The Scientific Employment Incentive Program is an incentive for hiring researchers and developing scientific employment plans and scientific careers by public or private institutions.
This financial support strengthens the national scientific and technological system and promotes employment opportunities for doctors, facilitating the formalization of scientific employment and contributing to greater national attractiveness for highly qualified young people. They also contribute to the rejuvenation of scientific institutions, attracting more and better scientists, and to facilitating a framework that stimulates researcher mobility.
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2552
contracts in execution
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122 M€
investment in 2021
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21%
of the total investment of the FCT
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To contact the FCT about Scientific Employment, use email, forwarding your question to one of the following addresses, depending on the topic.
Scientific Employment Funding
Requests for information on the management and monitoring of funding allocated within the scope of doctoral recruitment programs.
Individual Scientific Employment
For information within the scope of Call to Stimulate Scientific Employment – Individual Support Modality
Institutional Scientific Employment
For information within the scope of Call to Stimulate Scientific Employment – Institutional Support Modality
Transitional Standard
For information on hiring doctors under the Transitional Rule - art. 23 - of Decree-Law 57/2016.
Updated on 28 November 2023