FCT announces Call for PhD Research Studentships 2020

The Notice of the Call Call the FCTCall for PhD Research Studentships 2020 is now available. This year the number of Studentships to be awarded is 1,350 and the deadline for applications is March 2-31, until 5 p.m. (Lisbon time).

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

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

The research activities to be carried out by the candidates within the scope of the Studentships to be awarded in this Call can be developed in any environment for the production and dissemination of knowledge, whether national or international. Host institutions can be higher education institutions, R&D units, Associate Laboratories, Collaborative Laboratories, Technology Interface Centres, 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.