After HUF 1 billion (EUR 3.3 million) last year, the call in 2018 spends a total budget of HUF 1.2 billion (nearly EUR 4 million) from the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund to help domestic research groups with internationally recognised scientific achievements to produce further results significantly contributing to the development of their scientific field and laying the groundwork for further research by implementing their project in a Hungarian host institution and by presenting such results in scientific forums ensuring the greatest possible visibility. The “Funding for research groups with significant achievements having an international impact” (KH_18) call is open to researchers and research groups who have a research facility in Hungary and who published original research findings after 1 January 2015 achieving a citation index accounting for the top 5 percent in the given field of science within two years from the date of publication.

This call completes the NRDI Office’s calls promoting discovery research which were announced in December 2017 for the current year, with a total budget of HUF 12 billion (EUR 39.3 million) that peers last year’s increased allocations for similar purposes.