5th Edition of CEEC Individual received 2910 registrations

The 5th Edition Call Applications for the Promotion of Individual Scientific Employment – CEEC Individual ended on March 3rd and received a total of 2910 applications. THE Call promoted by FCT foresees the granting of 400 employment contracts to PhD researchers in all scientific areas. In the 4 editions held, CEEC Individual has already granted a total of 1536 contracts to PhD researchers.
In this 5th edition, 18.8% of the 2910 applications received are from the area of Natural Sciences, followed by the area of Engineering and Technologies (17.7%), the area of Humanities (17.6%) and the area of Social Sciences (14.4%).

Women represent 53.5% of the total number of applications and the total number of candidates is distributed as follows across the 4 available contractual categories: Junior Researcher – 1494 candidates, Assistant Researcher – 1111 candidates, Principal Researcher – 301 candidates; and Coordinating Researcher – 4 candidates. The most representative foreign candidates come from Brazil (200 candidates), Italy (141), Spain (130) and India (53).

After receiving these 2910 applications, the phase of associating host institutions followed, which ended on March 29, and the phase of verifying the admissibility of applications is currently underway.

The CEEC Individual is one of the financing instruments of the Scientific Employment Stimulus Program defined by the Scientific Employment Regulation published in 2017 by the FCT, following the publication of Decree-Law No. 57/2016. The next edition will be released by the end of this year, as provided for in Decree-Law No. 60/2018 and published in the FCT Calls calendar for 2021-2023.