Funding review casting shadow over Portuguese research could cloud other countries

By Teresa Marques. Every five years, the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation (FCT) reviews its research institutes from Astronomy to Zoology. But this year, for the first time, the FCT contracted the European Science Foundation (ESF) for the job. FCT's resulting reallocation of funding will impact upon the career of more than 5,000 researchers – a third of the total in the country. Read more...