Available budget
In the period 2020-2024, the NRDI Office allocates a combined budget of HUF 6.6 billion for the sub-programme of the thematic research projects (K_20) and the sub-programmes of thematic research projects based on Hungarian–Austrian or Hungarian–Slovenian bilateral cooperation (ANN_20 and SNN_20) 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_20) and HUF 36 million maximum 36 months in the case of Hungarian–Slovenian projects (SNN_20). 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 between 1 September and 1 December 2020. 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 “J” of the call to be submitted by regular mail / with electronic signature must be signed electronically as specified in Point “J” of the call and attached to the application on the Online Application Portal by the deadline for electronic submission, that is, by 24 February 2020 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 “J” 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 “J” 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 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_20 or PD_20 proposals are not allowed in parallel. Current KKP grantees are not eligible either.
Eligible objectives and actions
Project proposals can cover discovery research in any fields of science, regardless of thematic priority, if otherwise the application meets the conditions laid down in the call. 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.
As for proposals based on cooperation with Austrian (ANN_20) and Slovenian partners (SNN_20) evaluated by the NRDI Office, after the respective approval of the co-funding organisations, a total HUF 144,0 million in funding was awarded for 3 projects under the first, and total HUF 243.8 million for 7 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_20 |
14 |
3 |
646 184 | 143 964 |
| SNN_20 | 31 |
7 |
1 096 320 | 243 777 |
|
SUM |
45 |
10 |
1 742 504 | 387 741 |
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| Evaluation panel |
Project code | Principal investigator/Project title/Research organisation | Project period (month) |
Amount of awarded funds (in HUF thousands) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| International cooperation panel | 134433 | Péter Németh: Cryogenic cave carbonates (Research Center of Natural Sciences) | 48 | 47 996 |
| International cooperation panel | 135107 | György Vámosi: Studying novel forms of interleukin receptor signaling: from single molecule resolution to the genomic level (University of Debrecen) | 48 | 48 000 |
| International cooperation panel | 135291 | Attila Szűcs: Activity-dependent differentiation and fate-determination of induced human neurons (Eötvös Loránd University) | 48 | 47 968 |
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| Evaluation panel |
Project code | Principal investigator/Project title/Research organisation | Project period (month) |
Amount of awarded funds (in HUF thousands) |
| International cooperation panel | 134497 | Viktória Venglovecz: Significance of exocrine-endocrine pancreatic interactions in health and disease (University of Szeged) | 36 | 35 706 |
| International cooperation panel | 134635 | Zoltán Czajlik: Early Iron Age Land Use between the Alps and the Danube; comparative landscape archaeological analyses of Süttő and Poštela site-complexes (Eötvös Loránd University) | 36 | 35 975 |
| International cooperation panel | 135335 | György Ferenczy: A COVALENT APPROACH AGAINST ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE (Research Center of Natural Sciences) | 36 | 34 698 |
| International cooperation panel | 135636 | György Vankó: Developing tender X-ray spectroscopy probes to tackle problems in materials science and ultrafast science (Wigner Research Centre for Physics) | 36 | 35 874 |
| International cooperation panel | 135643 | Gábor Tardos: Graph Theory and Combinatorial Scientific Computing (Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics) | 36 | 35 164 |
| International cooperation panel | 135825 | Petra Dunkel: Photochemistry toolbox for discovery of advanced ATP-competitive chemical probes with Topoisomerase IIalpha inhibitory activity (Semmelweis University) | 36 | 36 000 |
| International cooperation panel | 135918 | Zoltán Kónya: Synthesis and Application of Visible Light-Responsive Π-Conjugated Polymer–Semiconducting Oxide Nanoassemblies for Photocatalytic Detoxification of Wastewaters (University of Szeged) | 36 | 30 360 |
The proposals are submitted and assessed in accordance with the Lead Agency principle: if the amount requested by the Hungarian partner exceeds the amount requested by the Slovenian partner, the assessment is carried out by the NRDI Office. If, however, the foreign partner requests more funding, the Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS) receives and evaluates the joint project proposal. Any funding from the NRDI Fund is subject to the decision of the minister for science policy coordination (hereinafter: “Sponsor”), so even if a Hungarian partner is assessed positively by ARRS, the approval of the Sponsor is still needed for the joint project to be funded.
Based on the proposal by the Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS) as evaluating Lead Agency and the decision of the Hungarian Sponsor dated 10 September 2020, two thematic research projects implemented in Hungarian–Slovenian cooperation (SNN_20) have been selected for funding.
