Contracts Science and Technology Foundation hosts over 204 ... - To the Minute News

contract signature ceremony takes place in the Pavilion of Knowledge in Lisbon, aimed also noted “the goal achieved in just two editions of the program: more than 350 positions Investigator assigned FCT”, reads the statement of institution.

According to the same document, the first contest in 2012, 159 positions Investigator FCT and this year over 204 are assigned.

“By 2016, it is planned to recruit 1,000 exceptional researchers to develop innovative lines of research in Portuguese research centers”, underlines the FCT.

In the second edition

contributed 1,489 researchers, of which 204 were selected by “international panels, on the basis of scientific excellence.”

Among the approved researchers, 26 come from foreign institutions to do research in Portugal.

Investigator FCT program “aims to create the conditions for the establishment of internationally renowned scientists in Portugal, through the allocation of funding for five years to the most talented and promising scientists in all scientific areas and nationalities,” read- the communiqué of the FCT.

The ceremony will be attended by the Secretary of State for Science, Leonor Parreira, and the chairman of FCT, Miguel Seabra.