Available budget
In the period 2022-2026, the Ministry of Innovation and Technology allocates a combined budget of HUF13.5 billion from the NRDI Fund for the programme of the thematic research projects (K_22), the young researchers’ and postdoctoral excellence programmes (FK_22, PD_22) and the programmes of thematic research projects based on Hungarian–Austrian or Hungarian–Slovenian bilateral cooperation (ANN_22 and SNN_22).
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_22) and HUF 36 million maximum 36 months in the case of Hungarian–Slovenian projects (SNN_22). 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 November and 1 December 2022. 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 10 March 2021 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 to be submitted by regular mail / with electronic signature have been submitted through the Online Application Portal.
All applications must be submitted in English irrespective of the field of science.
For the program ANN_22, the applications must be submitted by the Hungarian party to the NRDI Office, and by the Austrian collaborative partner to the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). The project will be supported only in the case when both applications are supported by the respective agencies.
For SNN_22 applications, 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 Slovenian collaborative partner, evaluation is performed by the NRDI Office. If the Slovenian partner requests higher amount of funding, the proposal is to be submitted and evaluated by the Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS).
The applications submitted to the NRDI Office must describe in the work plan how the proposed research work is distributed between the Hungarian and the foreign parties. The research plan must explain the added value of the international collaboration, and in the case of SNN type applications the budget proposal of the foreign party must be attached as well.
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 institution or an institution thereof having legal personality that qualifies as a research and knowledge-dissemination organisation under Commission Regulation (EU) No 651/2014;
- 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) that qualifies as a research and knowledge-dissemination organisation under Commission Regulation (EU) No 651/2014;
- non-profit organisation that qualifies as a research and knowledge-dissemination organisation under Commission Regulation (EU) No 651/2014.
Throughout the entire implementation period the principal investigator shall be employed by the host institution under an employment contract, civil service contract, works contract or other contract aimed at performing work.
No more than one proposal may be submitted to this call, and K_22, FK_22 or PD_22 proposals are not allowed in parallel. Grantees of KKP projects with starting date after 31 December 2018 are not eligible either.
ANN and SNN grants may be awarded at multiple occasions; however, it is not allowed to have any overlap between the implementation period of such projects.
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 research projects of Hungarian–Austrian cooperation (ANN_22) evaluated by the NRDIO parallel with the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), and for those of Hungarian–Slovenian cooperation (SNN_22) evaluated by the NRDIO, after the approval of decisions by the respective co-funding organisations, a total HUF 248 million in funding was awarded for 6 projects under the first, and a total HUF 214 million for 6 proposals under the latter scheme. Among research projects of Hungarian–Slovenian cooperation evaluated by the Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS), 1 project proposal won HUF 36 million.
Number of submitted proposals (pcs) |
Number of funded projects (pcs) |
Total amount claimed (in HUF thousands) |
Total amount awarded (in HUF thousands) |
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ANN_22 | 35 | 6 | 1 461 651 | 248 491 |
SNN_22 | 29 | 6 | 997 975 | 213 839 |
Sum | 64 | 12 | 2 459 626 | 462 330 |
FUNDED PROJECTS ANN_22Funding organisation: Ministry of Culture and Innovation |
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Evaluation panel |
Project code |
Principal investigator/Project title/Research organisation |
Project period (month) |
Amount of awarded funds (in HUF thousands) |
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International cooperation panel | 142584 | Gábor Takács: Realising and probing quantum fields with ultra-cold atoms (Budapest University of Technology and Economics) | 48 | 47 968 |
