Fellowships and Grants

Call for Applications to Individual Post-Doctoral Grants 2009

In accordance with Regulamento de Formação Avançada e Qualificação de Recursos Humanos, and taking into account the applicability of the Estatuto do Bolseiro de Investigação Científica, approved by Law n. 40/2004 of August 18, the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) opens a call for the funding of individual post-doctoral grants (BPD). These grants are meant for doctoral degree holders, preferably having been awarded the degree in the last 5 years, for the performance of advanced research work in Portuguese or foreign research institutions of known good standing. Post-doctoral grnts in a foreign country will only be awarded in excepcional conditions, requiring proof in an unambiguous way that they serve national strategic interests.

Doctoral and Post Doctorla Grants 1994/2007

Funding

The grants will be funded by the Programa Operacional Potencial Humano of QREN Portugal 2007-2013 and funds from the MCTES State Budget.

Period of the Call

The Call is open from June 15^th to 5pm, Lisbon time, on September 1^st and will only have one evaluation cycle.

Applications

Individual applications must be submitted electronically, using the web application available at:

http://concursos.fct.pt/bolsas/

No other means of aplication will be accepted. All application supporting documents must be digitized and submitted through the web application, in accordance with Article 19 of the Regulations. Whenever possible, the Diploma Supplement, relative to each program of study stated as completed, must be included (see Portaria n. 30/2008 of January 10).

BPD candidates who have not been awarded the Doctoral degree must pay particular attention to item 6 of Article 19 of the Regulations.

Approved grants may start not before January 1^st 2010.

Evaluation

Only applications sealed by the candidates will be considered for evaluation. The evaluation will take into account the merits of the candidate, work plan and hosting conditions. The evaluation panel for each main scientific domain will receive an evaluation guide, to be used to evaluate the corresponding applications, weight the available data and produce an ordered list of candidates.