



Under the call for thematic research projects based on international cooperation, fostering Hungarian research teams’ cooperation with Slovenian partners, by the deadline of 4 May 2023 28 project proposals were submitted with funding request close to HUF 1 billion in total. From research projects based on Hungarian–Slovenian cooperation (SNN_23) evaluated by the NRDIO and the Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS), 7 project proposals won HUF 247 million in total.
This year’s “OTKA” postdoctoral excellence programme (PD_23) granted support to 89 early-stage researchers with doctoral degrees for their wages and research-related costs for a period of three years with a total budget of approximately HUF 2.6 billion.
The call announced separately for researchers who obtained their scientific degrees not more than 12 years earlier (after 1 January 2011) (FK_23) enabled young researchers to team up and launch independent research projects in Hungary. This year 349 project proposals were submitted with a total funding request of HUF 13.96 billion. The call for thematic projects specifically targeted at early-stage researchers (FK_23) supported 87 new projects this year with a total funding of HUF 3.5 billion.