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 2016 the following projects are available:

1. Cartografando o lado escuro do universo
   Carlos Martins (IA-Porto)
2. Paleontologia cósmica: à procura de fósseis do universo primitivo
   Carlos Martins (IA-Porto)
3. Testes da universalidade das leis da física
   Carlos Martins (IA-Porto)
4. Multi-wavelengths analysis of low luminosity galaxies behind the Virgo cluster
   Ciro Pappalardo (IA-Lisboa)
5. A complete understanding of the Far InfraRed sources detected with the ESA mission Herschel
   Ciro Pappalardo (IA-Lisboa)
6. Dust as a probe of galactic environment
   Ciro Pappalardo (IA-Lisboa)
7. Detection of strongly lensed galaxies using Herschel
   Ciro Pappalardo (IA-Lisboa)
8. The importance of star-formation, black-hole accretion and other physical mechanisms into the Far-IR-radio correlation
   Ciro Pappalardo (IA-Lisboa)
9. Extending General Relativity using black holes
   Diego Rubiera-Garcia and Diego Sáez-Gómez (IA-Lisboa)
10. How old is the Universe?
    Diego Rubiera-Garcia and Diego Sáez-Gómez (IA-Lisboa)
11. Searching for signatures of dark energy in the laboratory
    Ippocratis Saltas (IA-Lisboa)
12. Chaotic dynamics in novel Hamiltonian systems
    Ippocratis Saltas (IA-Lisboa)
13. Chromospheric emission as a proxy for stellar activity: a tool for the detection of exoplanets
    João J. G. Lima and Pedro Figueira (IA-Porto)
14. Generic Interactions in Cosmology
    Nelson J. Nunes (IA-Lisboa)
15. Investigando as fontes variáveis detectadas pela missão espacial Gaia
    Sonia Antón (IA-Lisboa) and Catarina Lobo (IA-Porto)
16. Search for transiting planets in K2 light curves
    Susana C. C. Barros (IA-Porto)
17. Starburst activity and extended ionized gas emission in blue compact galaxies
    Polychronis Papaderos and Jean Michel Gomes (IA-Porto)
18. Simulações hidrodinâmicas de N-corpos em cosmologia: Formação e evolução das estruturas cósmicas
    António da Silva (IA-Lisboa)
19. Stellar populations for massive disk galaxies
    Fernando Buitrago (IA-Lisboa)
20. Using Hubble Space Telescope imaging to the full
    Fernando Buitrago (IA-Lisboa)
21. Exploring quasar properties at the Edge of the Universe
    José Afonso (IA-Lisboa)