Provisional Results of Call Exploratory Projects of the CMU Portugal Program

The provisional results ofCall Exploratory Projects under the CMU Portugal Program are now known, with six projects recommended for funding from a total of 36 eligible applications. The funding allocated to each project ranges from €47,000 to €70,000, resulting in a total investment of €354,493.04 from the FCT budget.

The Call to support teams of researchers from SCTN entities, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), and industry partners in initiating potential research activities of high impact and strategic relevance to the CMU Portugal Program. The funded projects will develop research in areas as diverse as: cognitive-behavioral intervention to detect, treat, and monitor anxiety and depression in breast cancer survivors; accelerated, adaptive, and large-scale distributed network functions; automatic evaluation of visualizations; value systems in digital technologies for health; integrated photonic neural probes for neuromorphic computing; millimeter-sized implant stimulators.

The CMU Portugal Program is part of a network of international cooperation programs between Portugal and institutions in various countries under the goPORTUGAL – Global Partnerships in Science and Technology initiative, promoted by FCT.