Research: complained and improved note – TVI24

The Institute of Telecommunications was one of the ten research units that after contesting the results of the current assessment, became candidates for the bulk of public funding for the next five years.

also moved into the second phase, which gives the possibility to research centers to access funds up to 400 000 euros per year, the Research Centre for Studies in Sociology of ISCTE and the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering of Coimbra, the According to final results of the first phase of evaluation of scientific institutions, released today by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT).

Both the Institute of Telecommunications, the only lab that chumbara associated in the evaluation, such as the Research Centre for Studies in Sociology of ISCTE and the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering of Coimbra had dropped this year, initially your rankings, getting a base funding up to 40 thousand euros.

However, the three institutions have contested the results, it becomes one of the top ten list of research units, which, after the rectification of the rankings, moved into the second phase.

The same fate had not the Centre of Linguistics of the University of Porto (CLUP) and the Centre for Mechanical Engineering, University of Coimbra (CEMUC), which also lowered its rating this year, and still without entitled to any public funding in the next five years.

The CLUP, pointing flaws in your assessment that, in his view, led him down the rating of ‘very good’ to ‘poor’, has claimed that without support, closes doors. A petition against “the only center specializing in linguistics from the north” was posted on the Internet.

The CLUP and the CEMUC are two of the 63 research centers that were excluded from any funding, according to the final results of the first phase of evaluation published today by the FCT public entity that subsidizes science in Portugal.

No can also change the note, which kept a residual financing up to 40 000 euros per year, the Institute of Mediterranean Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Evora, Center of Physics, University of Minho and the Center of Statistics and Applications, University of Lisbon are, however, possible candidates in 2015, the restructuring fund announced by the Minister of Education and Science for these cases, amounting to six million euros.

The three institutions in the list of 45 scientific centers based guaranteed funding, which, though far from the bulk of funds are “potential beneficiaries” of the 2015 Incentive Program

according to results released today by the FCT, 45 percent of the 322 units assessed were excluded from the second phase, whose results will be announced in December.

FCT, however, stresses that the centers that carried over to the second phase – 178 – represent 71 percent of the universe of researchers.

In the first phase, 131 units contested the ratings. The centers that refuse to data published today can further use the results.

The evaluation of research units has been challenged by members of the scientific community, by eliminating almost half of the centers of the largest slice of funding, and led the National Union for Higher Education, which represents researchers to submit a complaint to prosecutors, citing irregularities and illegalities in the contest.

The FCT, which has signed a contract with the evaluation the European Science Foundation, has pointed to the process rigor and transparency.