As part of the EU-financed schemes providing refundable funding, the GINOP-8-1.1-16 loan scheme aims to promote the research, development and innovation activities of financially viable, revenue-driven businesses which are unable or hardly able to get sufficient funding from the money markets. In the framework of this scheme, applicants may receive loan on preferential terms to finance the development and marketing of new, marketable products, services, technologies and prototypes with significant intellectual added value. As a requirement laid down by the Managing Authority announcing the loan scheme, applicants have to obtain the endorsing RDI policy opinion of the NRDI Office.

In the 6th round the NRDI Office issued its opinion for 7 project proposals with a total funding request of nearly HUF 5 billion. The proposals were first assessed by anonymous experts against the assessment criteria set out in the call. Based on the anonymous evaluations, the proposals were then assessed by a group of seven experts with great professional competence and considerable experience in assessing proposals from the perspective of the credit scheme. Finally, the expert group recommended the President of the NRDI Office to issue endorsing opinions for the loan requests of each proposals. The actual requests can only be submitted for the project proposals after receipt of the endorsing RDI policy opinion.

The modified budget of the loan scheme is HUF 40.09 billion, of which the endorsing RDI policy opinion was given to 15 proposals with total loan request of HUF 14.6 billion in the previous rounds. The remaining budget is still open to project proposals which first have to be submitted to the NRDI Office for the RDI policy opinion.