Foram divulgados os resultados do concurso FCT Call SR&TD Project Grants 2020 e a Nova SBE foi distinguida com quatro projetos de investigação como coordenadora: Pedro Brinca - Economics Structural transformation, Inequality and Macroeconomy; Pedro Oliveira – Management Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Health Impact: Creating a Resilient System; Pedro Portugal – Economics Labor market sorting, social connections, and peer effects; and Pedro Vicente – Economics Integrating Rural Migrants in Cities - A Field Experiment in Mozambique. Adicionalmente, a Nova SBE garantiu ainda  dois projetos como parceiros: Judite Gonçalves com o projeto ealth determinants and needs of children on the move in a pandemic context: A longitudinal study for Lisbon and Tagus Valley Region, coordenado pela NOVA Medical School; e Rui Mota com o projeto coPeak4Fish: an integrated approach to support self-sustaining fish populations downstream hydropower plants, coordenado pelo Instituto Superior Técnico. No total, a Nova SBE assegurou 776.528,09 €.