MIT Portugal Program selects 8 projects for funding

FCT announced the result of the Call for Exploratory Research Projects within the scope of the MIT Portugal Program, referring to 2019, in which 33 applications were evaluated and 8 were recommended for funding. The total investment for carrying out these projects is R$397,023.15, with the maximum financing limit for each project being R$50,000.

This Call aims to develop research activities between Portuguese universities and MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), with a view to creating intelligent solutions in the various areas proposed to Call , in which projects are oriented towards scientific research in a holistic approach through integrated and multidisciplinary projects with a vision of scale evolution. The projects selected in this edition are distributed across the following areas: Earth Systems: from the Oceans to Space – 3 projects; Digital Transformation in Industry – 3 projects; and Sustainable Cities – 2 projects.

This Call was carried out within the scope of the partnership agreement between FCT and MIT Portugal, integrated into the goPORTUGAL program – Global Partnerships in Science and Technology, promoted by FCT, and whose mission and objectives are to value the process of internationalization of scientific and technological research in Portugal, developing the creation of scientific and qualified employment and encouraging the creation and growth of new science and technology-based companies. The goPORTUGAL program integrates partnerships with other leading foreign research institutions, such as Carnegie Mellon, UTAustin, Harvard Medical School, Imperial College London or Fraunhofer.