Developing a national science & technology funding registry in Portugal

Abstract

Funding information is one of the pillars of the research information ecosystem. Despite this, it is still very challenging to associate scientific outputs to all the entities that financially support a project and all the stakeholders involved. To tackle this, PTCRIS – a national integrated research information management ecosystem - developed a new infrastructure to support the management of attributed funding to the scientific triad in the Portuguese scientific ecosystem: organizations, people and projects. The SciPROJ database is the new national database that aggregates funding records (national and international) that support science and technology activities carried out in Portugal.