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COVID-19's Impact Mitigation Exceptional Allocation Regulation Studentships

Studentships Following the information previously made available, FCT informs that the Regulations for Attribution of Exceptional Impact Mitigation Regulations of COVID-19 in Research Activities (Regulation no. 560-A/2021), applicable to Studentships directly funded by FCT (Studentships contracted between FCT and the research fellows) have been published in the Official Gazette, which can be consulted here

Research grantees whose work plans have been severely damaged due to the suspension of face-to-face activities determined by the COVID-19 disease, may submit a reasoned request to be awarded the exceptional Studentship to mitigate the impacts of COVID-19. This request can be submitted until July 1, 2021, to bolsasexcecionais@fct.pt.

It should be clarified that, for grantees whose contracted Studentship duration is shorter than the maximum allowed by the applicable Regulation(Regulation no. 950/2019), it is still possible to request an amendment to the duration of Studentship, up to the maximum provided for in the Regulation, based on unforeseeable and duly justified circumstances. The COVID-19 Regulation for the Attribution of Exceptional Impact Mitigation Studentships grants the possibility of attributing exceptional Studentships beyond the maximum duration hitherto possible.

With regard to Studentships indirectly funded by the FCT (Studentships not contracted with the FCT), namely Studentships whose activities take place within the scope of projects, research units and research infrastructures, as a funding institution and not as a contracting entity, the FCT makes it possible, within the scope of monitoring the execution of these support instruments, to introduce adaptations to the work plans, as well as reprogramming of a financial nature (re-budgeting between expenditure items, without increasing the funding granted) and of a temporal nature, under the conditions and within the limits established in the specific regulations or calls for proposals, which will make it possible to accommodate possible extensions to the deadline for completion of these Studentships, which may be framed within the objectives and tasks of the projects and research units approved, and provided that the beneficiaries of the support so desire and communicate this.