The call for Projects for the Individual Support Financing Programme (Estímulo Individual) for post-doctoral Fellows financed by the FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Foundation for Science and Technology) is now open. 

The Individual Call will sponsor 300 five year contracts for researchers with PhDs in all scientific areas, that wish to join the work being developed in Portuguese research centers financed by the FCT. The submission period will from January 17th to February 20th, 2019 (5 pm. UTC). 

Within this framework, as a Research Unit sponsored by the FCT, the Institute for Medieval Studies (IEM) of the NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities of Universidade Nova de Lisboa (NOVA FCSH) accepts applications of candidates who wish to submit their projects having the IEM as host Institution. 

All those interested should contact the IEM-NOVA FCSH, until January 28th, by email, to: iem.direcao@fcsh.unl.pt, informing the Institute of their intention to apply. Such pre-application to the Institute’s board should be sent with a letter of motivation and an initial a draft of the Project they wish to submit, in no more than two pages. 

The IEM’s Board of directors will then analyze the applications before accepting to act as host Institution and will notify the candidates before the 5th February of the acceptance or refusal of their proposals. 

Further to this first acceptance, the applicants will receive feedback on their projects, as well as advice and support for the completion and submission of the research project proposal to the National Funding Board. 

For further Information, please refer to the FCT website, where you will find the application forms, as well as all the all details, instructions and guidelines.