Results of the Call Stimulating Individual Scientific Employment

The results of the 1st were released today Call for the Promotion of Scientific Employment – Individual ( CEEC Individual ). After 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.

280 contracts are financed in the Junior Researcher category, 163 in the Auxiliary Researcher category, 68 in the Principal Researcher category and 4 in the Coordinating Researcher category. Of the 515 researchers now selected, 53% are women. The results of the Call They also reveal the high internationalization of Portuguese science, since 100 researchers are foreign – almost 20% of those who will be financed. 

The candidates were selected through an evaluation and classification 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. 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 financing instruments for the recruitment of 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 Call (2018) is accepting applications until February 20th. Registrations will then be completed by the phase of association of institutions with candidates.

At the moment, researchers are also being hired at institutions in the 2018 Institutional CEEC , in which 400 positions were granted. In both Calls , the contract is signed between the host institution and the PhD researcher, and financed by the FCT.