Information on the Calendar of Visits of Evaluation Panels to R&D Units

The evaluation of the R&D Units will be completed by the end of June, as stated in the FCT Calendar for 2019. According to the availability of the evaluators, 135 Units from 13 evaluation panels were visited from September to December 2018, and the visits of the evaluators for the remaining 213 units in 20 panels are in progress. 

The R&D Units will be notified in advance of the concrete dates and details concerning the organization of the visits, as was done with the Units that have already been visited. 

The outlook for visits in 2019 will be as follows:

March 1-15: Psychology (in progress).

From March 15 to April 14: Architecture and Urbanism; Materials Science and Engineering and Nanotechnology; Chemical and Biological Engineering and Environmentally Sustainable Chemistry.

From April 15 to May 14: Communication Sciences; Marine Sciences and Technologies; Economics; Philosophy; Public Health, Nursing, Health and Sport Technologies, Rehabilitation and Wellness.

From May 15 to June 14: Educational Sciences; Literary Studies; Mediterranean Studies: Tourism, Hospitality and Hotel Management; History and Archaeology; Clinical and Translational Research; Mathematics; Sociology, Anthropology, Demography and Geography. 

From June 1st to June 30th: Arts and Design, Artistic and Musical Development; Language Sciences; Physics; Management.

The evaluation process of the R&D Units involves 225 international evaluators for 348 applications from R&D Units integrating 19,273 researchers with PhDs.