Evaluation of R&D units 2022/2023

FCT is awaiting guidelines from the Ministry of Science and Technology for the publication of Notice of the Call for applications for evaluation under the 2022/2023 multiannual funding program for R&D units. The Call page is already accessible on the website, with the regulations for the evaluation and multiannual funding of R&D units, and will be updated with more information as it becomes available.

R&D Units are evaluated periodically, every 4 years, by panels of international evaluators, who assign a rating and funding for the following multi-year period.

Currently, there are 312 R&D Units with approved funding for the 2020-2023 period, resulting from the latest evaluation of R&D Units 2017/2018.

These FCT-funded R&D units are spread across different areas of knowledge and throughout Portugal. They can be entities integrated into different universities or polytechnics, or form partnerships between universities, or even have an independent status and operate autonomously. A total of around 19,000 PhD researchers carry out research in these units. You can consult the funded R&D units in the Atlas of R&D Units published by the FCT.