UTAustin Program

Within the scope of the UTAustin – Portugal Program , the FCT announced the result of the Call for Exploratory Research Projects, which recommends 8 projects for funding from the 54 applications received. The total investment for carrying out these projects is R$390,370.22, with the maximum financing limit for each project being R$50,000.

This Call aims to develop research activities between Portuguese universities and the University of Texas at Austin (UTAustin) in which exploratory projects with expansion enhance solutions to real-world problems. The projects selected in this edition will allow exploring the areas of Advanced Computing; Medical Physics for Emerging Cancer Therapies; Nanomaterials for New Markets and Space-Earth Interactions.

This Call was carried out under the partnership agreement between FCT and the University of Texas at Austin, integrated in 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, Harvard Medical School, Imperial College London or Fraunhofer.