Submission of applications
To submit an application, log in to the Participant Portal (Pályázati e-ügyintézés) at www.palyazat.gov.hu and complete the online application form. Unless executed using a qualified electronic signature, the hard copy of the statement should also be delivered personally or sent by regular mail no later than 3 days after the electronic submission.
Applications are accepted (electronically) from the announcement of the online application form.
Submission of applications is continuous.
Applications received in 2021 by the following deadlines will be assessed together:
- 31 August 2021
- 29 October 2021
- 31 December 2021
Eligible applicants
For this Call applications may be submitted by private individuals with residence in Hungary.
Eligible activities
The following activities are eligible for funding in the programme:
- Application for Hungarian patent, utility model or plant variety protection
- Application according to the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)
- Commencing national/regional procedures under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)
- Validation of European patents
- Application for domestic trademark registration
- Application for EU trademark registration
- Application for international trademark registration
- Application for domestic design registration
- Application for Community design registration
One applicant may receive funding for multiple activities, but as only one activity can be funded per application, the applicant will have to submit a separate application for each activity. One applicant can apply for funding several times during the term of this Call, but may receive funding only once for a given activity with the same subject of intellectual property protection. Within one calendar year, one applicant may receive funding for the registration of up to five domestic, EU and international trademarks (i.e. under V. Application for domestic trademark registration, VI. Application for EU trademark registration, VII. Application for international trademark registration, combined).
Available funds
Total available budget is HUF 100 million. Funding intensity is 100%.
Maximum funding per application: HUF 100,000 to HUF 7,500,000 depending on the activity.
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.
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 2021 calls for domestic RDI proposals financed from the NRDI Fund are set out in the annual Programme Strategy adopted by the Government.
(Government Decree 1077/2021. (II. 27.):
https://net.jogtar.hu/jogszabaly?docid=A21H1077.KOR&txtreferer=00000001.txt)
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) |
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NRF | RF | |||||
GINOP Plusz (EDIOP) (2021-2027) |
Economic Development and Innovation Operational Programme Plusz |
136,670 | - |
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NRDI Fund (2021-2027) |
National Research, Development and Innovation Fund |
182,292 |
- |
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ITM | Ministry for Innovation and Technology | 11 | - | |||
RRF | Recovery and Resilience Facility | 151,621 | - | |||
SUM |
|
481,583 | - |
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NRF= non-refundable RF= refundable |
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Source |
Calls for proposals |
Budget 2021 (Bn HUF) |
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NRF | RF | |||||
GINOP Plusz, ITM 2021-2027 |
Support of business RDI activities |
Stimulating business research, development and innovation GINOP Plusz-2.1.2-21 |
136,67 | - |
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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 | - |
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The implementation of developments promoting innovative electrochemical storage of surplus carbon-free electricity 2021-2.1.1-EK |
6 | - |
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RRF 2021 |
Recovery and Resilience Facility | Infrastructure and skills development for practice-oriented higher education RRF-2.1.2-21 |
79,956 | - | ||
Establishment and complex development of the National Laboratory RRF-2.3.1-21 |
71,665 | - | ||||
Innovation Sub-fund 2021 |
Support for market-driven RDI projects | Support for market-driven RDI projects 2020-1.1.2-PIACI KFI |
50 | - |
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KKV Start programme | KKV Start Innovation | 8 | - |
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Fast track programme | Fast track 2020-1.1.5-GYORSÍTÓSÁV |
2 | - |
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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 2021-1.1.1-IPARJOG |
0,4 | - | |||
University Innovation Ecosystema |
University Innovation Ecosystem 2019-1.2.1-EGYETEMI ÖKO |
2 | - |
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International programmes | 2021-1.2.2-EU_KKV (100 M HUF); 2020-1.2.3-EUREKA (1,4 Bn HUF); 2019-2.1.7-ERA-NET (~1,7 Bn HUF); 2019-2.1.3-NEMZ_ECSEL (350 M HUF); 2019-2.1.2-NEMZ (453 M HUF); 2020-1.2.1-GYAK (50 M HUF); 2021-1.2.1-EIT-KIC (500 M HUF); 2021-1.2.4-TÉT (200 M HUF); 2021-1.2.5-TÉT-IPARI-RU (160 M HUF) | 4,5 | - | |||
Market entry |
Market entry | 1 | - |
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Investment in the future Fund | Investment in the future 2020-1.1.6-JÖVŐ |
7 | - |
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Alkalmazott kutatói hálózat fejlesztése | Participation in the National Network of Applied Research Institutes 2021-1.1.2-AKH |
1,63 | - |
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Research Sub-fund 2021 |
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 |
0,60 | - |
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New National Excellence Programme – Call for Research Scholarship Applications for Graduate Students ÚNKP-21-2 |
- | |||||
New National Excellence Programme – Call for Research Scholarship Applications for PhD Students ÚNKP-21-3 |
1 | - | ||||
New National Excellence Programme – “Power Up Science!” Call for Research Scholarship Applications for Doctoral Candidate sand Postdoctors ÚNKP-21-4 |
0,832 | - | ||||
New National Excellence Programme – Call for Scholarship Applications for Bolyai+ Higher Education Teachers and Researchers ÚNKP-21-5 |
1,40 | - | ||||
New National Excellence Programme – “Power up your Talent!” Call for Research Scholarship Applications for New Higher Education Students ÚNKP-21-6 |
0,168 | - | ||||
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 |
13 | - | |||
Patronage Programme | Science Patronage Programme MEC_21 |
1 | - | |||
Funding for research groups with achievements of internationally outstanding impact | Funding for research groups with achievements of internationally outstanding impact |
1 | - | |||
Forefront – Research Excellence Programme | Forefront – Research Excellence Programme KKP_21 |
3 | - | |||
Cooperative Doctoral Programme | Cooperative Doctoral Programme KDP-2021 |
8,762 | - |