President FCT sign contracts before the end of the competitions - the Minute News

Today, the FCT program has signed agreements with 54 institutions that will receive 204 researchers selected this year by the Investigator FCT Program.

on Saturday to Minister of Education and Science, Nuno Crato, the deputy of the Left Bloc Louis Farm argued that, according to the contest rules, contracts should be signed only after the publication of the list in order of the candidates, which is subject to a period of ten days to complaints, and only after this period is considered a final list.

Faced with the issue, the chairman of the FCT, Miguel Seabra, Lusa agency said today that it is “standard procedure in the FCT contests” the publication of the “list of candidates selected by an international panel”, before the period prior hearing and appeal.

“Regardless of this list, arising from the normal processes, including the preliminary hearing, the appeal. We will respect all these procedures,” he said, adding that the FCT must “join that list that deserve some researchers, in fact, be funded, “if such a situation is confirmed in the stage of preliminary hearing or appeal.

Miguel Seabra recalled that, in the contest of 2012 were included more “three to four candidates in preliminary hearing for funding” and “in action”.

President of FCT said that, “this year in particular, there is some expedite the process” because “imposition by the European Structural Funds and the State Budget Law,” the end of the year is the deadline to “finalize its financing” and “conclude employment contracts between host institutions and researchers FCT”.