Applications are now open for Summer with Science 2021 – FCT

FCT has opened applications for the special support “Summer with Science 2021”. Applications run until 17:00 (Lisbon time) on July 23, 2021.

The “Summer with Science” is a special support given by the FCT for scientific and technological research activities in R&D units with a view to enhancing scientific and technological capacity and its relationship with higher education and society. This support aims to stimulate initiation into scientific activity, thus contributing to the promotion of scientific and technological culture and to the dissemination and dissemination of scientific and technical knowledge among higher education students.

This program is intended to support “Summer with Science” projects for scientific and technological research activities in R&D units, by funding research initiation grants (art. 5 of the FCT Grant Regulation) for on-site research activities scientific. This support is intended for R&D units that obtained the classification of Good, Very Good or Excellent, attributed by the FCT in the 2017-2018 evaluation process of R&D Units.

This is the second edition of the Summer with Science initiative, which in 2020 financed 87 training actions from 22 institutions and 1175 research and research initiation grants under the special support promoted in collaboration with the Directorate General for Higher Education ( DGES).

More information on the “Summer with Science 2021” page.