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Scientific Employment

Scientific employment Stimulus is an incentive for the hiring of researchers and the development of scientific employment plans and scientific careers by public or private institutions.

This financial support strengthens the national scientific and technological system and promotes employment opportunities for doctors, facilitating the formalisation of scientific employment and contributing to greater national attractiveness for highly qualified young people. They also contribute to the rejuvenation of scientific institutions, attracting more and better scientists and facilitating a framework that stimulates the mobility of researchers.

  • 2552

    running contracts

  • 122 M€

    investment in 2021

  • 21%

    of the total FCT investment