Call “DOCTORATES 4 COVID-19” received 128 entries

The DOCTORATES 4 Covid-19 Call for the assignment of Studentships for doctoral research, promoted by FCT in collaboration with the Agency for Clinical Research and Biomedical Innovation (AICIB), received a total of 128 applications.

This Call , whose applications closed on May 14, was launched within the scope of the pandemic situation caused by the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, and is aimed at obtaining new knowledge that will allow the creation of skills to respond to this and future pandemics, and that will translate into efficient prevention measures, better health care and effective support for citizens.

By gender, candidates are divided into 65% women and 35% men.

Of the total number of applications, 87.5% correspond to Studentships in Portugal and 12.5% to Studentships to be developed in national and foreign host institutions, called Studentships mixed.

Foreign candidates represent 20% of all applications, coming from 7 countries. The countries with the most candidates Call are Brazil (15) and Italy (5).

This Call is integrated into a varied set of supports, Calls and other initiatives launched this year by the FCT as part of the fight against Covid-19: support for RESEARCH 4 COVID-19 ; o Call for R&D projects AI 4 COVID-19 : Data Science and Artificial Intelligence in Public Administration; support Gender Research 4 Covid-19 ; the Science 4 COVID-19 portal, the increased capacity of RCTS – Science, Technology and Society Network, which supports the internet connections of the teaching and research community; strengthening the capacity of services that ensure distance learning and teleworking in the academic and scientific community (Colibri, NAU, Educast, Videocast); and the creation of a COVID-19 page on the FCT website , which brings together all the information that is being issued, directly or indirectly related to this pandemic situation.

To the Studentships FCT Doctoral Research Grants are competitively awarded grants to support advanced training in all areas of knowledge for the purpose of obtaining the academic degree of Doctor. These Studentships allow doctoral students to dedicate themselves exclusively to their research, thus contributing to the scientific and technological development of the country.