FCT announces results of the 2nd Edition of the Institutional CEEC

The FCT announced today the provisional results of the 2nd Edition of Call Institutional Scientific Employment Stimulus (CEEC Institucional).  Sixty of the 87 applications submitted were approved for funding, and 305 doctoral contract positions were awarded for a period of six years, corresponding to a total financial investment of €97.7 million. 

Applications were evaluated by an international evaluation panel, which assigned a merit rating and distributed the available places for each application based on the merit rating and institutional characteristics represented by the total number of PhDs and the number of Calls be opened by institutions over the next five years for career positions. 

The distribution of positions to be funded by type and level of contract was as follows: 183 fixed-term research contracts; 92 contracts for scientific research careers and 30 contracts for university and polytechnic teaching careers. 

Following the announcement of provisional results, the preliminary hearing period begins. 

The Institutional CEEC is one of the instruments for financing the hiring of researchers defined by the Scientific Employment Regulation launched in 2017 by the FCT, following the publication of Decree-Law No. 57/2016. In the first edition of the Institutional CEEC, 412 contractual positions were awarded.

The Institutional Call is held twice a year and is part of the FCT's major Calls , whose schedule is set until 2022 and published here. 

As part of its policy to encourage the hiring of PhD graduates and strengthen the contribution of R&D to public science policies, FCT is preparing a Call stimulate additional specific scientific employment, aimed exclusively at Associate Laboratories, to be launched later in 2021.