FUNDED PROJECTS
Funding organisation: Ministry for Innovation and Technology
Source: NRDI Fund
Date of decision: 10 September 2020
| Projekt azonosító száma |
Vezeto kutató/Projekt címe/Kutatóhely |
Futamido (hó) |
Odaítélt támogatás (EFt) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 134368 | Benczúr András: Mesterséges Intelligencia módszerek építményszerkezetek modellezésében (Számítástechnikai és Automatizálási Kutatóintézet) | 36 | 35 994 |
| 134356 | Stefan Toepfer: ARRS Lead Agency: »FunContrAPest: Novel Fungal proteins for biopesticidial Control of challenging invasive alien Agricultural Pests« (Szent István Egyetem) | 36 | 33 000 |
The results of the other research projects implemented in Hungarian–Slovenian cooperation, that are assessed by the NRDI Office:
Winners of the thematic research project proposals based on Hungarian–Austrian or Hungarian–Slovenian international cooperation (ANN_20, SNN_20)
The proposals are submitted and assessed in accordance with the Lead Agency principle: if the amount requested by the Hungarian partner exceeds the amount requested by the Austrian partner, the assessment is carried out by the NRDI Office. If, however, the foreign partner requests more funding, the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) receives and evaluates the joint project proposal. Any funding from the NRDI Fund is subject to the decision of the minister for science policy coordination (hereinafter: “Sponsor”), so even if a Hungarian partner is assessed positively by FWF, the approval of the Sponsor is still needed for the joint project to be funded.
Based on the proposal by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) as evaluating Lead Agency and the decision of the Hungarian Sponsor dated 25 August 2020, two thematic research projects implemented in Hungarian–Austrian cooperation (ANN_20) have been selected for funding.
The results of the other research projects implemented in Hungarian–Austrian cooperation, that are assessed by the NRDI Office, is expected to be announced later, following the decision of the Austrian co-financing partner organisation.
FUNDED PROJECTS ANN_20
Funding organisation: Ministry for Innovation and Technology
Source: NRDI Fund
Date of decision: 25 August 2020
| Project code |
Principal investigator/Project title/Research organisation |
Project period (month) |
Amount of awarded funds (in HUF thousands) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 135082 | Tibor Erős: Functioning of vertebrate metacommunities in dynamic riverine landscapes: an innovative approach using eDNA metabarcoding (Centre for Ecological Research) | 48 | 47 903 |
| 135606 | Gábor Rétvári: Dependable Dataplane for the Cloud (Budapest University of Technology and Economics) | 48 | 48 000 |
Based on the proposal by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) as evaluating Lead Agency and the decision of the Hungarian Sponsor dated 14 October 2020, one thematic research project implemented in Hungarian–Austrian cooperation (ANN_20) has been selected for funding.
FUNDED PROJECTS ANN_20
Funding organisation: Ministry for Innovation and Technology
Source: NRDI Fund
Date of decision: 14 October 2020
| Project code |
Principal investigator/Project title/Research organisation |
Project period (month) |
Amount of awarded funds (in HUF thousands) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 136027 | Nagy István: A gyulladásos hő hiperalgézia kialkulása: a mitogén és stressz aktivált kináz 1 szerepe az elsődleges érző idegsejtekeben (Debreceni Egyetem) | 48 | 47 998 |
The results of the other research projects implemented in Hungarian–Austrian cooperation, that are assessed by the NRDI Office:
Winners of the thematic research project proposals based on Hungarian–Austrian or Hungarian–Slovenian international cooperation (ANN_20, SNN_20)
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
The NRDI Fund’s Programme Strategy 2023 supports the implementation of Hungary’s new innovation strategy, the John von Neumann Programme, which focuses on connecting universities, research institutions and the economy. The priority objective of the Programme Strategy 2023 is to contribute to improving the Hungarian performance in the areas of human resources (number of researchers, number of PhD students, number of STEM students in higher education), number and share of innovator enterprises (number and share of SMEs implementing product and/or process innovation) and intellectual property (IP) (patents, trademarks, designs).
