Final Results of the 2nd edition of the CEEC Individual

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

At the end of November, 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 the process of analyzing the comments submitted at the prior hearing was completed, with the commitment to add the contracts that would be selected after evaluating the prior hearings. In this way, the researchers were able to start their contracts and work plans at the host institutions, without having to wait for the results after the prior hearing. As a result of the prior hearing, 8 new contracts were selected for funding, which FCT will now send to the contracting institutions.

These 308 contracts are distributed among the Call's four contract categories: 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 accounting for 31% of all candidates selected for contracts, compared to 25% in the previous Call 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 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.