Call for the assignment of the Status of Associate Laboratory

The FCT will open applications for the submission of proposals for the award of the status of Associate Laboratory for the period 2021-2030, as well as for any additional financing. This Call provides for the attribution of the status of Associate Laboratory up to a maximum of 30 applications. Applications for renewal of the Associate Laboratories existing or creating new ones Associate Laboratories .

The assignment of status and funding to Associate Laboratories aims to encourage the aggregation and organization of human and material resources with the quality and dimension necessary to respond to the specific objectives of national scientific and technological policy in R&D institutions or consortia of R&D institutions.

The application process will be permanently open, with a single annual evaluation period for submitted applications. For the year 2020, applications submitted from September 28, 2020 until 5:00 pm, Lisbon time, on October 29, 2020 will be evaluated.

All information about the process is available on this page , as well as the Notice of the Call .