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The Government Programme sets as a national
priority
the fast scientific and technological development of
the country
and defines the Key figures and goals of that
development for the legislative period
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Quantitative goals
• Reaching 5.5 researchers/1000 active workers
•
Increasing from 1.000 to 1.500 new PhD holders per year
• Increasing from 400 to 600 scientific publications per million
inhabitants per year
• Trebling the number of patents registered in the European Patent
Office and the US Patent Office
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International indicators
• Increasing by 50% the number of new graduates in
sciences and engineering per year
• Doubling public investment in scientific research, from
0.5% to 1.0% of the GDP
• Trebling private investment in R&D, which was only
0.24% of the GDP in 2003
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Scientific progress is a development
engine and a source of progress
• Public resources
• Broad social participation
• Growing appropriation of scientific and technological
culture
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Main guidelines
• Investing in knowledge and in scientific and technical
competence, measured at the highest international level
• Investing in human resources and in scientific and
technological culture
• Investing in public and private R&D institutions, in their
reinforcement, responsibility, organization and networking
• Investing in internationalization, quality and evaluation
• Investing in the economical valorisation of research
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Structural measures (Human Resources)
• Welcome of high-profile scientific and technical immigrants
• Launching competitions for programme contracts with scientific
institutions aiming the financing individual research contracts for
PhD holders
• Increasing the number of new PhD and post-PhD grants
• Creating grants for integration in research
• Welcoming researchers with permanent activity abroad
• Implementing an advanced training programme and PhDs in clinical
research
• Creating or strengthening merit grants for students, especially in
Science and Engineering areas
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Structural measures (Institutions)
• Following the State Laboratories reform programme
• Implementing new Associated Laboratories
• Revising the Multi-annual Financing Programme of every R&D
Centres recognised by international assessment
• Implementing a scientific re-equipment programme
• Promoting the Research Projects Programme
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Structural measures (Higher Education)
• Creating invited chairs in Universities and research
Institutions
• Supporting technological specialization
created in polytechnic institutes
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programs
Structural measures (Companies)
• Strengthening and promoting
Companies and R&D Centres
Research
Consortia
between
• Clarifying R&D budgets and programmes carried out in companies
• Re-launching the specific programme of insertion of PhD holders in
companies
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Structural measures (Networks)
• Implementing common scientific equipment networks in State
Laboratories
• Creating a network of large S&T international partnerships in
association with international scientific organizations, foreign
Universities and other top scientific and technological
institutions
• Implementing the Thematic Research Network Programme
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New initiatives
• Creating the National Grid Computing Infrastructure,
INGRID
• Creating the International
Laboratory, INL
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Iberian
Nanotechnology
The establishment of this programme will involve an
increase in budget appropriations for the Ministry of
Science, Technology and Higher Education
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Organization of research centres and units
• re-evaluation and international evaluation
• suppression of units of insufficient quality
• strengthening of critical masses by aggregation of institutions
• compulsory creation of networks of resource
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)
• FCT was strengthened to function as a reference institution that
guarantees the system of assessment and funding capable of
assessing competences and international-level managers of science
and technology
• FCT’s Scientific Councils organized according to international
standards
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