This Call is designed to assist teams of researchers from the NSST entities, the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and industry partners in bootstrapping high-impact potential research activities of strategic relevance for the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program (CMU Portugal). The Call encourages recent Ph.D. graduates that are faculty at Portuguese Universities or researchers with an appointment in Portuguese research institutions to submit a research proposal.

Under this Call, the Program is seeking proposals, namely in the area of ICT, focusing on the opportunities provided by the data economy as a driver of growth and change.

The following non-entrepreneurial Portuguese entities of the R&I are individual or co-promotion beneficiaries:

• Higher Education Institutions, their Institutes, and R&D units;
• State or international Laboratories with head offices in Portugal;
• Non-profit private institutions whose main objective is R&D activities;
• Other non-profit private and public institutions developing or participating in scientific research activities.

The participating researchers from Carnegie Mellon University will be funded by the program's CMU counterpart, through Amendment No. 8 to the Research and Education Collaboration Agreement between FCT and CMU.

The project shall have a maximum duration of 12 months, renewable for a maximum of 3 months, in duly justified cases.

The budget allocation for this call is € 400.000,00.

The maximum budget for Portuguese research institutions in each ERP cannot exceed:

• € 70.000,00 for consortia with more than one Portuguese research institution;
• € 50.000,00 for projects with a single Portuguese research institution.

For detailed information see the call page.

For inquiries of scientific nature, please contact the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program at research@cmuportugal.org. For specific information related to application submission, please contact concursoprojetos@fct.pt.