The BIAL Foundation Grants Management System (BF-GMS) denotes the restricted access components of the BIAL Foundation Grants Management System and offers functionality to researchers and reviewers involved in the BF system of Grants for Scientific Research.
Here you can register to the website, complete your profile, create and submit a new application when a new Financial Support programme is available, as well as manage supported projects since 2014 – e.g. submit scientific and financial progress/final reports.
To use all the functionalities of the system you should first register through the link below. After registering to the website you will find PDF guide that will help you navigating through the System.
We remind you that you can only register once in the BF-GMS registration system. If you have lost and forgotten your login credentials please use the automated recovery tool.
If you still have any doubts, please contact fundacao@bial.com or +351 229 866 150.
BIAL Foundation Grants Management System (BF-GMS)
At the moment, it is not possible to create an account in the BF-GMS, since the Grants Programme for Scientific Research is not open to applications
Below you can find some testimonials of the supported researchers
Throughout several editions, the Grants for Scientific Research of the BIAL Foundation have been increasingly recognized. In the first edition of Grants, in 1994, the BIAL Foundation received a total of 48 applications and supported 10 projects. In the last edition of 2022, 318 research projects involving 900 researchers were received, out of which 75 projects were funded. The graph shows the percentage of the funded projects according to the total number of applications received in each edition.
In total, in the 15 editions, 847 research projects were supported, involving 1678 researchers from 29 countries. The supported projects are equivalent to 26% of total applications, and are divided in the fields of Psychophysiology (51%), Parapsychology (30%) and both (19%).
Reflecting the increasing awareness of the BIAL Foundation, supporting research in psychophysiology and parapsychology within the international scientific community, the most significant numbers of applications, apart from Portugal, come from the UK, USA, and Italy.
The research funded by the BIAL Foundation in the areas of Psychophysiology and Parapsychology from 1994 to July 2022 has resulted in the publication of 1632 articles in indexed journals (in Scopus or Web of Science), 1404 of which in journals with an average impact factor of 4.1 and 301 in journals with an impact factor greater than 5. By July 2022, there was a substantial number of citations (35.256), with 486 publications cited more than 20 times.
Globally, the researchers supported by the BIAL Foundation published 3190 scientific papers, chapters, book chapters, conference abstracts and master and doctoral theses.
A study conducted by Cordeiro, Marinho, Guedes and Sousa, presented at the 13th Symposium of the BIAL Foundation, held in Porto from April 6 to 9, 2022, gives an overview of the changes in the number of publications from 1994 to March 2022 and can be accessed at the following link. In addition, the Foundation provides an open online database that can be accessed by the scientific community and by the general public here.
Find here the lists of supported projects per Grant Edition.
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