Results of Call IC&DT Call Projects in all scientific domains

Today, FCT announced the results of Call IC&DTCall in all scientific fields to all applicants. A total of 551 projects were selected for funding, representing an investment of €74.9 million supported by FCT's national budget. The list of projects recommended for funding and a summary of Call results Call available here.

This Call, with a budget allocation of €75 million, supports two types of projects:

• Scientific research and technological development (IC&DT) projects, lasting 36 months and with maximum funding per project of €250,000, with a total budget of €60 million;
• Exploratory research projects (PeX), lasting 18 months and with maximum funding per project of €50,000, with a total budget of €15 million.

The 246 IC&DT projects recommended for funding are distributed across the following scientific fields: Medical and Health Sciences – 17.9%, Engineering Sciences and Technologies – 24.8%, Natural Sciences – 18.3%, Social Sciences – 11.8%, Exact Sciences – 11.8%, Agricultural Sciences – 8.9%, and Humanities – 6.5%.

The 305 PeX projects recommended for funding are distributed across the following scientific fields: Medical and Health Sciences – 25.9%, Engineering Sciences and Technologies – 14.1%, Natural Sciences – 18.7%, Social Sciences – 13.1%, Exact Sciences – 13.8%, Agricultural Sciences – 6.2%, and Humanities – 8.2%.

The principal investigators leading the funded projects are mostly women, representing 55.2% of the total, and 12.2% are foreign researchers from 22 countries, working in research centers in Portugal and leading 67 of the selected projects.

Applications were accepted from January 28 to March 10 of this year. A total of 4,882 applications were submitted, of which 4,870 were accepted for evaluation, in accordance with the terms of Call Notice of the Call Call After evaluation, only 3,371 applications (69.2% of those evaluated) achieved the minimum score required to be eligible for funding. The success rate of Call a percentage of the total number of applications eligible for funding was 8.7% for IC&DT projects and 56.7% for exploratory projects.

The applications were evaluated by 33 evaluation panels in different scientific areas, with 577 foreign external evaluators from 34 countries participating in the evaluation, 50.6% of whom were women. Each proposal was evaluated and ranked according to the scientific merit and innovative nature of the project, the scientific merit of the research team, the feasibility of the work program, and the contribution to the accumulation of knowledge and skills. In each panel, the proposals were ranked according to their classification, and the selection was made so that the success rate was similar across all evaluation panels in terms of the volume of eligible funding requested.

The evaluation process lasted 4.7 months between the deadline for submitting applications and the announcement of provisional results. These 551 new projects are in addition to the 2,274 IC&DT projects currently being implemented and funded by FCT.

The Call IC&DT projects in all scientific areas is annual and is part of Calls FCT's major Calls , whose schedule is set until 2022 and published on the website.