Pursuant to its goal of providing high-quality training in astrophysics and related subjects at all academic levels, the IA has set up a program of Scientific Initiation Studentships (BICs).

For 2019 the following projects were awarded:

1. Modeling galaxy cluster populations with Machine Learning methods
   Student: Alexandre Faria dos Santos
   Supervisor: António da Silva (IA-Lisboa)
2. ALMA serendipitous detections
   Student: Beatriz de Sousa Ataide da Silva
   Supervisor: Israel Matute, Ciro Pappalardo (IA-Lisboa)
3. Testes de modelos de energia escura a baixo e alto redshift
   Student: Beatriz Gamboa Pereira
   Supervisor: Carlos Martins (IA-Porto)
4. An online catalogue of exoplanet data
   Student: Beatriz Maria Franco Pinto
   Supervisor: João Faria (IA-Porto)
5. Explorando os dados científicos provenientes do satélite TESS da NASA
   Student: Barbara Maria Teixeira Basto Soares
   Supervisor: Tiago Campante (IA-Porto)
6. Titan atmosphere′s studies using VLT/UVES and Cassini space mission data
   Student: Constança Freire
   Supervisor: Pedro Machado, Gabriella Gilli (IA-Lisboa)
7. Time Domain Astronomy: Following the tessellation of the Universe
   Student: Daniel Filipe Baptista Gonçalves
   Supervisor: António da Silva, José Pedro Mimoso (IA-Lisboa)
8. Desenvolvimento de um sistema de aquisição de dados 2D com camara CCD para aplicação em metrologia óptica
   Student: Ines Meira Leite
   Supervisor: Alexandre Cabral (IA-Lisboa)
9. Search for transiting planets in K2 light curves
   Student: Maria Carolina de Barros Barbosa
   Supervisor: Susana Barros, Olivier Demangeon (IA-Porto)
10. SOAP united
    Student: Veridiano Moreno Marques
    Supervisor: Susana Barros, Sérgio Sousa (IA-Porto)

For 2019 the following projects were also available:

1. How (unorealistic are the errors provided for stellar parameters and chemical abundances?
   Vardan Adibekyan (IA-Porto)
2. What is the best way to characterize your exoplanet?
   Olivier Demangeon, João Faria (IA-Porto)
3. The phases of exoplanets
   Olivier Demangeon (IA-Porto)
4. Planet-Planet interactions
   Olivier Demangeon, Susana Barros (IA-Porto)
5. Asymmetric radial velocities for the detection of exoplanets
   João Faria (IA-Porto), Pedro Figueira (ESO / IA-Porto)
6. Solving Kepler′s equation
   João Faria (IA-Porto)
7. Simulação computacional e visualização de supercordas com GPUs e CUDA
   Carlos Martins (IA-Porto)
8. Espectroscopia e testes do Princípio de Equivalência com o ESPRESSO e o ELT
   Carlos Martins (IA-Porto)
9. Impacto cosmológico da observação da expansão do universo em tempo real
   Carlos Martins (IA-Porto)
10. The feedback effect of massive stars on galactic bubbles
    Pedro Palmeirim (IA-Porto)
11. Exploring the impact of modifications of gravity law on cosmological observables
    Noemi Frusciante (IA-Lisboa)
12. Gravity waves: a key process in the superrotation of Venus atmosphere?
    Gabriella Gilli, Pedro Machado (IA-Lisboa)
13. Gravity waves: a key process in Mars middle/upper atmosphere?
    Gabriella Gilli, Pedro Machado (IA-Lisboa)
14. Mars: Global Dust Storm dynamics′ study
    Pedro Machado, Gabriella Gilli (IA-Lisboa)
15. AGNs from Narrow-Bandphotometric Surveys
    Israel Matute (IA-Lisboa)
16. ATHENA simulations
    Israel Matute, Stergios Amarantidis (IA-Lisboa)
17. Como se constroi um Universo?
    Nelson Nunes (IA-Lisboa)
18. Fitting MANGA galaxies
    Ciro Pappalardo (IA-Lisboa)
19. AGN demography: a comparative study for different diagnostics
    Ciro Pappalardo, Israel Matute (IA-Lisboa)
20. Unveiling nebular emission in LEGA-C galaxies
    Ciro Pappalardo (IA-Lisboa)
21. Understanding the nature and properties of black holes
    Diego Rubiera-Garcia (IA-Lisboa)
22. Was Einstein 100% right?
    Diego Rubiera-Garcia (IA-Lisboa)
23. Testes Cosmológicos a modelos unificados de matéria e energia escuras
    Ismael Tereno, Diogo Castelão,Alberto Rozas-Fernández (IA-Lisboa)