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New National Excellence Programme – Call for Research Scholarship Applications for Graduate Students
Date of announcement: 28 may 2020
Modified:
Next deadline for submission:
Deadline for E-submission: 30 june 2020
30 june 2020
Deadline for application via post office: only online submission
Submitter of proposal
Private person
Beneficiary groups
Other, e.g. a private person
Budget
HUF 600 000 000
Funding requests submitted:
HUF 918 M
Number of applications
857
Number of submitted applications:
896
Funds available per project
HUF 100 000 month/person
Project duration
5, 7, 12 months
Field of research activity
Fundamental research, Industrial research, Experimental development, Innovation, Investment in RDI, Protection of industrial property rights, Market entry
Evaluator of proposals
Host higher education institution
The call supports the research activity and professional development of talented graduate (masters or undivided masters) students with the expected result of a publication (scientific paper or a TDK paper) or other scientific, technical or artistic work in the specific discipline while also preparing for their doctoral studies.

Number of applicants: Up to 857 combined with the Call for Research Scholarship Applications for Undergraduate Students

Eligible applicants: Talented students participating in a graduate (masters or undivided masters) programme.

Available budget: Up to HUF 600,000,000 combined with the Call for Research Scholarship Applications for Undergraduate Students

Eligible activities: Scholarship (in any discipline)

Grant per applicant: HUF 100,000 /month/person

Grant period: Academic year 2020/2021

Grant disbursement period: 5, 7 or 12 months

Assessor and/or proposer: Host higher education institution

Grant report: At the end of the grant period applicants are required to submit a technical report. No financial report is needed.

New National Excellence Programme, Calls for applications in academic year 2020/2021 (ÚNKP-2020), funded institutions
In academic year 2020/2021, through the National Research, Development and Innovation Office, the Ministry for Innovation and Technology launches an open call for applications under the New National Excellence Programme (hereinafter: ÚNKP) to be funded from the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund for winning scholarships under “Research Scholarship Applications for Bachelor Students”, “Research Scholarship Applications for Masters Students”, “Research Scholarship for PhD Students”, “Power Up Science!” Research Scholarship Applications for Doctoral Candidates and Postdoctors and “Power up your Talent!” Research Scholarship for New Higher Education Students.

The ÚNKP supports the training of the next generations of Hungarian researchers and creative artists, helps them to start and stay on a research and artistic career, and provides research funding to internationally outstanding researchers and artists. The scholarship opportunities promote higher education and research excellence by supporting undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students, doctoral candidates, and young researchers and academics who perform effective research and creative activities at the higher education institution. The programme aims to foster scientific research and innovation taking researcher and creative excellence into consideration on all scientific and artistic areas.

Before the call deadline, a total of 4,537 applications were received by 24 higher education institutions involved in the programme. Following the assessment of the applications by such institutions, scholarships were granted to 1,915 applicants with the approval of the Ministry for Innovation and Technology. A total of HUF 3,698,690,580 was granted in funds covering the scholarships and an operating and research funding corresponding to 40% of the total of scholarships granted to the winning applicants of host higher education institutions.

New National Excellence Programme academic year 2020/2021, funded institutions

Funding organisation: Ministry for Innovation and Technology
Source: NRDI Fund
Date of decision: 31 August 2020

