• Sub-programme “A”: Support for preparing to participate in the Horizon 2020, ECSEL, AAL and EUROSTARS programmes
  
• Sub-programme “B”: fostering consortium-building cooperation between Hungarian partners of projects selected in the international assessment in relation to the Danube Region Strategy
  

In the fourth assessment round, between 11 December 2016 and 10 April 2017, 14 proposals were submitted with a total funding request of HUF 30 million. 7 of these met the formal requirements and were considered suitable for professional assessment.

The professional assessment and ranking was performed in Sub-programme “A” by the designated expert group against the assessment criteria set out in the call and in Sub-programme “B” by an international panel of experts against the international assessment criteria specified in the given programme. Subsequently, the Innovation Board recommended two proposals for rejection and five proposals for funding to the President of the NRDI Office based on the assessment results and ranking. In the fourth round in sub-programme “A” 3 businesses, in sub-programme “B” 2 universities received altogether around HUF 10.3 million in non-refundable funding from the NRDI Fund.

Prior to this, in the first assessment round of the call 9 projects were awarded HUF 14.6 million, in the second round 4 projects were awarded nearly HUF 9 million and in the third round 11 projects were awarded around HUF 14.5 million in funding. Now, with the awards decisions of the fourth round, 27.4% of the 2016-2017 budget has been spent.

Accordingly, in sub-programme “A” around HUF 35.5 million and in sub-programme “B” HUF 24.2 million is still available from the original budgets.

FUNDED PROJECTS 2017, Round 4

Funding organisation: NRDI Office
Source: NRDI Fund
Date of decision: 13 July 2017