A decision has been taken to provide domestic support for applied research and development projects in Hungarian–Moroccan cooperation in the framework of international bilateral science and technology (S&T) cooperation.

The Ministry for Culture and Innovation, through the National Research, Development and Innovation Office, using the funds earmarked from the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund, announced an open call for scholarship applications for the academic year 2023/2024 within the framework of the New National Excellence Programme (hereinafter: ÚNKP). The following scholarships are available: Scholarship for Bachelor Students, Research Scholarship for Masters Students, Research Scholarship for PhD Students, “Power Up Science!” Research Scholarship for Doctoral Candidates and Postdoctors, Bolyai+ Research Scholarship for Young Lecturers and Researchers, and “Power up your Talent!” Research Scholarship for New Higher Education Students.

A decision has been adopted on providing domestic funding to projects implemented in the framework of international science and technology (S&T) cooperation calls.

Eligible applicants: micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises and large companies, research centres, research & knowledge-dissemination organisations.

The call supports the development of the R&D infrastructure, which is quickly outdated due to the rapid advances in technology, in order to preserve and reinforce the international competitiveness of domestic research networks and higher education research centres, and to ensure outstanding research results. The call is closely linked to the measure aimed at upgrading research and knowledge-dissemination organisations to international standards, strengthening the research infrastructure that lags behind the more advanced countries of the European Union with a focus on excellence, and creating the necessary background.

As part of the EU-financed schemes providing refundable funding, the GINOP-8-1.1-16 loan scheme aims to promote the research, development and innovation activities of financially viable, revenue-driven businesses which are unable or hardly able to get sufficient funding from the money markets.

The European Commission has launched the Horizon Impact Award on 6 January 2022.

In the R&I Framework Programme, project funding is so far based on the reimbursement of actual costs. Despite simplified rules and improved IT support, this system remains complex and error-prone. One of the Commission’s initiatives with high potential to overcome this problem, and to simplify further, is the wider use lump sums.

On 27 January, the Commission received 1550 proposals for the €1 billion Green Deal call, demonstrating an impressive response from the research community in Europe and beyond.

On 7 October the European Commission launched a call for experts to help developing and deploying a methodology to monitor EU Missions. The aim is to enable the monitoring of EU Missions beyond Horizon Europe, looking at the contribution of other funding programmes at EU and national, as well as at regional and local level towards the achievement of Missions’ objectives.

The Clean Energy Transition Partnership (CETPartnership) is a multilateral and strategic partnership of national and regional research, development and innovation (RDI) programmes in European Member States and Associated Countries aiming to boost and accelerate the energy transition and to support the implementation of the European Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET Plan).

Driving Urban Transitions to a Sustainable Future (DUT) is the new programme of JPI Urban Europe starting in 2022. The DUT Partnership steps up the game to tackle urban challenges. Through research and innovation, we enable local authorities and municipalities, business, and citizens to translate global strategies into local action. We develop the skills and tools to make urban change happen and boost the urgently needed urban transformations towards a sustainable future with enhanced quality of life in cities.

The draft topics for the next round of calls of the Innovative Health Initiative (IHI) Partnership have been published on the IHI website. Details can be found on the IHI website under "future opportunities": https://www.ihi.europa.eu/apply-funding/future-opportunities . The drafts will become final once approved by the Governing Board, so applicants should check for changes to the text once the calls are launched. The expected opening date for the calls is end of July 2023.

The SESAR 3 Joint Undertaking (SESAR 3 JU) has published the second open call addressing exploratory research within the framework of its Digital European Sky research and innovation programme.

EIG CONCERT-Japan is delighted to announce the opening of its 10th joint call for proposals titled Solutions for Carbon-Neutral Cities. Proposals from interested researchers are now accepted, starting from Tuesday, May 23rd until Tuesday, August 1st (10.00 CEST) this year.

Concept notes with positive pre-qualifying opinion or that on reserve list.

Concept notes with positive pre-qualifying opinion or that on reserve list.