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Three Hungarian SMEs among top 48 innovators nominated for EU prize

As another recent success of domestic SMEs, three Hungarian businesses were nominated among the top 48 projects in the Innovation Radar Prize 2017, one of the most prestigious innovation competitions of the European Commission. In the next two weeks a public vote will decide whether the Hungarian businesses make it to the final hosted by Budapest on 9 November.

Publication date: 12 October 2017

Robot designers and smart factory developers at the Industry 4.0 workshop in Budapest

Jointly organised by the National Research, Development and Innovation Office with DG for Regional and Urban Policy and DG for Research and Innovation of the Commission, a two-day conference and workshop started on 20 September in Budapest to promote cooperation, consortium building and matchmaking in Industry 4.0 type projects between SMEs, industrial companies and research centres from the Visegrád countries.

Publication date: 21 September 2017

Industrial R&D projects awarded in competitiveness and excellence programmes

The National Research, Development and Innovation (NRDI) Office has announced the results of its funding schemes aimed at fostering strategic long-term sustainable cooperation between research institutions and industrial actors.

Publication date: 05 September 2017

Expanding resources for researchers at all career stages – Funding decisions in 2017 discovery research calls

Over 400 researchers and research projects won more than HUF 11.5 billion (EUR 37.7 million) in funding in this year’s calls aimed at promoting discovery research announced by the National Research, Development and Innovation Office. In 2017 the NRDI Office announced its annual discovery research calls with an increased budget, introducing new funding schemes that are better adapted to researchers’ different career stages. This year 40% of the funds were awarded to researchers under 40 years of age.

Publication date: 26 July 2017

More than a hundred enterprises receive EUR 215 million to launch RDI projects with universities and research centres

Another 69 Hungarian R&D and innovation projects have won funding under the call of “R&D competitiveness and excellence cooperation programmes” within the Economic Development and Innovation Operational Programme (EDIOP/GINOP).

Publication date: 05 July 2017

“Frontline” call kicks off – The competitive project funding system is now completed with a call promoting internationally competitive excellence in research

The “Frontline” excellence programme is open to researchers who belong to the forefront of international scientific life based on their achievements in the past ten years and who exert internationally renowned, outstanding scientific impact in their field of science. Surveys conducted by the NRDI Office show that presently approximately 120 to 150 researchers meet these requirements in the field of discovery research in Hungary.

Publication date: 16 June 2017

New funding schemes for the international success of Hungarian researchers

How to set up further world-class scientific centres in Hungary? What are the chances of Hungarian researchers in the international competition for funding? These were the central topics of the researcher career forum jointly organised by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) and the National Research, Development and Innovation Office (NRDI Office) on 25 May 2017.

Publication date: 30 May 2017

New laser research facility in Szeged awaits researchers from all over the world

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán opened a cutting-edge laser research facility in Szeged, unique in the world enabling advanced research into the interaction between light and matter at a higher than ever intensity. The second implementation phase of the centre serving research in medical as well as material sciences was funded from a grant of over HUF 40 billion (EUR 130 million), 85% of which was provided from the EU's European Regional Development Fund. Total sum of the investment is HUF 80 billion (EUR 260 million).

Publication date: 25 May 2017

Kick-off – two winning Hungarian excellence programmes launched

The molecular diagnostics of tumour, inflammatory diseases and cardiovascular diseases highly endemic in Hungary, and the development of production and logistics systems essential for industrial operation will be the core focus areas of the two new domestic excellence centres which are among the ten winners in the “Teaming” action, the most prestigious one in the Widening pillar of the Horizon 2020 framework programme.

Publication date: 11 April 2017

Innovative thinkers of the region meet in Budapest

The large-scale innovation forum of the region has been organised for the second time in the Hungarian capital. At the strategic conference called think.BDPST, representatives of the economic, governmental, and scientific spheres discussed break-out points of the region in the fields of digital economy, the transformation of labour market, the education, healthcare, and pharmaceutics.

Publication date: 30 March 2017

New call encourages Hungarian students studying in UK universities to join internship programmes in their home country

The National Research, Development and Innovation Office has announced a new call for applications to encourage businesses operating in Hungary to involve Hungarian students studying in UK higher education institutions as summer interns, in their R&D and innovation activities.

Publication date: 21 March 2017

New agreement to involve French researchers in the utilisation of the laser centre in Szeged

József Pálinkás held talks on scientific relationships and cooperation between research institutions in Paris.

Publication date: 16 March 2017

New funding schemes and increased budgets to promote discovery research

Calls with increased budgets and with new funding schemes better tailored to researchers’ career stages have been announced by the National Research, Development and Innovation Office to promote discovery research in Hungary . The total budget of calls for project proposals in the field of fundamental research has increased to HUF 12 billion (EUR 39 million) this year.

Publication date: 23 January 2017

Massive increase in the support disbursed to Hungarian research centres and undertakings from the research, development and innovation fund this year

The support of 276 million EUR (83 billion forints) in total was granted to research centres and undertakings submitting applications to the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund in 2016, a substantially larger amount than in the previous years.

Publication date: 31 December 2016

Call for proposals to establish startup incubators in Central Hungary

The “Innovation Ecosystem” (ÖKO_16) call, which aims to strengthen the environment promoting the foundation, mentoring and training of startup businesses, is now open for applicants from the Central Hungary region with existing or newly planned business incubators.

Publication date: 08 December 2016

József Pálinkás emphasized the potential of researchers’ excellence to enhance innovation at the University of Cambridge

London, 24 October 2016 – The President of NRDI Office delivered a public lecture on the RDI system in Hungary at the prestigious Clare College of the University of Cambridge. During his visit to London, meeting high ranking government officials and university leaders and in relation to the planned reform of research funding in the UK, Pálinkás also addresses the outcome of the integration of research funding in Hungary completed in 2015.

Publication date: 25 October 2016

NRDI Office event directed attention to the public procurement of innovative solutions

The initiative also aims to strengthen innovative domestic enterprises
In connection to the EU initiative aimed at increasing the demand for innovative and sustainable building construction solutions and enhancing the successful participation of innovative SMEs in related public procurements, the National Research, Development and Innovation Office organised a professional forum in Szentendre, in the framework of its innovation services.

Publication date: 29 September 2016

EU experts urge enhanced economic utilisation of the considerable domestic scientific and innovation potential and increase of public spending on RDI

The ongoing reform of the domestic research, development and innovation system is acknowledged by the independent experts who, in their recent report made upon the invitation of the EU, also pointed out: further real structural changes can bring benefits to the economy by exploiting Hungarian scientific excellence and the presence of innovative international companies and also by increasing public RDI expenditure in a sustainable way.

Publication date: 20 September 2016

United Arab Emirates seek innovative cooperation with Hungary

Several innovation priorities of the United Arab Emirates coincide with the National Smart Specialisation Strategy of Hungary approved in autumn 2014. This fact provides an excellent basis for joining our research and development efforts in certain fields, said József Pálinkás, President of the NRDI Office while negotiating with Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansouri, U.A.E. Minister of Economy.

Publication date: 18 September 2015

Intensifying research cooperation with Mexico

Juan Manuel Valle Pereña, managing director of the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation (AMEXCID) and József Pálinkás, president of the National Research, Development and Innovation Office (NRDIO) discussed the institutional framework for scientific and technological (S&T) cooperation between Mexico and Hungary.

Publication date: 10 July 2015

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