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Country Overview
- Overview of SSH System
  - Brief Description of the structure of the SSH research system
  - Overview of structure
- Policy challenges and developments
  - Main societal challenges translated into SSH research
  - New SSH policy developments
Policy Setting System
- Government policy making and coordination
- Impacting factors
- Important policy documents
- Thematic priorities at national level
- Important research programmes
- SSH research infrastructures
  - National infrastructures
  - International infrastructures
Funding System
- Overview of funding flows
- National public SSH research funding
- Private research funding
- Foundations/ not-for-profit funding
- European and international funding
Performing System
- Overview of the performers
- Higher Education Institutions
  - HEIs as education performers
  - HEIs as research performers
- Public Research Organisations
- Private research performers
- Research performance

Portugal

Population (2012): 10.541.840
Share of SSH researchers in all sectors, Head count (2010): 35,3%
Share of SSH researchers in the higher education sector, Head count (2010): 46,7%
Number of SSH researchers in the Higher Education Sector, Head count (2010): 30.203
Share of graduates (ISCED 5-6) in the humanities and arts as a share of all fields (2010): 8,2%
Share of graduates (ISCED 5-6) in the social science, business and law as a share of all fields (2010): 29,3%

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Thematic priorities at national level

On the basis of the 2009 call, as well as information available in official sites, it is possible to say that the main priorities refer to economy and finance, as well as education, skills, knowledge and life-long, cultural heritage, health and health systems, behaviour, cognition, identity, religion, language, multiculturalism.

Existence	Central Themes:
X	Behaviour, cognition,
	Competitiveness, Innovation
	Conflicts, peace, security and human rights within the EU and beyond
	Crime and Crime prevention (including drugs, organised crime etc.)
X	Cultural heritage (including preservation and conservation)
	Democracy, governance, accountability and responsibility
	Demography (Ageing, Fertility)
X	Economy and finance
X	Education, skills, knowledge and life-long learning
	Employment, Work, Working conditions
	Ethics
	Families, life-styles and well-being
	Gender, gender equality
	Globalisation
	Health and Health systems
	Identity, religion, language, multiculturalism
	International relations
	Migration
X	Social cohesion, exclusion, inequalities, poverty
	Sustainable development
	Urban and rural development
	Others

Emília Rodrigues Araújo (30-Apr-2013)