International cooperation panel | 142613 | Gábor Újvári: Arctic climate and atmospheric dust variations during the late glacial period from remnants of the Laurentide Ice Sheet (Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences) | 48 | 33 970 |
International cooperation panel | 142950 | Péter Enyedi: Novel role of potassium channel regulator (KCNRG) in the pulmonary circulation (Semmelweis University) | 48 | 48 000 |
International cooperation panel | 143448 | Andrea Pődör: Mapping and modeling the crime perception gap (Óbuda University) | 36 | 22 565 |
International cooperation panel | 143995 | András Kosztolányi: Social and environmental determinants of successful parents (University of Veterinary Medicine Budapest) | 48 | 47 988 |
International cooperation panel | 144012 | Petar Lambrev: Teaming spectroscopy and quantum theory of Photosystem II (Biological Research Centre Szeged) | 48 | 48 000 |
FUNDED PROJECTS SNN_22Funding organisation: Ministry of Culture and Innovation |
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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 | 142258 | István Szilágyi: Nanoplastics in aqueous environments: structure, migration, transport and remediation (University of Szeged) | 36 | 35 880 |
International cooperation panel | 142441 | Imre Fertő: Greening and Sustainability of the Common Agricultural Policy: A Hungarian-Slovenian Comparison (Centre for Economic and Regional Studies) | 36 | 35 463 |
International cooperation panel | 143792 | Adrienn Tóthpál: Abundance and diversity of antimicrobial resistance genes in meat originating from Hungary and Slovenia (Széchenyi István University) | 36 | 36 000 |
International cooperation panel | 143868 | Adrienne Clement: Validation of catchment-scale contaminant transport models using stable isotopes and multi-element measurements (Budapest University of Technology and Economics) | 36 | 35 990 |
International cooperation panel | 143949 | Klára Hernádi: Fabrication of Z-scheme hybrid composites with CNTs for designing photocatalytic reactor to be applied in industrial wastewater treatment (University of Miskolc) | 36 | 36 000 |
International cooperation panel | 143972 | Zoltán Gribovszki: Microscale influence on runoff (University of Sopron) | 36 | 34 506 |
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 timing and the budget of the RDI funding schemes of the EU-financed operational programme (Economic Development and Innovation Operational Programme Plus - EDIOP Plus) has been approved by the Government within the Annual Development Plan (ADP), upon the proposal of the NRDI Office.
The 2022 calls for domestic RDI proposals financed from the NRDI Fund are set out in the annual Programme Strategy adopted by the Government.
(Government Decree 1414/2022. (VIII. 18.)
The table below shows the calls announced for the period 2021-2027 and their amounts, broken down by year.
Source |
Specificity |
Budget 2021 (Bn HUF) |
Budget 2022 (Bn HUF) |
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NRF | RF | NRF | RF | |||||
GINOP Plusz (EDIOP) |
Economic Development and Innovation Operational Programme Plusz |
136,670 | - | 5 | - |
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NRDI Fund |
National Research, Development and Innovation Fund |
189,384 | - |
143,8293 |
- |
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ITM (2021) | Ministry for Innovation and Technology (2021) | 11 | - | - | - | |||
RRF | Recovery and Resilience Facility | 153,141 | - | 39,750 | - | |||
SUM |
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490,195 | - | 188,5793 | - |
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NRF= non-refundable RF= refundable |
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Source |
Calls for proposals |
Budget 2021 (Bn HUF) |
Budget 2022 (Bn HUF) |
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NRF | RF | NRF | RF | |||||
GINOP Plusz ITM |
Support of business RDI activities |
Stimulating business research, development and innovation GINOP Plusz-2.1.2-21 |
136,67 | - | - | - | ||
Targeted R&D services |
Targeted R&D services to businesses, research sites, and research and knowledge-dissemination organisations GINOP Plusz-2.2.1-22 |
- | - | 5 | - | |||
Energetics Calls | The implementation of developments for the recovery, storage or market-based use of waste heat through innovative storage or conversion technologies 2021-2.1.2-HŐ |
5 | - | - | - | |||
The implementation of developments promoting innovative electrochemical storage of surplus carbon-free electricity 2021-2.1.1-EK |
6 | - | - | - | ||||
RRF 2021-2022 |
Practice-oriented higher education | Infrastructure and skills development for practice-oriented higher education RRF-2.1.2-21 |
81,476 | - | - | - | ||
National Laboratories | Establishment and complex development of the National Laboratory RRF-2.3.1-21 |
71,765 | - | - | - | |||
Higher education courses and services adapted to the core activities of adult education institution | Institutional innovation of higher education courses and services adapted to the core activities of adult education institutions and strengthening of adult learning activities in higher education RRF-2.1.3- 22 |
- | - | 39,750 | - | |||
Innovation Sub-fund 2021-2022 |
Support for market-driven RDI projects | Support for market-driven RDI projects 2020-1.1.2-PIACI KFI; 2021-1.1.3-PIACI KFI |
59,06 | - | 40,4673 | - |
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KKV Start programme | KKV Start Innovation 2020-1.1.1-KKV START |
12 | - | - | - |
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Fast track programme | Fast track 2020-1.1.5-GYORSÍTÓSÁV; 2021-1.1.4-GYORSÍTÓSÁV |
3 | - | 12,85 | - |
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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 |
0,4 | - | 0,3 | - | |||
University Innovation Ecosystema |
University Innovation Ecosystem 2019-1.2.1-EGYETEMI ÖKO |
2 | - | - | - |
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International programmes | 2019-2.1.3-NEMZ_ECSEL (2021); 2019-2.1.2-NEMZ (2021); 2020-1.2.1-GYAK (2021); 2021-1.2.1-EIT-KIC (2021); 2021-1.2.4-TÉT (2021); 2021-1.2.5-TÉT-IPARI-RU (2021) 2019-2.1.7-ERA-NET (2021. 2022); 2020-1.2.3-EUREKA (2021, 2022); 2021-1.2.2-EU_KKV (2021. 2022); 2021-1.2.3-EU_KP (2021, 2022); 2021-4.1.2-NEMZ_KI (2021, 2022); 2021-1.2.6-TÉT-IPARI-MA (2021), 2022-1.2.4-EUREKA (2022); 2022-1.2.6-TÉT-IPARI-TR (2022); 2022-1.2.3-GYAK (2022); 2022-1.2.2-TÉT-IPARI-UZ (2022), 2022-1.2.5-TÉT-IPARI-KR (2022) | 3,5 | - | 6 | - | |||
Centres of excellence |
Establishing and developing centres of excellence2022-1.1.1-KK | - | - | 20,7 | - |
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Startup Programme | Startup Programme | - | - | 8,5 | - | |||
Investment in the future Fund | Investment in the future 2020-1.1.6-JÖVŐ |
7 | - | - | - |
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Development of an applied research network | Participation in the National Network of Applied Research Institutes 2021-1.1.2-AKH |
1,63 | - | - | - |
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Research Sub-fund 2021-2022 |
Thematic Excellence Programme 2021 | Thematic Excellence Programme TKP2021 |
75 | - | - | - |
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New National Excellence Programme | New National Excellence Programme – Call for Research Scholarship Applications for Undergraduate Students ÚNKP-21-1; ÚNKP-22-1 |
0,60 | - | 0,828 | - | |||
New National Excellence Programme – Call for Research Scholarship Applications for Graduate Students ÚNKP-21-2; ÚNKP-22-2 |
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New National Excellence Programme – Call for Research Scholarship Applications for PhD Students ÚNKP-21-3; ÚNKP-22-3 |
1 | - | 1,2 | - | ||||
New National Excellence Programme – “Power Up Science!” Call for Research Scholarship Applications for Doctoral Candidate sand Postdoctors ÚNKP-21-4; ÚNKP-22-4 |
0,832 | - | 1,052 | - | ||||
New National Excellence Programme – Call for Scholarship Applications for Bolyai+ Higher Education Teachers and Researchers ÚNKP-21-5; ÚNKP-22-5 |
1,40 | - | 0,70 | - | ||||
New National Excellence Programme – “Power up your Talent!” Call for Research Scholarship Applications for New Higher Education Students ÚNKP-21-6; ÚNKP-22-6 |
0,168 | - | 0,22 | - | ||||
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 PD_22, FK_22, K_22, ANN_22, SNN_22 |
12,9 | - | 13,5 | - | |||
Patronage Programme | Science Patronage Programme MEC_21 |
1 | - | - | - | |||
Forefront – Research Excellence Programme | Forefront – Research Excellence Programme KKP_21, KKP_22 |
3 | - | 3 | - | |||
Cooperative Doctoral Programme | Cooperative Doctoral Programme KDP-2021 |
4,894 | - | 2,832 | - | |||
Strategic R&D centres |
Strategic R&D centres SKFM-2022 |
- | - | 3 | - | |||
Development of the Selye János Student Lab Network | Development of the Selye János Student Lab Network | - | - | 2 | - | |||
National Laboratories Sub-fund 2022 |
National Laboratories | Establishment and complex development of the National Laboratories 2022-2.1.1-NL |
- | - | 26,6 | - |