Provisional Results of the Exploratory Projects of the national programs at CMU, MIT and UT Austin

FCT has released the provisional results of the 2024 Calls Exploratory Projects from the national programs of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin). A total of 26 projects were approved for funding and will receive between 45 and 50 thousand euros per project, for a total investment of 1,192,847.09 euros from the FCT budget.

These Calls were carried out as part of FCT's international partnerships with the three US universities and the results are published on their respective websites: CMU-Portugal Program, MIT-Portugal Program and UT Austin-Portugal Program.

These international partnerships promote annual Calls for exploratory projects lasting 12 months, with the aim of developing disruptive, high-risk scientific projects, but with a high potential impact on the development and valorization of the scientific results obtained.

The CMU-Portugal Program Call will primarily fund projects in the area of Information Technology. The MIT-Portugal Program projects cover areas such as Climate Science, Earth Systems, Oceans to Near Space, Digital Transformation in Industry and Sustainable Cities. In turn, the UT Austin-Portugal Program Call covers the areas of Advanced Computing, Nano-materials and Space-Earth Interactions.

These Calls are part of FCT's support for the internationalization of the national scientific and technological community, promoting and ensuring Portugal's representation in international forums, as well as funding innovative projects with international partnerships and the mobility of highly qualified human resources.