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.
NRDI Fund
Thematic Excellence Programme 2020 – Funded institutions
Publication date: 18 August 2020
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Startup Factory
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.
Publication date: 23 July 2020
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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
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KKV START Innovation
The call for proposals (hereinafter: “Call”) promotes the innovation activity of micro and small enterprises by supporting their market-oriented innovation projects.
Publication date: 29 May 2020
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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:
Publication date: 29 May 2020
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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.
Publication date: 29 May 2020
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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.
Publication date: 29 May 2020
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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
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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
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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.
Publication date: 27 May 2020
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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.
Publication date: 27 May 2020
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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).
Publication date: 27 May 2020
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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.
Publication date: 27 May 2020
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Open Innovation (2019-1.4.1-NYÍLT), funded project
Drawing on international examples, the call for proposals aims to promote the involvement of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in tackling research and innovation issues arising at large companies but not related to their core activities, thus strengthening cooperation and knowledge transfer between them, as well as enhancing the competitiveness of the Hungarian SME sector.
Publication date: 26 May 2020
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Support to utilise international research infrastructures (2019-2.1.6-NEMZ_KI), funded projects
The call announced in Junel 2019 aims to support Hungarian researchers to avail research and measurement services offered by international research infrastructures (RIs), particularly those in which Hungary holds full-fledged membership. The domestic contribution to participation is provided from the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund under the 2019-2.1.6-NEMZ_KI call.
Publication date: 26 May 2020
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Support to Hungarian participation in the EUREKA programme (2019-2.1.1-EUREKA), funded projects, 2nd round
The call announced in April 2019 aims to support Hungarian SMEs in participating in the EU-funded EUREKA programme which promotes international R&D cooperation projects. The domestic contribution to participation is provided from the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund under the 2019-2.1.1-EUREKA call.
Publication date: 25 May 2020
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Support of activities fostering the domestic and international protection of intellectual property to facilitate industrial utilisation (IPARJOG_15), funded projects in 11th round
Further project proposals won funding for novelty search, patent acquisition and patent maintenance projects aimed at the protection of intellectual property under industrial property law, and for activities focusing on the evaluation of intellectual property from the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund.
Publication date: 23 April 2020
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Notice in relation to the pandemic caused by COVID-19
Notice in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic on the extension of the duration of projects funded from the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund, on the performance of mandatory commitments and monitoring indicators and on the extension of certain deadlines set out in the funding agreements.
Publication date: 09 April 2020
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Submission deadline for Hungarian-Indian S&T call is prolonged
A modified submission deadline applies for the Call for applied research and development projects in Hungarian–Indian cooperation (2019-2.1.13-TÉT_IN), the prolonged deadline is 23 March 2020, 14:00 CET.
Publication date: 10 March 2020
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Call for “OTKA” thematic research projects
The call aims to provide funding to experienced, talented researchers with an independent research group eager to continue their successful discovery research topic, having outstanding publication performance, and internationally acclaimed for their expertise in their field of science. The call is to promote cooperation between domestic research groups and their foreign partners, strengthen the international embeddedness of Hungarian science, and increase the international recognition of domestic researchers and research institutions.
Publication date: 20 December 2019
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