Purpose of the call
- to promote Hungarian–Russian research and development cooperation,
- to increase the marketability of Hungarian businesses,
- to enhance Hungarian participation at the international level,
- to stimulate RDI cooperation between researchers and the business sector by supporting innovative near-market projects,
- to promote the domestic utilisation of participation in international R&D projects.
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. The finalised application form must be submitted together with a duly signed statement verifying the electronic submission of the application, in line with the Application Guidelines.
Project proposals can be submitted (electronically) from the activation of the online application form until 12:00 CET, 11 October 2021.
Eligible applicants
The implementation of the project requires the international cooperation of a consortium of at least one Hungarian and one Russian partner agreed in advance.
Applications to this call may be submitted both independently and 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, non-profit undertakings and other economic organisations having at least one completed business year, maintain double-entry accounting and are not subject to the small business tax (KATA);
- denominational or private higher education institutions accredited by the state, qualifying as research and knowledge-dissemination organisations under Article 2 (83) of Council Regulation 651/2014/EU;
- budgetary organs and budgetary entities, qualifying as research and knowledge-dissemination organisations under Article 2 (83) of Council Regulation 651/2014/EU.
Eligible project objectives
- Activities eligible for funding independently: experimental development, applied (industrial) research
- Activities not eligible for funding independently: procurement of material and immaterial assets, publicity activities, project coordination, market entry, protection of industrial property rights, overhead costs, travel related costs.
Duration of the projects
Implementation period of the project is maximum 36 moths.
Total available budget and maximum funding per project
Total available budget: HUF 160 million.
Foreseen number of funded projects: 4 to 5. This figure is indicative and may vary in accordance with funding requests submitted and funding received by the applicants.
The amount of non-refundable funding that may be applied for per application is minimum HUF 20 million and maximum HUF 50 million.
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