The Research Grant Hungary call for proposals, managed by the NRDI Office and launched on 23 May 2024 by the Ministry of Culture and Innovation aims primarily to encourage excellent researchers at their most dynamic creative stage, who are at the forefront of international science and who, as leading researchers in their field, contribute to Hungary’s emergence as a research, development and innovation hub of the region by implementing promising research projects. The programme further seeks to attract to Hungary researchers from the leading international scientific communities working in the industries related to the focus area innovation projects.

The Research Council of Hungary assessed the proposals for compliance with the selection criteria of the call for proposals and made a proposal to the minister responsible for science policy coordination on the ones to be fund. The decision on funding was made by the deputy state secretary for innovation, acting as mandated by the minister responsible for science policy coordination, on 21 August 2024 and on 12 December 2024. Pursuant to such decision, 5 outstanding research proposals will be granted a total of HUF 4,324,190,000 in non-refundable funding from the NRDI Fund.