Name of higher education institution Granting document ID Number of supported projects Amount of funding
(grants + 40% for host institution, HUF)
Állatorvostudományi Egyetem ÚNKP-2020-01 22 33 320 000
Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem ÚNKP-2020-02 52 106 260 000
Budapesti Gazdasági Egyetem ÚNKP-2020-03 7 11 768 733
Budapesti Műszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem ÚNKP-2020-04 190 398 720 000
Debreceni Egyetem ÚNKP-2020-05 233 465 080 000
Eszterházy Károly Egyetem ÚNKP-2020-06 17 37 940 000
Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem
ÚNKP-2020-07 344 698 320 190
Károli Gáspár Református Egyetem ÚNKP-2020-08 20 37 380 000
Liszt Ferenc Zeneművészeti Egyetem ÚNKP-2020-09 26 38 420 000
Miskolci Egyetem
ÚNKP-2020-10 41 72 777 782
Magyar Képzőművészeti Egyetem ÚNKP-2020-11 26 23 800 000
Moholy-Nagy Művészeti Egyetem ÚNKP-2020-12 17 18 200 000
Nemzeti Közszolgálati Egyetem ÚNKP-2020-13 50 94 500 000
Óbudai Egyetem ÚNKP-2020-14 27 45 108 767
Pannon Egyetem ÚNKP-2020-15 42 69 720 000
Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem ÚNKP-2020-16 56 98 735 104
Pécsi Tudományegyetem ÚNKP-2020-17 157 335 860 000
Semmelweis Egyetem ÚNKP-2020-18 121 293 180 133
Soproni Egyetem ÚNKP-2020-19 17 24 360 000
Széchenyi István Egyetem ÚNKP-2020-20 31 60 239 871
Színház- és Filmművészeti Egyetem ÚNKP-2020-21 19 28 000 000
Szent István Egyetem ÚNKP-2020-22 111 194 040 000
Szegedi Tudományegyetem ÚNKP-2020-23 286 508 900 000
Testnevelési Egyetem ÚNKP-2020-24 3 4 060 000
Összesen
1915 3 698 690 580
Updated: 08 February 2021
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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 NRDI Fund’s Programme Strategy 2023 supports the implementation of Hungary’s new innovation strategy, the John von Neumann Programme, which focuses on connecting universities, research institutions and the economy. The priority objective of the Programme Strategy 2023 is to contribute to improving the Hungarian performance in the areas of human resources (number of researchers, number of PhD students, number of STEM students in higher education), number and share of innovator enterprises (number and share of SMEs implementing product and/or process innovation) and intellectual property (IP) (patents, trademarks, designs).

The table below shows the calls announced under the NRDI Fund for the period 2021–2027 and their amounts, broken down by year.

  2021 2022 2023
NRDI budget
(Bn HUF)
191,384 143,829 78,670
  Name of the scheme/
Call for proposal
(2021)
Budget
(Bn HUF)
Name of the scheme/
Call for proposal
(2022)
Budget
(Bn HUF)
Name of the scheme/
Call for proposal
(2023)
Budget
(Bn HUF)
Innovation Sub-fund
2021-2023
Support for market-driven RDI projects
Support for market-driven RDI projects
2020-1.1.2-PIACI KFI
59,06 Support for market-driven RDI projects
Support for market-driven RDI projects
2021-1.1.3-PIACI KFI
50,00 Support for Innovation Projects in Focus Areas
2023-1.1.1-PIACI_FÓKUSZ
35,00
Fast track programme
Fast track
2020-1.1.5-GYORSÍTÓSÁV
3,00 Fast track programme
Fast track
2021-1.1.4-GYORSÍTÓSÁV
12,85 Fast track programme
(Call for proposal will be announced later)
2,00
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
0,40 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
0,40 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
0,50
International programmes
Support for participation in the ECSEL joint EU initiative
2019-2.1.3-NEMZ_ECSEL;
Support for participation in joint EU initiatives
2019-2.1.2-NEMZ;
Funding for Hungarian Summer Internship programmes for hungarian university students studying in the UK, Germany or Austria
2020-1.2.1-GYAK;
Support for Hungarian participation in EIT KIC
2021-1.2.1-EIT-KIC;
Support to bilateral science and technology (S&T) cooperations
2021-1.2.4-TÉT;
Support for Hungarian participation in the applied research and development programme in Hungarian–Russian cooperation
2021-1.2.5-TÉT-IPARI-RU;
Call for proposals: Support of Hungarian organisations successfully participating in joint international ERA-NET COFUND and EJP COFUND programmes
2019-2.1.7-ERA-NET;
Support for Hungarian participation in the EUREKA programme
2020-1.2.3-EUREKA;
Horizon Europe Accelerator booster call
2021-1.2.2-EU_KKV;
Call for proposals to foster Hungarian participation in the Horizon Europe programme and other joint programmes of the European Union
2021-1.2.3-EU_KP;
Support for the use of international and national research infrastructures
2021-4.1.2-NEMZ_KI;
Support for Hungarian participation in the applied research and development programme in Hungarian–Moroccan cooperation
2021-1.2.6-TÉT-IPARI-MA
3,50 International programmes
Call for proposals: Support of Hungarian organisations successfully participating in joint international ERA-NET COFUND and EJP COFUND programmes
2019-2.1.7-ERA-NET;
Support for Hungarian participation in the EUREKA programme
2022-1.2.4-EUREKA;
Horizon Europe Accelerator booster call
2021-1.2.2-EU_KKV;
Call for proposals to foster Hungarian participation in the Horizon Europe programme and other joint programmes of the European Union
2021-1.2.3-EU_KP;
Support for the use of international and national research infrastructures
2021-4.1.2-NEMZ_KI;
Support for Hungarian participation in the applied research and development programme in Hungarian-Turkish cooperation
2022-1.2.6-TÉT-IPARI-TR;
Support for summer internships for Hungarian students studying abroad
2022-1.2.3-GYAK;
Support for Hungarian participation in the applied research and development programme in Hungarian–Uzbek cooperation
2022-1.2.2-TÉT-IPARI-UZ;
Support for Hungarian participation in the applied research and development programme in Hungarian–Korean cooperation
2022-1.2.5-TÉT-IPARI-KR
6,00 International programmes
Call for proposals to foster Hungarian participation in the Horizon Europe programme and other joint programmes of the European Union
2021-1.2.3-EU_KP;
Support for the use of international and national research infrastructures
2021-4.1.2-NEMZ_KI;
Support to bilateral science and technology (S&T) cooperations;
Support for Hungarian participation in the EUREKA programme
2022-1.2.4-EUREKA;
Support for participation in the Horizon Europe Key Digital Technologies (KDT) partnership
2022-1.2.8-KDT
6,10
Investment in the future Fund
Investment in the future
2020-1.1.6-JÖVŐ
7,00 Centres of excellence
Establishing and developing centres of excellence
2022-1.1.1-KK
20,70 Incubator Support Scheme
(Call for proposal will be announced later)
5,00
Development of an applied research network
Participation in the National Network of Applied Research Institutes
2021-1.1.2-AKH
1,63 Startup Programme
Startup Programme
2022-1.1.2-STARTUP
4,06 Research Excellence ‘Proof of Concept’ Programme
(Call for proposal will be announced later)
3,00
University Innovation Ecosystema
University Innovation Ecosystema
2019-1.2.1-EGYETEMI ÖKO
4,00        
KKV Start programme
KKV Start Innovation
2020-1.1.1-KKV START
12,00        
Research Sub-fund
2021-2023
Thematic Excellence Programme
(National-Health-Defence)

