Information on the Calendar of Visits by Evaluation Panels to R&D Units

The evaluation of R&D Units will be completed by the end of June, as stated in the FCT Calendar for 2019. According to the evaluators' availability, 135 units from 13 evaluation panels were visited from September to December 2018, and the evaluators' visits to the remaining 213 units in 20 panels are ongoing. 

The R&D units will be notified in advance of the specific dates and details regarding the organization of the visits, as was done with the units that have already been visited. 

The panorama of visits in 2019 will be as follows:

From March 1st to 15th: Psychology (ongoing).

From March 15 to April 14: Architecture and Urbanism; Materials Science and Engineering and Nanotechnology; Chemical and Biological Engineering and Environmentally Sustainable Chemistry.

From April 15 to May 14: Communication Sciences; Marine Sciences and Technologies; Economics; Philosophy; Public Health, Nursing, Health and Sports Technologies, Rehabilitation and Well-being.

From May 15 to June 14: Education Sciences; Literary Studies; Mediterranean Studies: Tourism, Hospitality and Hotels; History and Archaeology; Clinical and Translational Research; Mathematics; Sociology, Anthropology, Demography and Geography. 

From June 1 to 30: Arts and Design, Artistic and Musical Development; Language Sciences; Physics; Management.

The evaluation process for R&D Units involves 225 international evaluators for 348 applications from R&D Units that include 19,273 PhD researchers.