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Portugal: female science leaders could speed up change

  1. Paulo Cartaxana

    1. University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal.

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Faculty members at Portuguese universities have not unanimously welcomed the government’s programmes to attract young researchers and provide them with more stable employment opportunities. These funding schemes, including the Foundation for Science and Technology’s investigator programme and its Individual Call to Scientific Employment Stimulus, are allowing early-career scientists to build strong research teams and to acquire international funding.

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Nature 600, 221 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03641-w

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  • Correction 20 December 2021: An earlier version of this Correspondence article gave the wrong year in the picture caption. Liliana Tomé won the L’Oréal Portugal Medal of Honor for Women in Science in 2020, not 2021.

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