Special support for R&D projects "Portugal and the Holocaust: research and memory"

FCT has opened applications for special support for R&D projects under the theme "Portugal and the Holocaust: research and memory", which aims to fund projects of an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary nature within the scope of the Never Forget Project - National Program around the Memory of the Holocaust. Applications can be submitted until January 15, 2021.

Portugal became a member of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance in December 2019 and, in line with the organization's mission, has made a greater commitment to promoting education, remembrance and research on the subject. In this context, Holocaust Remembrance is the subject of Council of Ministers Resolution no. 51/2020, of June 25, and its program includes a set of initiatives to strengthen knowledge, preserve memory and disseminate information.

With the Holocaust and its conceptual framework as a reference, the special support for R&D projects "Portugal and the Holocaust: research and memory" aims to promote scientific research, developing new knowledge in various areas from a multidisciplinary perspective, with contributions from history, philosophy, human rights, religious studies, political science, law, sociology, literature, the arts, in short, with developments in the social sciences and humanities, reinforcing their presence on the national scientific agenda.

The projects to be developed must necessarily produce results to be disseminated and communicated, including one or more of the following: Databases with information collection; Reports and working documents in open access; Formal scientific publication submitted; Educational resources: audiovisual, animated cinema, music, theater, others; Information material to communicate the results produced; Public presentation of results, if necessary using digital formats; Provision of Documentary Description Tools (inventories, catalogs).

This support has been allocated a budget of 200,000 euros and the selected projects will be funded with a maximum limit of 40,000 euros per project, for a maximum duration of 12 months. Approved projects will be financed by national funds through the FCT budget.

More information on the page: "Portugal and the Holocaust: research and memory".