Available budget
In the period 2019–2023, the NRDI Office allocates a combined budget of HUF 5.8 billion for the sub-programme of the thematic research projects (K_19) and the sub-programmes of thematic research projects based on Hungarian–Austrian or Hungarian–Slovenian bilateral cooperation (ANN_19 and SNN_19) from the NRDI Fund.
Amount of funding
According to the call, no more than HUF 48 million for maximum 48 months can be requested in the case of Hungarian–Austrian projects (ANN_19) and HUF 36 million maximum 36 months in the case of Hungarian–Slovenian projects (SNN_19). If the duration of the project is shorter, requested funding should be decreased on a pro rata temporis basis.
Duration of the project
The maximum project duration is 36 or 48 months respectively, depending on the concerned relation. Projects shall commence on 1 December 2019. The earliest date for reporting costs is the project start date specified in the funding agreement.
Submission of applications
Complying with its legal obligation, the NRDI Office enables applicants to submit their applications exclusively electronically. In this case, the documents required in Point “I” of the call to be submitted by regular mail / with electronic signature must be signed electronically as specified in Point “I” of the call and attached to the application on the Online Application Portal by the deadline for electronic submission, that is, by 9 May 2019 at 16:00 (CET).
Please note that all documents required to be submitted by regular mail/with electronic signature must be submitted in the same way, that is, all documents must be submitted to the NRDI Office either by regular mail or electronically provided with electronic signature.
In the case of regular mail, the submission is successful if the proposal was finalised electronically by the applicant and approved by the head of the host institution by the deadline for E-submission, and the documents required in Point “I” of the call were submitted by regular mail to the Customer Service of the NRDI Office by the deadline. In the case of electronic submission, the submission is successful if the proposal was finalised electronically by the applicant and approved by the head of the host institution by the deadline for E-submission, and the electronically signed versions of the documents required in Point “I” of the call were submitted by regular mail / with electronic signature through the Online Application Portal.
All applications must be submitted in English irrespective of the field of science.
Submission and evaluation of the project proposals are governed by the Lead Agency system: if the funding requested by the Hungarian party exceeds the funding requested by the Austrian or Slovenian collaborative partner, Evaluation is performed by the NRDI Office. If the foreign partner requests higher amount of funding, the proposal is to be submitted and evaluated by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) or the Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS), depending on the concerned relation.
Eligible applicants
Principal investigators can apply jointly with the host institution which has to be a Hungarian based
- higher education institution, research centre, research institution, budgetary organ or an institution thereof having legal personality if it qualifies as a research organisation under the law;
- business company which has at least two completed business years, maintains double-entry accounting and is not subject to the simplified entrepreneurial tax (EVA) or small taxpayers’ itemized lump sum tax (KATA), if engaged in R&D activities; or
- non-profit organisation if it qualifies as a research organisation under the law.
Throughout the entire implementation period the principal investigator shall be a worker of the host institution under an employment contract, civil service contract, works contract or other contract aimed at performing work.
No more than one proposal can be submitted to this call, and FK_19 or PD_19 proposals are not allowed in parallel. KKP_17 or KKP_19 grantees are not eligible either.
Eligible objectives and actions
All activities are eligible that are performed by the participating domestic researcher(s) or research group(s) in order to attain the primary goals set out in the discovery research plan submitted to the NRDI Office and elaborated on the basis of the research and work plan outlined in the call for thematic research projects based on international cooperation.
Customer service contacts:
email: nkfialap@nkfih.gov.hu
phone: +36 (1) 795 9500
Personal appointments (pree-booked only): H-1077 Budapest, Kéthly Anna sq. 1. (2nd floor)
Customer Service hours of operation: Monday-Thursday from 9 a.m to 4 p.m., Friday from 9 a.m. to 12.00 a.m.
From the call titled thematic research projects based on Hungarian–Austrian cooperation or Hungarian–Slovenian cooperation (ANN_19, SNN_19) 7 project proposals won a total funding of HUF 235 million.
