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2024 Call for Exploratory Research Projects under the MIT Portugal Program
ID 109 2024-12-02 / 2025-01-22
Description
ANNOUNCEMENT FOR SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS
Applications must be presented to FCT, in English, from December 2, 2024 to January 22, 2025, at 5 p.m. Lisbon time, using a specific on-line form and submitted through myFCT platform.
With the aim of promoting investment in science, technology, and higher education, and contributing to the stimulation of economic and social development in Portugal, and assuming broad cooperation between National System of Science and Technology entities and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), FCT is launching this Exploratory Research Call to fund applications oriented towards scientific research in a holistic approach through integrated and multidisciplinary projects with a vision of scale evolution, in the following thematic areas:
- Climate Science & Climate Change
- Earth Systems: Oceans to Near Space
- Digital Transformation in Manufacturing
- Sustainable Cities
The PeX should take an “exploratory approach”, i.e., adopt a research theme in one of the emerging areas of the MIT Portugal Program that can be identified as a future research area, with high impact for Portugal as a living laboratory in the development and validation of new solutions, and that promotes the competitiveness of the Portuguese economy.
The application should aim to develop research activities between Portuguese universities and the MIT towards the development of intelligent solutions, promoting knowledge/research value, promoting the sustainable thinking, integrating human factors and technology, and stimulating multidisciplinary approaches. The research plan must mention in which terms the MIT research team will contribute to the project.
All applications must fully comply with the terms of reference defined in the Terms of Reference for the 2024 Call for Exploratory Research Projects under the MIT Portugal Program.