An application drawn up by the FCCN Unit of the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) has been approved, resulting in funding of 825 thousand euros. Find out more about the main objectives.
The year 2021 kicks off with the approval of an application by the Unit FCCN to the support system for the digital transformation of Public Administration (SAMA). This proposal aims to implement strategic developments in the areas of Science Management and Open Science and will result in increased funding for the following projects PTCRIS, RCAAP and b-on projects.
In total, the funding guaranteed is around 825 thousand euros, with one of the main focuses being in the area of research data management. In this sense, the application provides for the provision of infrastructures and services to the education and research community, with a view to sharing research results in data repositories suitable for this purpose.
Also in the field of support to scientific activity, the approved application provides for the implementation of a national registry of science and technology funding (SciPROJ), with the aim of aggregating national funding in a single database, under an open data regime. In this way, it will be possible to stimulate the sharing and reuse of this information. Another open data resource to be created concerns the implementation of a national register of outputs of science and technology, with the aim of aggregating them in a single database.
The application now approved will also act in the field of business intelligenceIt will produce indicators to support management and decision support processes, based on national records of publications and funding. Finally, another objective is to promote the policy of open access to research results funded by FCT. This step is seen as strategic for increasing the potential impact of funded research.
