Funding of Exploratory PROJ

Call for Funding

Exploratory Projects

2023/2024 – 2nd EDITION

Call for funding

02/02/2023

ONLINE

With the goal of strengthening collaboration among researchers of its seven research units, IN2PAST has established a funding support program for collective exploratory projects. These projects are intended to generate new research hypotheses, leading to the preparation of future applications for competitive international and national funding.

Projects should align with one or more of the five IN2PAST’S Thematic Lines (TL). More information here (in Portuguese).

The research team on each project must have a designated lead researcher (Principal Investigator), who must be a fully integrated researcher holding a PhD from one of the research units of IN2PAST: HERCULES, CHAIA, IHC, CESEM, IHA, CRIA or LAB2PT.

Teams can consist of four to ten members, with the necessary condition that there must be integrated PhD researchers from three of the research units of IN2PAST. Principal Investigators must ensure that team members fulfil all FCT requirements to holding the status of integrated researchers.

Applications must be submitted by 11:59 PM on April 10, 2023, and should be sent via email to: in2past@fcsh.unl.pt

The funding support for each project will range from €8,000 to a maximum of €10,000 (when adequately justified), with the intention of supporting between three and five projects in this competition.

Projects should be submitted with the

following information:

Title (max. 200 characters) and Abstract (max. 3,000 characters);
Literature review (max. 4,000 characters), Research Plan and Methods (max. 6,000 characters), and Bibliographic References (max. 20 references);
Schedule (max. 1,000 characters, with projects starting in September 2023 and having a maximum duration of 12 months) and Budget (max. 1,000 characters, specifying the type of expenses to be incurred);
Justification of the project’s contribution to the IN2PAST line(s) it aligns with and its role in forming interdisciplinary IN2PAST teams across different research units (max. 1,000 characters);
Plan for future funding applications (max. 1,000 characters, aiming to identify future funding sources for the project);
Identification of the Principal Investigator (full name and Ciência Vitae PDF) and the other researchers forming the research team (full names and Ciência Vitae PDFs).

The selection of proposals will be conducted by the Coordinating Committee of the IN2PAST Scientific Council. Projects will be scored between 0 and 10 points, based on the following criteria:

Literature review and Research Plan and Methods (0 to 5 points);

Justification of the project’s contribution to the IN2PAST line(s) it aligns with and its role in forming interdisciplinary IN2PAST teams across different research units (0 to 3 points);

Plan for future funding applications (0 to 2 points);

Projects with fewer than 8 points will not be funded. Once the results are communicated, lead investigators have eight business days to contest them. After this, the jury will reconvene to finalize the results.

The competition results will be communicated by May 31, 2023.