Seed Funding

Presentation

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.

Regulation (PT)

Roadmap

Funded Projects

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

• CBIOS (Research Center for Biosciences & Health Technologies);
• CeiED (Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Education and Development);
• CICANT (Centre for Research in Applied Communication, Culture, and New Technologies);
• COPELABS (People-Centered Computing and Cognition Research Center);
• HEI-Lab (Digital Laboratories for Environments and Human Interactions).

Financing Amounts and Eligible Expenditure

The maximum amount for funding purposes is 15,000€ per Research Center.

The projects that achieve the highest score in the evaluation will be selected, up to the limit of the amount allocated to the programme, which is 15,000€.

Eligible project expenditure is considered duly justified:

• Missions, meetings and trips;
• Registration for congresses and scientific events as speakers;
• Research grants for student researchers (undergraduate, master's and/or doctoral students at Ensino Lusófona HEIs);
• Exemption or reduction of tuition fees for student researchers (undergraduate, master's and/or doctoral students at Ensino Lusófona HEIs);
• Translation and revision for publication purposes;
• Costs of publishing scientific articles, within the scope of the project, in international scientific journals, with peer review, Q1 or Q2;
• Laboratory reagents and consumables;
• Equipment, provided it is duly justified and covered, after verification by the PMO that these resources do not exist, and provided they do not exceed 10 per cent of the total funding requested.

Results

• Final Results of the 5th Edition
  • Animation for Health and Wellbeing in Hospital Waiting Spaces
  • Development of a platform for bioactive compounds research using Artificial Intelligence;
  • Lightwave Underwater Network for Microplastic Monitoring in Portugal;
  • Achieving Full Cognitive Autonomy in Drone Navigation for Smart City Applications;
  • Cybersecurity Awareness Training Simulator;
  • Times of change and changing times: a study of the relationship between curricular autonomy and teacher involvement and well-being;
  • Nanosolutions to upgrade the daily management of rare skin conditions;
  • Multidrug Resistance Reversal in Cancer Through a Novel Allosteric Mechanism.
• Final Results of the 4th Edition

  ▫ ALQI: an intelligent chatbot to explore new literacies in the age of algorithms and AI;
  ▫ SATellite-less solutions for secure navigation in smart city applications;
  ▫ Airboarned Optical-enabled & Energy Entropy based Wildfire Detection & Prediction Scheme;
  ▫ Immersive Process-Based Assessment: The role of non-verbal;
  ▫ Children's Participation in River Preservation: More Inclusive and Resilient Cities;
  ▫ Innovative skin products from the valorization of industrial marine wastes.
  

• Final Results of the 3rd Edition

  ▫ CoSysCan- Combining synergistic approaches to fight cancer;
  ▫ MetCardio_DBC - Dietary Patterns and Body Composition: Implications for Metabolic and Cardiovascular Health;
  ▫ Networking voices: Women's participation in development processes;
  ▫ UCORE: Ubiquitous COmposite multi sensing and REsponsive meaningfulness multi contexts;
  ▫ DIGITAL CEO- Digital Chief Executive Officer;
  ▫ MUSDIS- ART AND THE MUSEOLOGIC DISPOSITIVE. INCLUSIVE COMMUNICATION.

• Final Results of the 2nd Edition
  • Abietane Cationic Amphiphiles (ACA) to tackle resistant bacteria
  • Exploiting the potential of dehydroabietic acid formulations to tackle skin ageing;
  • Inclusive Glossary of Mathematical Terms;
  • Love-Hate: interactions between social media users and influencers in hyperconnected times;
  • Radio Ethics and Community Integration and Project;
  • Vrmnesis: training anamnesis in a VR setting;
  • Artificial Intelligence and Sensory Fusion for the Detection of Falls in the Elderly Population
  • Sensing and Monitoring 3D Printers for Construction
  • Communication model using IoT protocols for the UbiPri Middleware
  • The Importance of Green Infrastructure and Physical Activity in Times of Pandemic
• Final Results of the 1st Edition

  ▫ Portugal's Maritime Landscapes and Immersive Media: representations of Nazaré from early 20th century stereoscopic photographs to early 21st century 360º videos;
  ▫ Network Activism and Collaborative Platforms. The case of activism and platforms that emerged in the wake of the 2017 fires (Portugal);
  ▫ Sound and Education;
  ▫ Measuring the impact of sound effects and ambiances on audiences in certain key paradigms;
  ▫ Decentralized Cooperative Learning and Control for Networked Dynamical Systems;
  ▫ Distributed Secure Localization;
  ▫ Cognitive and affective processing of stimuli in digital contexts;
  ▫ Using Technology to promote Health and Well-being;
  ▫ Redox Modulation of Cancer Progression;
  ▫ Applicability of Tailored Ionic Liquids in drug delivery systems;
  ▫ The place of immaterial cultural heritage in educational processes;
  ▫ Urban Rivers Base Platform - base-RIU.

Additional Information

All applications must be accompanied by:

I. Compromise Declaration (PT)

II. Form (PT)

III. Budget (PT)

Proposals must be submitted in Portuguese or English.