Call for Applications to Individual Post-Doctoral Grants 2009
The Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) opens a call for the funding of individual post-doctoral grants (BPD). These grants are meant for doctoral degree holders, preferably having been awarded the degree in the last 5 years, for the performance of advanced research work in Portuguese or foreign research institutions of known good standing. Post-doctoral grants in a foreign country will only be awarded in excepcional conditions, requiring proof in an unambiguous way that they serve national strategic interests.
The Call is open from June 15th to September 1st and will only have one evaluation cycle.
Individual applications must be submitted electronically, using the web application available at:
Approved grants may start not before January 1st 2010.
Only applications sealed by the candidates will be considered for evaluation. The evaluation will take into account the merits of the candidate, work plan and hosting conditions. The evaluation panel for each main scientific domain will receive an evaluation guide, to be used to evaluate the corresponding applications, weight the available data and produce an ordered list of candidates.
The regulations are available at:
