Altogether 255 project proposals with a total claim of HUF 3.8 billion was submitted to the Postdoctoral excellence programme (PD_17) announced in 2017 with a total budget of HUF 1.5 billion which was ultimately distributed among 99 funded projects.

The scheme proportionally fits in the domestic portfolio of competitive calls and aims to co-finance the employment costs of researchers, who have recently obtained their doctoral degree, thus helping them to stay in the research sector and build their career by joining a research group and cooperating with experienced researchers..

In 2016 the NRDI Office significantly reformed the funding system of postdoctoral research and fellowships in order to clearly separate research grants from fellowship grants (which only finance wage-like costs) within the various funding schemes, in line with international practice.

Of the proposals submitted for the Postdoctoral excellence programme, accepting the recommendation of the decision preparation bodies, the President of the NRDI Office selected 99 project proposals for funding with the following distribution between fields of science:

At an open forum in February 2017 the President of the NRDI Office summarised the lessons drawn from the assessment process of basic 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