Purpose of the call:
- to promote Hungarian-Korean research and development cooperation,
- to boost the competitiveness of Hungarian businesses;
- to enhance Hungarian participation at the international level;
- to stimulate RDI cooperation between the research and industrial sectors by supporting innovative near-market projects resulting in the development of a prototype, new product, technology or service;
- to promote the domestic utilisation of participation in international R&D projects.
Submission of proposals
To submit your proposal, log in through the Single Sign-on (SSO) interface at www.palyazat.gov.hu and complete the online form. The finalised proposal must be submitted together with a duly signed declaration verifying the electronic submission of the proposal, in line with the Guidelines.
Proposals are accepted electronically from the official opening of the online form until 16:00 CET, 30 June 2025.
Eligible applicants
The international project can only be implemented through a pre-agreed international consortium involving two Hungarian partners and at least one Korean partner. Within the Hungarian consortium, it is a requirement that a for-profit partner and a research partner collaborate.
Proposals under this call can only be submitted in the form of a consortium.
The call is open to legal entities with registered seat in Hungary or with registered seat in the European Economic Area and a branch office in Hungary, more specifically:
- businesses and other economic organisations with legal personality specified in the call, provided that they have at least two completed approved 365-day business years and maintain double-entry accounting;
- non-profit companies as defined in the call, provided that they have at least one completed approved 365-day business year, maintain double-entry accounting and are considered as research and knowledge-dissemination organisations under Article 2(83) of Commission Regulation (EU) No 651/2014;
- non-profit and other not-for-profit organisations as defined in the call, which are designated as state-recognised, non-public higher education institutions (denominational or private higher education institutions) in Annex 1 of Act CCIV of 2011 on National Higher Education and are also classified as research and knowledge-dissemination organisations under Article 2(83) of Commission Regulation (EU) No 651/2014;
- budgetary organs and budgetary entities, qualifying as research and knowledge-dissemination organisations under Article 2 (83) of Council Regulation 651/2014/EU.
Eligible activities
- Applied research
- Experimental development
- Basic research
- Procurement of fixed assets
- Procurement of immaterial assets
- Activities supporting research and development projects
- Travel-related activity
Duration of the project
Maximum project duration is 36 months.
Projects cannot start before 1 October 2025.
Total budget and maximum amount of funding
Total budget: HUF 400 million
The amount of non-refundable funding is minimum HUF 30 million and maximum HUF 80 million per project.
Total expected number of funded projects: 5 to 13.
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