FCT announces the Call Studentships for Doctorates 2020

The Notice of the Call Call the Award of Studentships Doctorates 2020 is now available. This year, 1,350 Studentships awarded, and the application period will run from March 2 to March 31, until 5 p.m. (Lisbon time).

This year, applications are submitted via the myFCT portal, which is the new online system for managing the application, evaluation, and approval process for Studentships. Last year, FCT introduced the CIÊNCIAVITAE curriculum platform, a new feature that streamlined the process of organizing and submitting candidates' resumes.

Doctoral Studentships are competitively awarded grants to support the training of scientists in all areas of knowledge in obtaining a doctoral degree. They allow researchers to devote themselves exclusively to their research, thereby contributing to the scientific and technological development of the country. The FCT currently supports around 5,000 Studentships .

The research activities to be carried out by candidates under the Studentships be awarded in this Call be developed in any national or international environment for the production and dissemination of knowledge. Host institutions may be higher education institutions, R&D units, Associate Laboratories, Collaborative Laboratories, Technology Interface Centers, State Laboratories, and other public research institutions, hospitals, and healthcare units, other entities integrated into the Public Administration where R&D activities are carried out, private non-profit institutions whose main purpose is R&D activities, companies whose activity has been recognized as being of scientific interest, or consortia in which any of these entities participate.