The table below shows the calls announced under the NRDI Fund for the period 2021–2027 and their amounts, broken down by year.
| 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | ||||
| NRDI budget (Bn HUF) |
191,384 | 143,829 | 78,670 | |||
| Name of the scheme/ Call for proposal (2021) |
Budget (Bn HUF) |
Name of the scheme/ Call for proposal (2022) |
Budget (Bn HUF) |
Name of the scheme/ Call for proposal (2023) |
Budget (Bn HUF) |
|
| Innovation Sub-fund 2021-2023 |
Support for market-driven RDI projects Support for market-driven RDI projects 2020-1.1.2-PIACI KFI |
59,06 | Support for market-driven RDI projects Support for market-driven RDI projects 2021-1.1.3-PIACI KFI |
50,00 | Support for Innovation Projects in Focus Areas 2023-1.1.1-PIACI_FÓKUSZ |
35,00 |
| Fast track programme Fast track 2020-1.1.5-GYORSÍTÓSÁV |
3,00 | Fast track programme Fast track 2021-1.1.4-GYORSÍTÓSÁV |
12,85 | Fast track programme (Call for proposal will be announced later) |
2,00 | |
| Intellectual property Support of activities fostering the domestic and international protection of intellectual property with the aim of facilitating the utilisation of such intellectual property 2020-1.1.3-IPARJOG, 2021-1.1.1-IPARJOG |
0,40 | Intellectual property Support of activities fostering the domestic and international protection of intellectual property with the aim of facilitating the utilisation of such intellectual property 2020-1.1.3-IPARJOG, 2021-1.1.1-IPARJOG |
0,40 | Intellectual property Support of activities fostering the domestic and international protection of intellectual property with the aim of facilitating the utilisation of such intellectual property 2020-1.1.3-IPARJOG, 2021-1.1.1-IPARJOG |
0,50 | |
| International programmes Support for participation in the ECSEL joint EU initiative 2019-2.1.3-NEMZ_ECSEL; Support for participation in joint EU initiatives 2019-2.1.2-NEMZ; Funding for Hungarian Summer Internship programmes for hungarian university students studying in the UK, Germany or Austria 2020-1.2.1-GYAK; Support for Hungarian participation in EIT KIC 2021-1.2.1-EIT-KIC; Support to bilateral science and technology (S&T) cooperations 2021-1.2.4-TÉT; Support for Hungarian participation in the applied research and development programme in Hungarian–Russian cooperation 2021-1.2.5-TÉT-IPARI-RU; Call for proposals: Support of Hungarian organisations successfully participating in joint international ERA-NET COFUND and EJP COFUND programmes 2019-2.1.7-ERA-NET; Support for Hungarian participation in the EUREKA programme 2020-1.2.3-EUREKA; Horizon Europe Accelerator booster call 2021-1.2.2-EU_KKV; Call for proposals to foster Hungarian participation in the Horizon Europe programme and other joint programmes of the European Union 2021-1.2.3-EU_KP; Support for the use of international and national research infrastructures 2021-4.1.2-NEMZ_KI; Support for Hungarian participation in the applied research and development programme in Hungarian–Moroccan cooperation 2021-1.2.6-TÉT-IPARI-MA |
3,50 | International programmes Call for proposals: Support of Hungarian organisations successfully participating in joint international ERA-NET COFUND and EJP COFUND programmes 2019-2.1.7-ERA-NET; Support for Hungarian participation in the EUREKA programme 2022-1.2.4-EUREKA; Horizon Europe Accelerator booster call 2021-1.2.2-EU_KKV; Call for proposals to foster Hungarian participation in the Horizon Europe programme and other joint programmes of the European Union 2021-1.2.3-EU_KP; Support for the use of international and national research infrastructures 2021-4.1.2-NEMZ_KI; Support for Hungarian participation in the applied research and development programme in Hungarian-Turkish cooperation 2022-1.2.6-TÉT-IPARI-TR; Support for summer internships for Hungarian students studying abroad 2022-1.2.3-GYAK; Support for Hungarian participation in the applied research and development programme in Hungarian–Uzbek cooperation 2022-1.2.2-TÉT-IPARI-UZ; Support for Hungarian participation in the applied research and development programme in Hungarian–Korean cooperation 2022-1.2.5-TÉT-IPARI-KR |
6,00 | International programmes Call for proposals to foster Hungarian participation in the Horizon Europe programme and other joint programmes of the European Union 2021-1.2.3-EU_KP; Support for the use of international and national research infrastructures 2021-4.1.2-NEMZ_KI; Support to bilateral science and technology (S&T) cooperations; Support for Hungarian participation in the EUREKA programme 2022-1.2.4-EUREKA; Support for participation in the Horizon Europe Key Digital Technologies (KDT) partnership 2022-1.2.8-KDT |
