Results from Call Stimulus for Individual Scientific Employment
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The results of the 1st Call of Stimulus to Scientific Employment - Individual(CEEC Individual) were released today. After a preliminary hearing, 515 doctoral researcher employment contracts were approved in all scientific areas and in all four contractual categories. FCT will now send the program contracts to the institutions to sign the funding agreement.
Funding is provided for 280 Junior Researcher, 163 Assistant Researcher, 68 Principal Investigator and 4 Coordinating Researcher contracts. Of the 515 researchers now selected, 53% are women. The results of Call also reveal the high internationalization of Portuguese science, since 100 researchers are foreigners - almost 20% of those who will be funded.
The candidates were selected through an evaluation and ranking process carried out by 25 international panels and coordinated by José Carlos Marques dos Santos. The overall success rate was 12.5%: 12% of the junior researcher candidates, 12.8% of the assistant researcher candidates, 13.2% of the principal researcher candidates and 57.1% of the coordinator researcher candidates were selected for funding. 173 contracts were awarded in Natural Sciences, 99 in Engineering and Technology, 72 in Humanities and Arts, 72 in Social Sciences, 64 in Health and Medical Sciences and 35 in Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences.
The Individual CEEC is one of the funding instruments for hiring researchers defined by the Scientific Employment Regulation, launched in 2017 by FCT following the publication of Decree-Law No. 57/2016. The 2nd edition of Call (2018) has applications open until next February 20th. The applications will then be complemented by the phase of association of the institutions to the candidates.
At this moment, hiring of researchers in the Institutional CEEC 2018 is also taking place in the institutions, under which 400 positions have been allocated. In both Calls, the contract is signed between the host institution and the doctoral researcher, and funded by FCT.
