DISCLAIMER

This platform intends to organize, summarize and, in some cases, translate to English content relevant for PhD candidates from the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon.

Overall,

  1. Bureaucracy (to be created)
  2. FCT PhD grant (to be created)
  3. Templates (to be created)
  4. PhD thesis guidelines
  5. PhD defense guidelines
  6. After the PhD defense


The information here provided can only be considered up to date until the 13th December 2018. The reader is advised to confer if newer regulations or templates have been made available.

Moreover, as this platform is an informal attempt to support PhD candidates, dismisses any responsibility on the use which may be made of the information here disclosed and recommends the readers to regularly refer to the official documentation:

  • FCT's "Regulamento de Bolsas de Investigação" (i.e. Research grants regulation, in Portuguese only) from 2018 (link);
  • FCT's "Estatuto do Bolseiro de Investigação" (i.e. Statute of the Research Fellow, in Portuguese only) from 2013 (link);
  • The Despacho n.º 3098/2018 (link, in Portuguese only), the legal-binding document which regulates PhD studies done at FCUL;
  • FCUL’s webpage regarding educational offer (link).
  • FCUL’s webpage regarding PhD thesis submission and defense (link).