Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) is the Portugal’s main funding agency for research and it is responsible for following and implementing the bilateral and multilateral International S&T cooperation agreements in science and technology. FCT is a public autonomous institute under the aegis of the Ministry of Education and Science (MEC), which covers all the fields of science, aiming at capacity enhancement and research excellence. FCT´s mission consists in continuously promoting the advancement of scientific and technological knowledge in Portugal, exploring opportunities that became available in any scientific or technological domain to attain the highest international standards in the creation of knowledge, and to stimulate their diffusion and contribution to improve education, health, environment, and the quality of life and wellbeing of the general public.