


The strategic goal of the John von Neumann Programme, announced in 2023, is to strengthen the economic, social and scientific impact of domestic research. To achieve this, in 2023 we reformed the system of criteria and evaluation of innovation proposals. As a next step in the process of consolidating the Hungarian research and innovation ecosystem, the Research Council of Hungary (RCH) – whose members were nominated by consensus by the Ministry of Culture and Innovation, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the HUN-REN Hungarian Research Network – decided to renew the Hungarian excellence-based scientific research funding system in order to enable the best Hungarian researchers and research groups to conduct their work under internationally competitive conditions.
In September 2020 the National Research, Development and Innovation Office will start a quality assured, two-semester e-learning course, developed in collaboration with the Ministry for Innovation and Technology (ITM).