Nova SBE had a 100% success rate in the projects submitted to the competitive 2nd joint call of the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) and the Aga Khan Foundation (overall success rate was 10%). We were granted three projects as coordinator and will participate in a fourth project as partner institution. These projects are coordinated by Pedro Vicente – Infant and Maternal Health: Reducing maternal and infant mortality in Guinea-Bissau; Ana Balcão Reis –Mentoring for success: Experimental Evidence on Migrant College Students; and Antonieta Cunha e Sá –Payments for mangrove ecosystem services in Mozambique. Antonieta also participates in the project The importance of shark populations and sustainable ocean use for human well-being in Cape Verde and São Tomé and Príncipe, West Africa, coordinated by Fciências.ID - Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciência, da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa. In total, Nova SBE secured about  650 k € in this call.