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Research Incentives

Seed Funding

The Seed Funding programme was created by ILIND with the aim of supporting and rewarding activities and projects that reinforce interdisciplinarity and cross-fertilisation between different areas of knowledge.

The aim of this call for proposals is to stimulate the development of research activities and excellence among researchers from the Research and Development Units of Ensino Lusófona, funded by the FCT (Foundation for Science and Technology).

The competition is intended to fund innovative projects, preferably with a strong interdisciplinary component in any area of knowledge that could result in larger-scale projects to be submitted for funding from other organisations.

Funded Projects

The following Research Centers funded by FCT are eligible to participate in the call for proposals set out in these regulations:

  • CBIOS (Centro de Investigação em Biociências e Tecnologias da Saúde);
  • CEAD - Centro de Estudos Avançados em Direito;
  • CeiED (Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares em Educação e Desenvolvimento);
  • CICANT ( Centro de Investigação em Comunicação Aplicada, Cultura e Novas Tecnologias);
  • HEI-Lab - Laboratórios Digitais de Ambientes e Interações Humanas;
  • CIDEFES - Centro de Investigação em Desporto, Educação Física, Exercício e Saúde (pólo do CIFI2D);
  • COPELABS (Centro de Investigação em Computação Centrada nas Pessoas e Cognição);
  • I-MVET - Investigação em Medicina Veterinária (pólo do CECAV);
  • Intrepid Lab -Research For Business and Society (pólo do CETRAD);
  • TerrA.ID - Centro de Investigação em Território, Arquitectura e Ambiente e  Design.ID- Grupo de Investigação em Design (pólo do CIAUD).

São ainda admitidas as seguintes UI&Ds e Grupos de Investigação Autónomos, não financiados pela FCT:  

  • LusoGlobe (Centro de Investigação em Biociências e Tecnologias da Saúde);
  • RCM2+ - Centro de Investigação em Gestão de Ativos e Engenharia de Sistemas;
  • BioRG - Grupo de Investigação em Bioengenharia e Sustentabilidade.
  • RISEn - Resilient Infrastructure Systems and Environment.

Regulation (PT) Roadmap   Factsheet

Available budget allocation

Each UI&D, UI&D cluster, Autonomous Research Group and Research Centre, as identified in Article 3, is allocated a maximum grant of €10,000.
The maximum amount of funding per project is €10,000; the UI&D’s total allocation may be distributed amongst one or more approved projects, up to the maximum limit of the total amount allocated.

Eligible Project Expenses

Eligible project expenses, duly justified, include:

  • Human Resources – including research grants for students enrolled on Master’s and/or PhD programmes at Lusophone Higher Education Institutions;
  • Procurement of goods and services – such as: reagents, laboratory consumables, software, patents, etc.;
  • Scientific instruments and equipment – provided they are not already available at Lusophone Higher Education Institutions and are limited to 10 per cent of the funding requested;
  • Demonstration, promotion and dissemination – including registration for conferences and scientific events to present oral papers, and the publication of articles in international Q1 or Q2 peer-reviewed scientific journals.

Results

Additional Information

All applications must be accompanied by:

I. Form (PT)

II. Budget (PT)