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2024 Call for Exploratory Research Projects under the UT Austin Portugal Program
ID 108 2024-12-02 / 2025-01-22
Description
Applications must be presented to FCT, in English, from December 2, 2024 to January 22, 2025, 5 p.m. Lisbon time, using a specific on-line form and submitted through myFCT platform.
The 2024 Call for Exploratory Research Projects (ERPs) under the UT Austin Portugal Program has been designed to help teams of researchers from non-corporate entities of the NSST and The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) come together to conduct joint exploratory research activities in the leading scientific areas of the UT Austin Portugal Program.
Proposed projects must aim to stimulate and promote Portugal’s international competitiveness through Science and Technology (S&T), focusing on the opportunities provided by the data economy as a driver of growth and change.
Submitted proposals must configure groundbreaking, high-risk/high-reward projects with a potential for further expansion. Although exploratory research projects (ERPs) are not expected to achieve, during their standard time frame, the sort of results typical of longer projects, submitted proposals must be able to clearly frame the outcomes they should deliver in 12 months and link them to long-term goals for full value realization.
The ERPs should value impact, i.e., propose potential solutions to real-world problems, thereby going beyond the production of scientific papers.
Considering the above-mentioned goals, FCT is launching the Exploratory Research Call to fund applications in the following areas:
a) Advanced Computing;
b) Nano Materials for New Markets;
c) Space-Earth Interactions.
A detailed description of the challenges and subtopics related to each scientific area is provided in the Terms of Reference for the 2024 Call for Exploratory Research Projects under the UT Austin Portugal Program.