Advanced Fellowships and Grants

Introduction

FCT grants through public calls and administers, directly or indirectly, or in cooperation with other agencies, a great variety of fellowships and grants according to the applicable Regulations. Except where otherwise noted, the FCT Department handling fellowships and grants is the Departamento de Formação dos Recursos Humanos em Ciência e Tecnologia (DFRH).

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Most grants awarded are either Bolsas de Doutoramento (BD) or Bolsas de Pós-Doutoramento (BPD) through a annual call for individual grants.

With the support of FCT, the Agência de Inovação offers a permanent open call for Bolsas de Estágio em Organizações Científicas e Tecnológicas Internacionais (BEST) for engineers seeking internships at CERN, ESA or ESO.

In accordance with a mandate to strengthen scientific organizations and decentralization of the grant awarding process, FCT finances, through R&D projects and units, Bolsas de Investigação Científica e Tecnológica no âmbito de Unidades de I&D and Bolsas de Investigação Científica e Tecnológica no âmbito de Projectos de Investigação respectively. These are handled by the relevant FCT Departments: Departamento de Programas e Projectos de Investigação Cientifica e Desenvolvimento Tecnológico (DPP) and Departamento de Suporte à Rede de Instituições Cientificas e Tecnológicas (DSRI) in cooperation with DFRH. Bolsas de Cientista Convidado (BCC) and Bolsas de Integração na Investigação (BII) are handled in a similar fashion.

Institutions can appply at all times for grants open through institutional application, namely Bolsas de Gestão em Ciência e Tecnologia (BGCT). Additionally, a permanent call for Bolsas de Licença Sabática (BSAB) is available to individual applicants.

There are other types of grants not explicitly mentioned in this introductory page. For a full list and description of all grant types see Section I, Chapter II of the Regulations. Legal existence of a grant type does not necessarily imply its current availability.

FCT also supports applications to Marie Curie Actions Fellowships of the 7^th Framework Programme.