Results of the Call Encourage Individual Scientific Employment

The results of the 1st Call Stimulate Scientific Employment - Individual(CEEC Individual) were released today. After a prior hearing, 515 PhD researcher employment contracts were approved in all scientific areas and in the four contractual categories. The FCT will now send the program contracts to the institutions to sign the funding agreement.

Funding has been provided for 280 Junior Researcher contracts, 163 Assistant Researcher contracts, 68 Principal Researcher contracts and 4 Coordinating Researcher contracts. Of the 515 researchers now selected, 53% are women. The results of the Call also reveal the high internationalization of Portuguese science, since 100 researchers are foreigners - almost 20% of those who will be funded. 

The candidates were selected through an evaluation and ranking process carried out by 25 international panels and coordinated by José Carlos Marques dos Santos. The overall success rate was 12.5%: 12% of junior researcher candidates, 12.8% of assistant researcher candidates, 13.2% of principal researcher candidates and 57.1% of coordinating researcher candidates were selected for funding. 173 contracts were awarded in Natural Sciences, 99 in Engineering and Technology, 72 in Humanities and Arts, 72 in Social Sciences, 64 in Medical and Health Sciences and 35 in Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences.

The CEEC Individual is one of the funding instruments for hiring researchers defined by the Scientific Employment Regulation, launched in 2017 by the FCT following the publication of Decree-Law no. 57/2016. The 2nd edition of the Call (2018) has applications open until February 20th. Applications will then be complemented by the phase of matching institutions with candidates.

Institutions are also currently hiring researchers under the CEEC Institutional 2018, under which 400 places have been allocated. In both Calls, the contract is signed between the host institution and the doctoral researcher, and funded by the FCT.