The 2017/2018 R&D Unit Evaluation Results have been released and CINTESIS obtained an Overall Quality Grade of “Very Good”, which will translate into a total funding of 3.3 M€, to be used in research during the period 2020-2023.
According to Altamiro da Costa Pereira, coordinator of this unit, “thanks to the efforts of CINTESIS researchers, which has been rewarded by the Foundation for Science and Technology, CINTESIS sees a fourfold increase of its funding for the next four years.” This is good news for a research unit that has been growing strongly since 2015, and that currently comprises more than 500 researchers across the country.
CINTESIS was the research unit that received the most funding in the Panel HEALTH SCIENCES – Public Health, Nursing, Health and Sports Technologies, Rehabilitation and Well-being, which brought together almost 20 units.
In the framework of the total funding referred before, funds will be allocated to the opening of 20 research grants and 2 doctoral research contracts. According to the FCT, the scholarship holders “will be selected in open calls directly managed by the respective R&D units.”
The amount of funding for the four years under the Multi-Year Funding Program for Research and Development Units (R&D) is of EUR 420 million (412 million already allocated).
To the media, the FCT revealed that the process of the units’ evaluation expressed “a high scientific and technological level, and the Evaluation Panels detected in many R&D units significant contributions to the advancement of knowledge and its application at the hight international levels.”