The Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society was rated Very Good in the evaluation of R&D Units 2017/2018 by Portugal’s scientific research agency Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT). With 15 integrated researchers and 6 ongoing research projects, CEPS is the only R&D Unit in Portugal specializing in the fields of Political Thoery and Applied Ethics. CEPS is currently the R&D Unit in the University of Minho and the third in Portugal with the highest funding/researcher ratio.