FCT Announces Six Winning Projects in 2009 MPP Open Call

1.2M Euro total awards to support joint efforts by Portuguese, MIT researchers and industry partners

The Portuguese Science Foundation (FCT) has announced the six projects that were selected to receive funding totaling 1.2M Euros in the 2009 FCT open call for research and development projects in the framework of the MIT-Portugal Program.

The areas of emphasis of the selected projects range across the Program’s four targeted application areas of Sustainable Energy and Transportation Systems, Stem Cell Engineering for Regenerative Medicine, Materials and Design-Inspired Products, and Engineering Systems Fundamentals.

The table below indicates the Portuguese and MIT principal investigators (PIs) for each awarded project, along with industry and other non-academic participating institutions:

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The official announcement by FCT is also available.