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Achievements and successes – to be proud of
 
How does a good funding decision multiply success? The R&D community and society in general both expect promising projects financed from the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund to deliver against the objectives. Convincing performance, advanced research achievements, products of new developments, direct and indirect social benefits by the enabling power of innovation are at the focus of the highlighted gallery of completed projects all worthy of public attention.
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Letting the Spirit out of PET bottles
Back covers of plasma TV sets, egg trays, things made of foam-structured plastic. The selective collection of empty plastic bottles of mineral water and soft drinks has been a practice for some years now, but little do we know about the fate of these flasks. Participants in a project funded from the NRDI Fund worked out a method that is now applied also in industries: by altering certain properties of plastic waste material they give it a chance for a new life in so far unthinkable forms.
Publication date: 11 May 2017
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“We are heading for new directions in brain research”
Neuroscientist László Acsády, winner of an ERC Advanced Grant, the most prestigious grant of the European Research Council fostering discovery research, has set the objective to explore the so far virtually unknown links between the frontal lobe of the cerebral cortex – responsible for cognitive functions, movement coordination, speaking and in pathological cases also for epilepsy and Parkinson’s disease – and the thalamus. With the professor of the Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA KOKI) we discussed the directions of research in the forthcoming five years.
Publication date: 11 May 2017
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Addiction among Hungarian youth – facts and trends
Key indicators of smoking or consumption of alcohol and other drugs show improving trends –the survey project performed by the Institute of Sociology and Social Policy of Corvinus University of Budapest concludes, when comparing the latest information available on domestic conditions with all the data collected over the past 20 years, thus putting changes in addiction among Hungarian youth into an international context.
Publication date: 25 April 2017
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“I need to achieve something that mathematicians all over the world have been awaiting for a decade”
The research objective of academician László Pyber may also qualify as a milestone in classic and more recent branches of mathematics, such as computer science. The professor of the Alfréd Rényi Research Institute of Mathematics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences won an ERC Advanced Grant, one of the most prestigious grants of the European Research Council (ERC) supporting discovery research. László Pyber and his research team have been assisted by the bridging fund of NRDI Fund over the past one-and-a-half years on his way to the grant. We asked the professor about the winning research project.
Publication date: 12 April 2017
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Veszprém-based development to open up new perspectives on the world of particles
“Reinforcing the research infrastructure – internationalisation, networking” (GINOP-2.3.3-15) was among the first calls announced by the Ministry of National Economy on recommendation of the NRDI Office. The call with a total budget of HUF 20 billion (EUR 65.5 million) aims to strengthen domestic research infrastructure and facilitate Hungarian participation in international research infrastructures. It was also the first call in which the winners – from Debrecen, Keszthely, Pécs, Szeged and Veszprém– were announced in May 2016.
Publication date: 30 March 2017
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Tooth enamel helps identify historical migration routes
Publication date: 08 August 2016
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Efficient medicine may treat neuropathic pain
A successful clinical test has been completed by Meditop Gyógyszeripari Kft. which can bring the long-awaited breakthrough in the development of a special-purpose painkiller. The project was awarded almost HUF 500 million (EUR 1.59 million) from the Research and Technology Innovation Fund under a programme supporting market-oriented R&D activities, which was used by the Hungarian pharmaceutical company to prepare and conduct the Phase II clinical test of a new combination medicine for the treatment of neuropathic pain.
Publication date: 26 July 2016
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Drones and anti-drone interceptors are taught to think
As a result of the research-development project led by BHE Bonn Hungary Elektronikai Kft, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), more commonly, the drones will become faster, safer and capable of even more tasks. The internationally remarkable results of the three-year project were achieved with a funding of more than HUF 500 million (nearly EUR 1.5 million) received from the Research and Technology Innovation Fund.
Publication date: 26 July 2016
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