CEEC Institutional: final results

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The final results of the Call Encourage Scientific Employment - Institutional(CEEC Institutional) have been released. The following were approved 58 scientific employment planswere approved, with a total of 400 contracts for PhD researchers and career enhancers at universities, polytechnics and other institutions.

Once the program contracts have been signed between the FCT and the selected institutions, they must start implementing the approved plan within 6 months, during which time the hiring of researchers will begin. Calls for the positions offered will be opened directly by the institutions, with financial support from the FCT.

The approved plans include 221 contracts within the scope of Research careers, financed by FCT up to 100%, and Academic careers, co-financed by FCT up to 50%, and employment contracts for researchers in various categories, fully financed by FCT, resulting in the following distribution of new contracts:

• Junior researchers: 16%
• Auxiliary researchers: 20%
• Principal investigators: 8%
• Coordinating researchers: 1%
• Career researchers: 13%
• Career teachers: 42% 

The tender procedure took place within the framework of the Program to Encourage Scientific Employment. The aim of the Institutional CEEC is to highlight practices to promote scientific employment and future strategies developed by institutions or networks of institutions.