FCT announces the Call of Studentships PhD Research Program 2021

THE Notice of the Call The FCT Call for the award of Doctoral Research Studentships 2021 is now available. This year the number of Studentships to be awarded is 1450 and the application period will be between March 1st and 5pm (Lisbon time) on March 31st, 2021.

All application, evaluation, disclosure of results, complaints and/or appeals and contracting procedures take place on the myFCT electronic platform.

To the Studentships Doctoral Research Programs are intended for candidates enrolled in a cycle of studies leading to the academic degree of doctor, or candidates who meet the necessary conditions to enroll, and who intend to develop research activities leading to the attainment of this degree in all areas of knowledge.

Research activities may be carried out in any environment of production and dissemination of knowledge, national or international, including higher education institutions, R&D units, Associate Laboratories , Collaborative Laboratories, Technological Interface Centers, State Laboratories and other public research institutions, hospitals and health care units, other entities integrated into the Public Administration where R&D activities are developed, as well as private non-profit institutions whose main objective is R&D activities.

Likewise, companies, namely those whose activity has been recognized as being of scientific interest or consortia in which any of the entities referred to in the previous paragraph participate, will also be considered as host institutions.

It should be noted that research activities can be carried out in collaboration with different host institutions, public and private, including companies and public administration, promoting institutional collaboration as well as transdisciplinarity and interdisciplinarity.