Deadline: 2-Dec-22
The present Announcement for Call for Proposals (ACP) is intended for Exploratory Research Projects within the scope of Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program.
Aims and Priorities
The consolidation and reinforcement of the National System of Science and Technology (NSST) constitute priorities of national policy for science and technology that aims to increase the national and international competitiveness of science and technology, and its contribution to innovation and transfer of knowledge. In this context, it is particularly relevant the promotion and strengthening of the scientific and technological institutions through the participation of research teams in Projects.
This Call is designed to assist teams of researchers from the NSST entities, the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and industry partners in bootstrapping high-impact potential research activities of strategic relevance for the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program (CMU Portugal). The Call encourages recent Ph.D. graduates that are faculty at Portuguese Universities or researchers with an appointment in Portuguese research institutions to submit a research proposal.
Considering these goals FCT launches the Exploratory Research Call (ERPs) for funding projects that aim to stimulate and promote Portugal’s international competitiveness and innovation capacity in Science and Technology (S&T), in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).
Funding Information
- The budget allocation for this call is EUR 400.000, for projects starting in 2023. The maximum budget for Portuguese research institutions in each ERP cannot exceed:
- 70.000 euros for consortia with more than one Portuguese research institution;
- 50.000 euros for projects with a single Portuguese research institution.
- Depending on the proposals’ quality, up to 8 (eight) new awards are expected to be financed. However, the actual number of exploratory projects funded will depend on the quality of the submitted proposals and funding available.
Project
- Applications which have been submitted in previous editions of the same call with an ongoing decision process are not allowed to apply;
- Multiple applications of the same projects are not accepted:
- In different calls in which there is temporal overlap within the submission of applications;
- In the case of applications to calls with different theme scopes, and which take place indifferent periods of application submission, the funding recommendation within one of them is a condition for exclusion from the decision process of the remaining ones.
Supported Entities
The following non-entrepreneurial Portuguese entities of the R&I are individual or co-promotion beneficiaries:
- Higher Education Institutions, their Institutes, and R&D units;
- State or international Laboratories with head offices in Portugal;
- Non-profit private institutions whose main objective is R&D activities;
- Other non-profit private and public institutions developing or participating in scientific research activities. The participating researchers from Carnegie Mellon University will be funded by the program’s CMU counterpart, through Amendment No. 8 to the Research and Education Collaboration Agreement between FCT and CMU.
For more information, visit https://www.fct.pt/apoios/projectos/concursos/cmu/2022/CMU2022_AAC_EN.pdf