FCT's President conducted Masterclass at the Instituto Superior de Agronomia

"The science and technology system in Portugal: how funding of researchers, institutions and projects impacted research and development" was the title of the Masterclass delivered by FCT President Helena Pereira, on June 30, in the Sala de Atos of the Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ISA) and online here.

This Masterclass was held in the scope of the curricular units of PhD Seminar on Forest Engineering and Seminars on scientific motivation. The president of FCT addressed the topic of the impact of science funding on researchers, institutions and projects.

Helena Pereira, who ends her term as FCT president this month, also showed how science funding in Portugal, through the FCT, has reached levels of operational excellence in comparison with similar institutions, both in the predictability of Calls, and in the quality of the evaluation processes and their duration until the presentation of the results, as well as in the administrative simplification and dematerialization of the processes.

Science in Portugal has increased significantly in the last 25 years, diversifying the areas of activity and the sectors that contribute to the creation of knowledge, and FCT funding has been crucial to the growth and improvement of all indicators of knowledge production and scientific qualification.

This year FCT celebrates 25 years of funding science in Portugal and marks the date with a cycle of events that extends throughout this year, in different cities and addressing issues of interest to the academic and scientific community. The complete program of the celebrations and the sessions that have already taken place can be found here.