card.

You can access the CIÊNCIA ID website and perform one of the following actions:

• Recover the password; or
• Log in with Citizen Card or Mobile Digital Key authentication and change your password in the CIÊNCIA ID profile management.

No. The CIÊNCIA ID is a unique personal identifier, with official character, for those who develop scientific activity in Portugal.