Final Results of the 2nd edition of the CEEC Individual

The FCT announced the final results of the 2nd edition of the CEEC Individual after a preliminary hearing. The process of Call was concluded with the granting of a total of 308 employment contracts to PhD researchers. This means that 8 more contracts will be signed than were planned at the launch of the Call .

At the end of November, the FCT presented the results of the evaluation of the applications and, in May 2020, decided to start signing the first 300 employment contracts with the researchers proposed for funding, before concluding the process of analyzing the comments submitted in the preliminary hearing, with the commitment to add the contracts that are selected after evaluating the preliminary hearings. In this way, researchers were able to start their contracts and work plans at the host institutions, without having to wait for the results after the preliminary hearing. As a result of the preliminary hearing, 8 new contracts were selected for funding, which the FCT will now send to the contracting institutions.

These 308 contracts are distributed across four contractual categories: Call : 162 Junior Researcher contracts, 108 Assistant Researcher contracts, 37 Principal Researcher contracts and 1 Coordinating Researcher contract. And they are distributed across six major scientific areas: 99 contracts in Natural Sciences, 58 in Engineering and Technology, 51 in Humanities and Arts, 46 in Social Sciences, 34 in Medical and Health Sciences and 20 in Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences.

Of the 308 researchers selected, 51% are women. The results indicate that Portugal is more attractive on the international scene, with researchers of foreign nationality representing 31% of the total candidates selected for contracts, compared to 25% in Call previous. The foreign countries most represented by the selected researchers are Spain (23 researchers), Italy (18), France (10) and Germany (9).

The CEEC Individual is one of the financing instruments for hiring researchers defined by the Scientific Employment Regulation, launched in 2017 by the FCT, after the publication of Decree-Law No. 57/2016.