Result of the Call of IC&DT Projects in all scientific domains

 FCT today announced the results of the Call of IC&DT Projects in all scientific domains, in which 312 projects were selected for funding. The list of projects recommended for funding and the summary of the results of Call are available here.

This Call has a budget allocation of 75 million euros, in an investment supported by national funds, through the FCT budget. This FCT funding through Call of IC&DT projects in all scientific domains contributes to the consolidation and strengthening of the National Scientific and Technological System, as a priority of national science and technology policy, in a transversal manner to all scientific areas.

The 312 projects recommended for funding are distributed across the following scientific areas: Medical and Health Sciences - 17.6%, Engineering and Technology Sciences - 25.3%, Natural Sciences - 17.9%, Social Sciences - 12.2%, Exact Sciences - 11.2%, Agricultural Sciences - 8.7% and Humanities - 7.1%. The principal investigators leading the funded projects are mostly men, representing 56.7% of the total, and 13.5% are foreign researchers, of 20 nationalities, working in research centers in Portugal and leading 42 of the selected projects.

Applications ran from January 30 to April 30 of this year. A total of 5847 applications were submitted to Call and a total of 3317 applications were considered eligible in accordance with the terms of Notice of the Call from Call. The success rate of Call was thus 9.4% of eligible applications.

The applications were evaluated by 33 evaluation panels, according to the respective scientific area, and 503 foreign external evaluators participated in the evaluation. Each proposal was evaluated and ranked for scientific merit and innovative character of the project, scientific merit of the research team, feasibility of the work program and contribution to the accumulation of knowledge and skills. In each panel, proposals were ranked according to their merit and the selection was made in order to ensure a similar success rate across all evaluation panels in terms of volume of eligible funding requested.

The Call of IC&DT projects in all scientific areas has an annual periodicity and integrates the great FCT structuring Calls , whose schedule is established until 2022 and published on the site.