Through the FCT, the UT Austin|Portugal Program offers doctoral scholarships for PhD students in its program areas. These scholarships are available to students who have been accepted to one of the partner universities in the Program and are either nationals or legal residents of Portugal. The scholarship call opens in April of each year, but students must have been accepted to an appropriate university first. Areas of study funded by these grants include the following.

Digital Media

• Audiovisual and Interactive Content Creation (including film and television, interactive music and sound design, participative media for education and culture) 
• Journalism
• Technologies
• Industry, Public and Markets

Advanced Computing

• Computer Science, namely in methodologies and techniques in High—performance-computing (HPC), distributed/grid computing and large-scale data analysis and management; 
• Computational Engineering or Science with specific requirements in advanced computing.

Mathematics

• Algebra and Number Theory;
• Applied and Numerical Analysis;
• Analysis and Partial Differential Equations;
• Geometry and Topology;
• Optimization;
• Stochastic Processes and Mathematical Finance;
• Dynamic Systems.

For more information about these scholarships, please check out the 2009 call for applications.