Recognising the international visibility of scientific results is gaining importance worldwide. It is measured by innovation scoreboards, university rankings and the citation index of scientific publications..

By announcing the excellence programme titled “Funding for research groups with internationally outstanding high impact results” (KH_17), having a total budget of HUF 1 billion, the NRDI Office incentivises domestic research groups to achieve new results which greatly advance their field of science and lay the groundwork for further research, and to present them in the most visible international scientific forums

The KH_17 call was designed to provide funding to 50 eligible research groups but only 30 applicants entered the competition and only 27 of them met the strict requirement to have an internationally significant publication achieving a citation index that belong to the top 5% of their scientific field within two years following publication. This call was also dominated by the Eötvös Loránd University with 7 funded projects. The ranking by scientific field is led by physics and neuroscience with 4-4 funded projects.

Of the proposals submitted for the KH_17 call, accepting the recommendation of the decision preparation bodies, the President of the NRDI Office selected 27 project proposals for funding as follows:

The unused budget remains available forfurther project proposals until 31 August 2017.

At an open forum in February 2017 the President of the NRDI Office summarised the lessons drawn from the assessment process of discovery research calls with the aim of preparing next year’s call, helping applicants to get prepared and upgrading the assessment process. Review of Competitive RDI Calls – programmes fostering discovery research (1 February 2017)

FUNDED PROJECTS

Funding organisation: NRDI Office
Source: NRDI Fund
Date of decision: 10 July 2017