6,10 | |
| Investment in the future Fund Investment in the future 2020-1.1.6-JÖVŐ |
7,00 | Centres of excellence Establishing and developing centres of excellence 2022-1.1.1-KK |
20,70 | Incubator Support Scheme (Call for proposal will be announced later) |
5,00 | |
| Development of an applied research network Participation in the National Network of Applied Research Institutes 2021-1.1.2-AKH |
1,63 | Startup Programme Startup Programme 2022-1.1.2-STARTUP |
4,06 | Research Excellence ‘Proof of Concept’ Programme (Call for proposal will be announced later) |
3,00 | |
| University Innovation Ecosystema University Innovation Ecosystema 2019-1.2.1-EGYETEMI ÖKO |
4,00 | |||||
| KKV Start programme KKV Start Innovation 2020-1.1.1-KKV START |
12,00 | |||||
| Research Sub-fund 2021-2023 |
Thematic Excellence Programme (National-Health-Defence) Thematic Excellence Programme 2021 TKP2021 |
75,00 | ||||
| New National Excellence Programme | 0,600 | New National Excellence Programme | 0,828 | New National Excellence Programme | 0,710 | |
| Call for Research Scholarship Applications for Undergraduate Students ÚNKP-21-1 |
Call for Research Scholarship Applications for Undergraduate Students ÚNKP-22-1 |
Call for Research Scholarship Applications for Undergraduate Students ÚNKP-23-1 |
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| Call for Research Scholarship Applications for Graduate Students ÚNKP-21-2 |
Call for Research Scholarship Applications for Graduate Students ÚNKP-22-2 |
Call for Research Scholarship Applications for Graduate Students ÚNKP-23-2 |
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| Call for Research Scholarship Applications for PhD Students ÚNKP-21-3 |
1,00 | Call for Research Scholarship Applications for PhD Students ÚNKP-22-3 |
1,20 | Call for Research Scholarship Applications for PhD Students ÚNKP-23-3 |
1,029 | |
| “Power Up Science!” Call for Research Scholarship Applications for Doctoral Candidate sand ÚNKP-21-4 |
0,832 | “Power Up Science!” Call for Research Scholarship Applications for Doctoral Candidate sand ÚNKP-22-4 |
1,052 | “Power Up Science!” Call for Research Scholarship Applications for Doctoral Candidate sand ÚNKP-23-4 |
0,902 | |
| Call for Scholarship Applications for Bolyai+ Higher Education Teachers and Researchers ÚNKP-21-5 |
1,40 | Call for Scholarship Applications for Bolyai+ Higher Education Teachers and Researchers ÚNKP-22-5 |
0,70 | Call for Scholarship Applications for Bolyai+ Higher Education Teachers and Researchers ÚNKP-23-5 | 0,60 | |
| “Power up your Talent!” Call for Research Scholarship Applications for New Higher Education Students ÚNKP-21-6 |
0,168 | “Power up your Talent!” Call for Research Scholarship Applications for New Higher Education Students ÚNKP-22-6 |
0,220 | “Power up your Talent!” Call for Research Scholarship Applications for New Higher Education Students ÚNKP-23-6 |
0,189 | |
| Cooperative Doctoral Programme Cooperative Doctoral Programme KDP-2021 |
4,894 | Cooperative Doctoral Programme Cooperative Doctoral Programme KDP-2021 |
2,832 | Cooperative Doctoral Programme Cooperative Doctoral Programme KDP-2023 |
5,070 | |
| Postdoctoral and Young researchers’ excellence programme and Call for thematic research projects Postdoctoral and Young researchers’ excellence programme and Call for thematic research projects (OTKA) PD_21, FK_21, K_21, ANN_21, SNN_21 |
12,90 | Postdoctoral and Young researchers’ excellence programme and Call for thematic research projects Postdoctoral and Young researchers’ excellence programme and Call for thematic research projects (OTKA) PD_22, FK_22, K_22, ANN_22, SNN_22 |
13,50 | Postdoctoral and Young researchers’ excellence programme and Call for thematic research projects Postdoctoral and Young researchers’ excellence programme and Call for thematic research projects (OTKA) PD_23, FK_23, K_23, SNN_23 |
13,50 | |
| Forefront – Research Excellence Programme Forefront – Research Excellence Programme KKP_21 |
3,00 | Forefront – Research Excellence Programme Forefront – Research Excellence Programme KKP_22 |
3,00 | Forefront Plus – Research Excellence Programme (Call for proposal will be announced later) |
5,00 | |
| Patronage Programme Science Patronage Programme MEC_21 |
1,00 | Building the Selye János Student Lab network Building the Selye János Student Lab network 2022-3.1.1-DIÁKLABOR |
2,00 | |||
| National Laboratories Sub-fund 2022 |
National Laboratories Establishment and complex development of the National Laboratories 2022-2.1.1-NL |
26,60 | ||||