Results of Call for Proposals to Call Individual Scientific Employment
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The results of Call 1st Call Scientific Employment Stimulus – Individual (CEEC Individual) were announced today. Following a preliminary hearing, 515 employment contracts for PhD researchers 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 financing agreement.
A total of 280 Junior Researcher contracts, 163 Assistant Researcher contracts, 68 Principal Researcher contracts, and 4 Coordinating Researcher contracts are being funded. Of the 515 researchers now selected, 53% are women. The results of Call also Call the high level of internationalization of Portuguese science, since 100 researchers are foreigners—almost 20% of those who will be funded.
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 applicants, 12.8% of assistant researcher applicants, 13.2% of principal researcher applicants, and 57.1% of coordinating researcher applicants were selected for funding. A total of 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 instruments for financing the hiring of researchers defined by the Scientific Employment Regulation, launched in 2017 by the FCT following the publication of Decree-Law No. 57/2016. The second edition of Call 2018) is open for applications until February 20. Applications will then be complemented by the phase of associating institutions with candidates.
At this moment, institutions are also hiring researchers under the Institutional CEEC 2018 program, which has allocated 400 positions. In both Calls, the contract is signed between the host institution and the PhD researcher and is funded by FCT.