Deadline for submission: 28 February 2018, 14:00 CET
The NRDI Office facilitates the social and economic utilisation of discovery research findings by defining strategic areas where Hungary has sufficient researcher excellence for performing the tasks, making it possible to reach the goals faster and more efficiently. These initiatives involve research activities addressing large-scale interdisciplinary scientific and technological challenges which, due to their comprehensive nature and volume, can be implemented in long-term cooperation between scientific, industrial and social stakeholders and decision-makers.
The call is open to the consortia of research and knowledge-dissemination organisations and businesses in the following areas:
- Sub-programme “A”: ELI Related Experimental Research National Programme
- Sub-programme “B”: Artificial Intelligence in Application National Programme
- Sub-programme “C”: Secure Society National Programme
- Sub-programme “D”: “Clean Drinking Water“ National Programme
- Sub-programme “E”: Protein Science and Applications National Programme
The call is financed from the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund.
Submission of applications
The applications have to be submitted electronically on the Participant Portal (Pályázati e-ügyintézés) which can be reached through the www.palyazat.gov.hu website. Along with the application finalised in the online application form, applicants have to submit a duly executed statement certifying the electronic submission of the application. Submissions are accepted from the announcement of the online application form as long as available funds last, but no later than 28 February 2018 at 14:00 (CET).
Eligible applicants
Sub-programmes “B”, “D” and “E” are exclusively open to consortia. The number of consortium partners varies by sub-programme and consortium partners have to be legal entities with registered seat in Hungary or with registered seat in the European Economic Area and a branch office in Hungary, more specifically:
- business companies, non-profit companies and other economic organisations specified in the call, provided that they have at least two completed business years, maintain double-entry accounting and are not subject to the simplified entrepreneurial tax (EVA) or the small taxpayers’ itemized lump sum tax (KATA)
- denominational or private higher education institutions accredited by the state, qualifying as research and knowledge-dissemination organisations under Article 2 (83) of Council Regulation 651/2014/EU
- budgetary organs and budgetary entities, qualifying as research and knowledge-dissemination organisations under Article 2 (83) of Council Regulation 651/2014/EU.
Eligible objectives and actions
Projects have to be implemented in the applicant’s seat, business premise or branch office in Hungary registered before the submission of the application. The following activities are eligible for funding independently:
- fundamental research
- applied (industrial) research
- experimental development
Activities not eligible for funding independently:
- coordination activities related to the project; publicity activities
- public procurement
- acquisitions of fixed assets
- procurement of immaterial assets
- construction, expansion, rearrangement, modernisation, renovation of buildings absolutely necessary for the purposes of the project, and the necessary developments of basic infrastructure
- activity related to industrial property rights in the case of SMEs and large companies.
Available budget
The total budget of the call is HUF 5 billion (HUF 1 billion for each sub-programme) financed from the NRDI Fund.
Duration of the project
Funded projects shall be implemented within min. 36, max. 48 months from project launch. Eligible project costs can be declared from the start date specified in the grant agreement. The applicant shall maintain the project results for 3 years.
Customer service contacts:
email: nkfialap@nkfih.gov.hu
phone: +36 (1) 795 9500
Personal appointments (pree-booked only): H-1077 Budapest, Kéthly Anna sq. 1. (2nd floor)
Customer Service hours of operation: Monday-Thursday from 9 a.m to 4 p.m., Friday from 9 a.m. to 12.00 a.m.
To ensure value-based professional evaluation of proposals arriving in large quantities from the fields of discovery and applied research and innovation, to assess professional reports of funded projects and to prepare policy opinions, the NRDI Office intends to expand its expert pool in all fields of expertise.
Professionals who have registered in the database of the NRDI Office can become responsible contributors, as independent peer-reviewers, to the evaluation process in which the professional quality, novelty content and commercialisation perspectives of the proposals as compared to the requested funding should be assessed as core considerations.
The registration process can be initiated through the registration form of the NRDI Office’s website. Registration is continuously open.
Requested data within the expert registration form include:
- personal data, contact details (necessary for contracting review assignments);
- classification of professional skills and competencies and research areas (to get review invitations fine-tuned to your field of expertise);
- topics of the previously reviewed proposals;
- present and past jobs, interest networks (in order to pre-screening of conflicts of interest in a given rview assignment), education, scientific titles, most important publications and intellectual works demonstrating your professional experience;
- language skills.
Professionals once registered in the database of experts may be invited by the NRDI Office to review submitted proposals, to assess professional reports of funded projects and to contribute to policy opinions.
Each proposal is reviewed by several independent experts at the same time. Experts selected from the database to review proposals, to assess professional reports and facilitate expert opinions will be contracted by the NRDI Office on a case-by-case basis. When concluding such a contract experts must declare that the review assignment is not obstructed by any conflict of interest whatsoever. Depending on the competition type, written expert reviews must be prepared in 15-28 work days and submitted electronically via the online review portal of the NRDI Office.
FURTHER INFORMATION
For further information contact at phone +36 1 795 9500 or email at szakerto_regisztracio@nkfih.gov.hu