FCT announces Call for PhD Research Studentships 2021

The Notice of the Call Call the FCTCall for PhD Research Studentships 2021 is now available. This year the number of Studentships to be awarded is 1450 and the deadline for applications will be between March 1st and 5pm (Lisbon time) on March 31st, 2021.

All the application, evaluation, results disclosure, complaint and/or appeal and contracting procedures take place on the myFCT electronic platform.

The Doctoral Research Studentships are aimed at candidates enrolled in a study cycle leading to a doctoral degree, or candidates who meet the necessary conditions to enroll, and who wish to carry out research activities leading to a doctoral degree in all areas of knowledge.

Research activities can be carried out in any national or international knowledge production and dissemination environment, including 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, as well as private non-profit institutions whose main purpose is R&D activities.

Likewise, companies 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, both public and private, including companies and public administration, promoting institutional collaboration as well as transdisciplinarity and interdisciplinarity.