Originally shared by Miguel Afonso Caetano"In an open letter to the president of FCT, a group of 13 social scientists from universities across Portugal also criticised the assessment. They claimed that rigour and impartiality were “glaringly absent” in the evaluation, taking as their case in point the failure of one of the country’s benchmark research units in the social sciences, the University Institute of Lisbon’s Centre of Investigation and Study in Sociology (CIES), to pass to the second stage."
Portugal cuts funding for lowest-rated labs : Nature News Blog