The Thematic Excellence Programme 2020 provides nearly HUF 43.9 billion to 27 scientific institutions (higher education institutions and public research institutes) for 92 thematic research projects from the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund.
This year’s programme integrates the Programme for Higher Education Institutions 2018-2019 and the Thematic Excellence Programme 2019. This way, the new integrated funding scheme for the year 2020 was open to applicants that received funding under one of these previous programmes.
The 2020 programme supports the implementation of thematic research projects based on the professional excellence of higher education institutions and public research institutes in order to
- develop a product, technology or service with a significant scientific or technical novelty;
- make the resulting product, technology or service commercially viable;
- improve the system of research criteria;
- attract more young people to research careers;
- increase the international embeddedness of the Hungarian research community;
- strengthen the research, development and innovation focus;
- ensure the social, economic and environmental use of research results and provide support for related initiatives;
- facilitate partnering with other actors in the RDI segment;
- increase the commercial or social use of the product, technology or service resulting from the thematic research project.
FUNDED INSTITUTIONS
Source: NRDI Fund
Date of decision: 13 August 2020
| Name of beneficiary institutions |
Amount of funding (HUF) |
|---|---|
| University of Veterinary Medicine |
900 000 000 |
| Budapest Business School |
100 000 000 |
| Corvinus University of Budapest |
600 000 000 |
| Budapest University of Technology and Economics |
2 600 000 000 |
| University of Debrecen |
6 400 000 000 |
| University of Dunaújváros |
500 000 000 |
| Eötvös Loránd University |
5 400 000 000 |
| Gál Ferenc College |
70 000 000 |
| University of Kaposvár |
757 692 310 |
| University of Miskolc |
1 700 000 000 |
| National University of Public Service |
333 200 000 |
| University of Pannonia |
1 500 000 000 |
| Pázmány Péter Catholic University |
327 408 420 |
| University of Pécs |
3 080 000 000 |
| Semmelweis University |
4 910 000 000 |
| Széchenyi István University |
1 550 000 000 |
| University of Szeged |
5 650 000 000 |
| Szent István University |
1 705 750 000 |
| Bay Zoltán Non-profit Ltd. for Applied Research |
1 520 000 000 |
| South Pest Central Hospital |
1 000 000 000 |
| Eötvös Loránd Research Network, Humanities Research Centre |
400 000 000 |
| Cereal Research Non-profit Ltd. |
250 000 000 |
| Mining and Geological Survey of Hungary |
406 000 000 |
| Institute for Hungarian Studies |
420 875 622 |
| National Agricultural Research and Innovation Centre |
520 189 760 |
| National Centre for Biodiversity and Gene Conservation |
599 960 000 |
| National Institute of Oncology |
979 730 250 |