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 Call process Call concluded with a total of 308 employment contracts awarded to PhD researchers. This means that 8 more contracts will be signed than were planned when the Call was launched.

At the end of November, FCT presented the results of the evaluation of applications and, in May 2020, decided to begin signing the first 300 employment contracts with the researchers proposed for funding, before the process of analyzing the comments submitted at the preliminary hearing had been completed, with a commitment to add any contracts that may be selected after evaluation of the preliminary hearings. This allowed researchers to start their contracts and work plans at their host institutions without having to wait for the results after the preliminary hearing. As a result of the preliminary hearing, eight new contracts were selected for funding, which FCT will now send to the contracting institutions.

These 308 contracts are distributed across four contractual categories of Call: 162 Junior Researcher contracts, 108 Assistant Researcher contracts, 37 Principal Researcher contracts, and 1 Coordinating Researcher contract. 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 foreign researchers representing 31% of the total number of candidates selected for contracts, compared to 25% in 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 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.