Initiative from FCT and AICIB to support research to fight Covid-19
Special support for rapid implementation projects for innovative response solutions to COVID-19 pandemic
Taking into account the current outbreak of the new coronavirus and COVID-19 and the situation of increasing uncertainty and social alarm in which we live, but also the scientific and technological capacity existing in Portugal, the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), in collaboration with the Agency for Clinical Research and Biomedical Innovation (AICIB) open a special funding, “RESEARCH 4 COVID-19”, to R&D projects and initiatives that respond to the needs of the National Health Service (SNS) as a response to this and future pandemics in a very short time horizon.