FCT publishes Notice of the Call for the 6th edition of CEEC Individual

The Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) has published the Notice of the Call for the 6th edition of the Call Encourage Individual Scientific Employment (CEEC Individual), for which applications will run from April 4, 2023 until 5:00 p.m. (Lisbon time) on May 8, 2023. This Call provides for the hiring of 400 more PhD researchers under the Scientific Employment Regulation (REC).

CEEC Individual is an annual Call that directly supports the hiring of doctoral researchers in all scientific areas who wish to carry out their scientific research or technological development activities in Portugal, at the institutions that make up the National Science and Technology System (SNCT).

CEEC Individual contracts last up to 6 years and are awarded, in this edition, according to three categories: Junior researcher, Assistant researcher and Principal researcher.

The Individual CEEC and the Institutional CEEC are funding instruments for hiring researchers created by the FCT in 2017, following the publication of Decree-Law No. 57/2016 and with the aim of stimulating scientific and technological employment in all areas of knowledge.

The Stimulus to Scientific Employment - FCT program, through the CEEC Individual and CEEC Institutional editions, has so far opened up a total of 3,120 vacancies for contracts with doctoral researchers.