FCT publishes Notice of the Call the Evaluation of R&D Units 2023-2024

As part of the multi-year funding program for R&D units, FCT published today, December 28, 2023, the Notice of the Call of the 2023-2024 evaluation process. R&D units must register on the FCT Science and Technology Portal between January 8 and January 17, 2024, followed by the registration of teams between January 18 and February 19, 2024. with the application submission period running from February 20 to March 25, 2024, until 5 p.m. (Lisbon time). A document with guidelines for this new Call is available, and the Application and Evaluation Guides will be made available as soon as possible on Call webpage.

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.