Category: 2021 Feb-Mar – Info

O LIP obteve uma licença standard para um workspace no Slack. Esta licença permite ter uma maior capacidade de armazenamento e um número maior (mas limitado) de utilizadores registados.

Os pedidos de inclusão dos grupos do LIP que desejem usufruir deste serviço devem ser realizados pelos seus investigadores responsáveis enviando e-mail para helpdesk@lip.pt

A inclusão de utilizadores terá de ser gerida pelos grupos de forma a garantir que o limite da licença não será ultrapassado.

LIP slack workspace lip-talk.slack.com

FTC calls are ongoing (CEECs and PTDC). ERC was delayed but should be about to start. Latest predictions for the starting grant: from about NOW to April 8, to be confirmed…

• ERC 2021

The Starting Grant call should open any day now: on 22 Feb it was scheduled to open on 25 Feb (it didn’t) and close on 8 April. The Consolidator Grant call should open on 11 March 2021. The advice is: “We expect considerable continuity compared to previous calls, so we encourage applicants to prepare their proposals”.

• Institutional Call to Scientific Employment Stimulus, 2^nd Edition 17-02-2021 to 16-04-2021

• FCT PTDC 2021 28-01-2021 to 10-03-2021.

Info on open or expected calls is provided here. A dedicated webpage with more complete information on funding opportunities will soon be created on the LIP public website and linked in this newsletter.

A collection of recent information and documents: research line strategy discussion, minutes of the plenary and C4 meetings, Advisory board, PTDC reviews…

Research line strategy discussion

• March 25^th Research Line Strategy Discussion #1: LHC Experiments and Phenomenology
•  Wiki page with a discussion thread

Minutes and documents (C4 in Portuguese)

• Parecer sobre a proposta de contratação extraordinária
• Minutes of the February 17th meeting
• Minutes of the February 2nd meeting
• Minutes of the December 21^st plenary meeting

PTDC reviews

• The directorate asked for the help of the SC board to identify researchers to help on the revision of LIP’s applications to the PTDC call. Each PTDC should receive comments from two persons: one of the directors and another senior researcher.

2021 meeting with LIP’s international Advisory Board

• The meeting will be held (most probably only remotely) on April 29^th and 30^th

The results were made public by FCT on February 24th. All the 26 LAs were renovated (with the 2019 level of funding) and 14 new were created. LIP’s rating is clearly below expectations.

• The individual evaluation reports can be found here
• The results can be found here (excel file)

In conclusion, LIP keeps the status of Associate Laboratory, and roughly the 2019 level of funding. However, the rating is clearly below expectations. In the coming days the directorate will submit their comments to FCT in the hope not of greater funding but of a fairer classification.

Below you can find LIP’s application documentation and on the timeline of the call:

• 28 Sep 2020 Opening of the call
• 29 Oct 2020 Deadline for the application submission (see LIP’s application document)
• 10 Dec 2020 LIP’s public presentation (see LIP’s presentation slides and video recording)
• 9 Jan 2021 Deadline to reply to the panel’s clarification request
• 24 Feb 2021 Announcement of the results

LIP’s detailed and public 2020/2021 reports are under way. You can find here the detailed report v1.0 (draft database format) now circulating for comments.

• Detailed report: you can find the current draft (v1.0) here. You can also create the most up-to-date version possible, including all the latest changes in the DB: log into the LIP  Database and at the home page click: Get all current group reports with statistics for all active groups (no need to create date filter)
• Public report: not available yet

Other links:

• Slides presented at the Scientific Council meeting (including timeline)
• 2019/2020 reports: Detailed and Public
• LIP  Database

Did you recently have a look at the people’s webpage in LIP’s public website? We do need your help to get more photos into this wepage!

1) Your photo is in the LIP DB but it is not visible on the web?
please go to the DB and change your personal permissions (to show email, phone, photo) as appropriate.

2) Your photo is neither on the LIP DB nor on the web page? 
please send your picture to helmut@coimbra.lip.pt and then follow step (1) if necessary.

If you have any questions just send an email to helpdesk@lip.pt

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A new structure able to host web pages autonomously managed by the owners is now available. This has been a long-standing request.

For long, groups, projects and even individual researchers at LIP felt the need for public web pages that could be fully controlled by their owners, without the need for the intervention of the LIP webmaster. This issue is finally solved.

The get a page or ask for further information please contact webapps@lip.pt

As an example, the Auger group has this new public WordPress web page in which all the editing can be done autonomously by the group. This page can be accessed from the group’s institutional LIP page. For examples of autonomous project pages see LouMu or RD51. You can then link this pages wherever you like.