As for proposals based on cooperation with Slovenian (SNN_19) and Austrian partners (ANN_19), after the respective decisions of the co-funding organisations i.e the Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS) and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), total HUF 138,2 million in funding was awarded for 4 projects under the first, and total HUF 96.8 million for 3 proposals under the latter.
| |
Number of submitted proposals (pcs) |
Number of funded projects (pcs) |
Total amount claimed (in HUF thousands) |
Total amount awarded (in HUF thousands) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANN_19 | 8 | 4 | 287 610 | 138 208 |
| SNN_19 | 23 | 3 | 797 666 | 96 804 |
| Sum | 31 | 7 | 1 085 276 | 235 012 |
FUNDED PROJECTS ANN_19
Funding organisation: NRDI Office
Source: NRDI Fund
Date of decision: 14 November 2019
| Evaluation panel |
Project code |
Principal investigator/Project title/Research organisation |
Project period (month) |
Amount of awarded funds (in HUF thousands) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| International cooperation panel | 132225 | András Czirók: complex biomaterials: engineering mimetic epithelial tissue environments for lung cancer research (Eötvös Loránd University) | 48 | 47 992 |
| International cooperation panel | 132280 | Zsolt Török: Biophysical aspects of mild heat stress in T-cell signaling (Biological Research Centre Szeged) | 48 | 47 970 |
| International cooperation panel | 132442 | Péterné Tölgyessy: Inward and outward FDI in Austria and Hungary – an international comparison (Centre for Economic and Regional Studies) | 36 | 9 942 |
| International cooperation panel | 132718 | Judit Molnár: "On Ice" in Strasshof. The History and Memory of Hungarian Jewish Forced Labourers in Vienna and its Vicinity (1944-1945) (University of Szeged) | 48 | 32 304 |
FUNDED PROJECTS SNN_19
Funding organisation: NRDI Office
Source: NRDI Fund
Date of decision: 14 November 2019
| Evaluation panel |
Project code |
Principal investigator/Project title/Research organisation |
Project period (month) |
Amount of awarded funds (in HUF thousands) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| International cooperation panel | 131558 | István Szilágyi: Delamination of layered materials and structure-dynamics relationship in green solvents (University of Szeged) | 36 | 35 910 |
| International cooperation panel | 132625 | György Kiss: Geometries, graphs, groups and their links (Eötvös Loránd University) | 36 | 24 894 |
| International cooperation panel | 132999 | Tibor Hortobágyi: Nuclear transport defects in frontotemporal dementia (University of Szeged) | 36 | 36 000 |
To ensure value-based professional evaluation of proposals arriving in large quantities from the fields of discovery and applied research and innovation, to assess professional reports of funded projects and to prepare policy opinions, the NRDI Office intends to expand its expert pool in all fields of expertise.
Professionals who have registered in the database of the NRDI Office can become responsible contributors, as independent peer-reviewers, to the evaluation process in which the professional quality, novelty content and commercialisation perspectives of the proposals as compared to the requested funding should be assessed as core considerations.
The registration process can be initiated through the registration form of the NRDI Office’s website. Registration is continuously open.
Requested data within the expert registration form include:
- personal data, contact details (necessary for contracting review assignments);
- classification of professional skills and competencies and research areas (to get review invitations fine-tuned to your field of expertise);
- topics of the previously reviewed proposals;
- present and past jobs, interest networks (in order to pre-screening of conflicts of interest in a given rview assignment), education, scientific titles, most important publications and intellectual works demonstrating your professional experience;
- language skills.
Professionals once registered in the database of experts may be invited by the NRDI Office to review submitted proposals, to assess professional reports of funded projects and to contribute to policy opinions.
Each proposal is reviewed by several independent experts at the same time. Experts selected from the database to review proposals, to assess professional reports and facilitate expert opinions will be contracted by the NRDI Office on a case-by-case basis. When concluding such a contract experts must declare that the review assignment is not obstructed by any conflict of interest whatsoever. Depending on the competition type, written expert reviews must be prepared in 15-28 work days and submitted electronically via the online review portal of the NRDI Office.
FURTHER INFORMATION
For further information contact at phone +36 1 795 9500 or email at szakerto_regisztracio@nkfih.gov.hu