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Budget of 20% more to increase the international visibility of Hungarian scientific achievements
Researchers and research groups whose findings generate major international impact can apply for support to their work. The call for proposals to increase the international visibility of Hungarian scientific results is announced again by the NRDI Office.
Publication date: 28 February 2018
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NRDIO-HCSO call for accurate provision of statistical data on research, development and innovation expenditure
The Presidents of the National Research, Development and Innovation Office (NRDI Office) and the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (HCSO) in their joint letter encourage institutions and businesses implementing research and development projects to provide statistical data in compliance with professional standards and in a credible manner.
Publication date: 23 February 2018
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Information Forum on 2018 RDI calls to promote domestic innovation

Businesses in Hungary have launched 2,000 new research, development and innovation projects since 2015 with domestic and EU funding of HUF 300 billion (EUR 1 billion). Annual funding provided to businesses from the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund to promote innovation doubled in 2017 as compared to 2015.

Publication date: 23 February 2018
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József Pálinkás: EUR 11 million support to the National Quantum Technology Programme
The National Quantum Technology Programme is implemented with the collaboration of academic, university and business research centres and receives a state subsidy of HUF 3.5 billion (EUR 11 million) over a four-year programme period – said József Pálinkás, President of the National Research, Development and Innovation (NRDI) Office on Wednesday at a press conference in Budapest.
Publication date: 22 February 2018
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Total submitted funding request is EUR 98 million, three times the available budget
The submission stage of the 2018 calls for the discovery research projects and the postdoctoral excellence programme was closed in mid-February. The total funding request under the call for researcher-initiated projects was almost triple than the HUF 9.4 billion (EUR 31 million) budget, with one third of the applicants being young researchers under 40 years of age, whereas the total funding request was twice the available budget of HUF 1.5 billion (EUR 4.9 million) in the postdoc programme.
Publication date: 21 February 2018
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Norwegian–Hungarian research and innovation conference addresses cooperation between businesses and research groups
Promising new opportunities may arise for Norwegian–Hungarian research cooperation in climate research, machine learning technologies and medicine, including cancer research, which will be the central topic of a two-day conference organised by the National NRDI Office and the Research Council of Norway (NRC) on 15-16 February in Budapest.
Publication date: 15 February 2018
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First foreign research groups start experiments in Szeged laser centre
Swiss and Greek research groups are the first foreign users of the laser facility in Szeged where laser equipment is already operational. The experiments may lay the foundations for the development of new applications in medicine, biology and pharmaceutical sciences.
Publication date: 13 February 2018
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Information day on the call for proposals promoting ELI-related research
The National Research, Development and Innovation Office held an information day for researchers and developers interested in the call related to the Szeged laser centre (sub-programme “A” of the National Excellence Programme) on 30 January.
Publication date: 13 February 2018
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Renewed system of calls for discovery research proposals in Hungary

Through increasing resources and new calls announced to support research excellence and projects of researchers below the age of 40, the NRDI Office has delivered on its 2017 promise to renew the system of calls for discovery research proposals – announced József Pálinkás at the RDI Calls Forum on 25 January. Such events are regularly organised by the NRDI Office to improve the quality of research and innovation proposals by sharing assessment experiences.

Publication date: 25 January 2018
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New NRDI Fund innovation calls with a total budget of EUR 200 million now open

Focus on businesses and practical application

As in the past two years, substantial funds are available for businesses from the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund in 2018, totalling at HUF 30 billion (EUR 98 million). Two other funding schemes with a total budget of HUF 31 billion (EUR 101.5 million) aim to stimulate research-industry cooperation to ensure that research results end up in innovative marketable products and technologies in fields such as artificial intelligence, protein research and clean water.

Publication date: 10 January 2018
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Disbursements to domestic businesses and research centres from the NRDI Fund further increased in 2017
Surpassing disbursements of in 2016, last year HUF 83.3 billion (EUR 273 million) in funding was disbursed from the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund to domestic businesses and research centres, and for international RDI cooperation projects and access to research infrastructures.
Publication date: 05 January 2018
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US observes ELI laser research programme of the European Union as good practice
A recent report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) on ultrafast lasers recommends the European programme of Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI), a pillar of which is based in Szeged, Hungary, to the attention of the US government as an example to learn from.
Publication date: 15 December 2017
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Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) Call for Proposals now open
The Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) call was announced on 22 November 2017. The NRDI Office organised an information event for the same day focusing on the novelties of the new MSCA work programme 2018-2020, including in particular the RISE sub-programme.
Publication date: 07 December 2017
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Szeged-based super laser facility forms part of European Research Infrastructure Consortium to be established with active EU support
The future of the ELI super laser centre in Szeged, the largest research infrastructure in Hungary, was the central topic of the meeting in Brussels attended by József Pálinkás, President of the National Research, Development and Innovation Office.
Publication date: 05 December 2017
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Hungary presents suggestions in Brussels on EU RDI funding beyond 2020
Hungary’s position paper on the content and strategic directions of the next research, development and innovation framework programme (FP9) to be launched in 2021, prepared with the contribution of a dedicated expert group, was presented in Brussels by József Pálinkás, President of the National Research, Development and Innovation Office. The 2014–2020 framework programme of the EU with an original budget of EUR 80 billion is still running with hundreds of calls.
Publication date: 30 November 2017
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Four Hungarian researchers won top European grant of EUR 2 million
Two project proposals in neuroscience, one in mathematics and one in political history received the Consolidator Grant of the European Research Council (ERC). In winning this top European grant, Hungarian researcher Judit Makara was also helped by the “ERC Booster” funding scheme of the NRDI Office.
Publication date: 30 November 2017
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Funding of HUF one billion to Hungarian research projects of high global impact in a new funding scheme
In a new research funding program, the National Research, Development and Innovation Office supports researchers achieving results of high international impact while working in Hungary and accumulating a scientific citation record within the top 5% in their discipline in two years of publication.
Publication date: 22 November 2017
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12 winners in the Frontline excellence programme, funding of nearly ten million euros awarded to cutting-edge, world class discovery research
In the “Frontline” Research Excellence Programme elaborated and announced for the first time by the National Research, Development and Innovation Office, 12 research group leaders have won grants of HUF 150 million to 300 million (nearly EUR 0.5 to 1 million) each, of a total budget of HUF 3 billion, to be spent in the coming five years on creating or expanding their research group and implementing a promising discovery research project in Hungary.
Publication date: 13 November 2017
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Brussels announces 30 billion euro funding programme for research and innovation projects
Further calls are to be announced in the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme between 2018 and 2020 which are also expected to further inspire the already outstanding domestic RDI performance, the SME Instrument, the cutting-edge basic research calls of the European Research Council and the “Spreading Excellence” sub-programme.
Publication date: 06 November 2017
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RDI scenario analysis and vision: updating the national RDI strategy
As the agency responsible for renewing the national RDI strategy, which determines the domestic RDI vision, the NRDI Office collaborates with the competent ministries and the stakeholders of the domestic RDI system to assess, the domestic and international trends that have emerged since the adoption of the document in 2013, their impact on the implementation and further instruments to improve the competitiveness of RDI activities.
Publication date: 31 October 2017
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