National Research, Development and Innovation Office

Financed from the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund, the call for proposals aim to support R&D projects that help the early diagnosis and therapy of diseases that pose a significant public health risk.

Investment in the future

Publication date: 19 August 2020

Thematic Excellence Programme 2020 – Funded institutions

The Thematic Excellence Programme 2020 provides nearly HUF 43.9 billion to 27 scientific institutions (higher education institutions and public research institutes) for 92 thematic research projects from the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund.

Publication date: 18 August 2020

The call for applications (hereinafter: call) aims to enable business incubators to continue their activities essentially in line with the principles stated in previous calls and taking into account the lessons learnt in the programme. The programme is justified by the ongoing need to energize the startup ecosystem and facilitate innovative startup businesses with a high growth potential in Hungary, and by the persistent deficiency in the market that calls for state intervention.

Startup Factory

Publication date: 23 July 2020

Cooperative Doctoral Programme for Doctoral Scholarships

The Cooperative Doctoral Programme aims to increase the number of employees working in the RDI segment, primarily in mathematics, science, engineering and information technology, who are ready to extend their knowledge with the latest scientific research findings and committed to making use of their expertise to the benefit of society and the economy.

Publication date: 22 July 2020

The call for proposals (hereinafter: “Call”) promotes the innovation activity of micro and small enterprises by supporting their market-oriented innovation projects.

KKV START Innovation

Support for market-driven RDI projects

Financed from the NRDI Fund, the call aims to improve the competitiveness of businesses by supporting their research, development and innovation projects in the following schemes:

Funding for Hungarian Summer Internship programmes for hungarian university students studying in the UK, Germany or Austria

The call for proposals (hereinafter: “Call”) aims to provide summer internship opportunities for talented Hungarian university students studying in the United Kingdom, Germany or Austria, enabling them to participate in the research, development and innovation (RDI) activities of domestic businesses and recognized research groups at higher education institutions or research institutes. This way the interns can translate their theoretical knowledge into practice, learn how businesses and research groups work and contribute to their success with new ideas. They can also have an insight into job opportunities in the domestic labour market.

Support of activities fostering the domestic and international protection of intellectual property with the aim of facilitating the utilisation of such intellectual property

The call supports activities aimed at the domestic or international protection of intellectual property.

New National Excellence Programme – “Power Up Science!” Call for Research Scholarship Applications for Doctoral Candidates and Postdoctors

The call supports the research and creative activity and professional development of young researchers, predoctors, doctoral candidates and postdoctors showing outstanding academic or artistic performance with the expected result of a remarkable high quality publication or other scientific, technical or artistic work in the specific discipline, as well as the writing of the doctoral thesis (PhD, DLA).

Publication date: 28 May 2020

New National Excellence Programme – Call for Research Scholarship Applications for Graduate Students

The call supports the research activity and professional development of talented graduate (masters or undivided masters) students with the expected result of a publication (scientific paper or a TDK paper) or other scientific, technical or artistic work in the specific discipline while also preparing for their doctoral studies.

Publication date: 28 May 2020

New National Excellence Programme – “Power up your Talent!” Call for Research Scholarship Applications for New Higher Education Students

The call supports the research activity and professional development of talented prospective first-year students who have successfully fulfilled their high school studies, have performed well on a science competition for high school students, and have applied for a bachelor or undivided masters programme. It also aims to support research activity that goes beyond the standard academic requirements of the first-year students with the expected result of a literature review or other scientific, technical or artistic work relevant to the specific discipline.

New National Excellence Programme – Call for Scholarship Applications for Bolyai+ Higher Education Teachers and Researchers

The call supports teachers and researchers benefiting from the Bolyai János Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) and showing outstanding scientific and artistic research performance with any of the following expected results: utilising the research outcome within the host higher education institution; thesis supervisor activities that promote the next generation of researchers; active participation in building the institution’s academic school; promotion of cooperation between the HAS research groups and higher education institutions.

New National Excellence Programme – Call for Research Scholarship Applications for PhD Students

The call supports the research and creative activity and professional development of doctoral students and candidates showing outstanding academic or artistic performance with the expected result of a remarkable high quality publication or other scientific, technical or artistic work in the specific discipline while also preparing for writing the doctoral thesis (PhD, DLA).

New National Excellence Programme – Call for Research Scholarship Applications for Undergraduate Students

The call supports the research activity and professional development of talented students who have successfully fulfilled their high school studies and now pursue udergraduate studies with the expected result of a publication (scientific paper or a TDK paper) or other scientific, technical or artistic work in the specific discipline while also preparing for their masters studies.