Thematic Excellence Programme 2021
TKP2021
75,00        
New National Excellence Programme 0,600 New National Excellence Programme 0,828 New National Excellence Programme 0,710
Call for Research Scholarship Applications for Undergraduate Students
ÚNKP-21-1
Call for Research Scholarship Applications for Undergraduate Students
ÚNKP-22-1
Call for Research Scholarship Applications for Undergraduate Students
ÚNKP-23-1
Call for Research Scholarship Applications for Graduate Students
ÚNKP-21-2
Call for Research Scholarship Applications for Graduate Students
ÚNKP-22-2
Call for Research Scholarship Applications for Graduate Students
ÚNKP-23-2
Call for Research Scholarship Applications for PhD Students
ÚNKP-21-3
1,00 Call for Research Scholarship Applications for PhD Students
ÚNKP-22-3
1,20 Call for Research Scholarship Applications for PhD Students
ÚNKP-23-3
1,029
“Power Up Science!” Call for Research Scholarship Applications for Doctoral Candidate sand
ÚNKP-21-4
0,832 “Power Up Science!” Call for Research Scholarship Applications for Doctoral Candidate sand
ÚNKP-22-4
1,052 “Power Up Science!” Call for Research Scholarship Applications for Doctoral Candidate sand
ÚNKP-23-4
0,902
Call for Scholarship Applications for Bolyai+ Higher Education Teachers and Researchers
ÚNKP-21-5
1,40 Call for Scholarship Applications for Bolyai+ Higher Education Teachers and Researchers
ÚNKP-22-5
0,70 Call for Scholarship Applications for Bolyai+ Higher Education Teachers and Researchers ÚNKP-23-5 0,60
“Power up your Talent!” Call for Research Scholarship Applications for New Higher Education Students
ÚNKP-21-6
0,168 “Power up your Talent!” Call for Research Scholarship Applications for New Higher Education Students
ÚNKP-22-6
0,220 “Power up your Talent!” Call for Research Scholarship Applications for New Higher Education Students
ÚNKP-23-6
0,189
Cooperative Doctoral Programme
Cooperative Doctoral Programme
KDP-2021
4,894 Cooperative Doctoral Programme
Cooperative Doctoral Programme
KDP-2021
2,832 Cooperative Doctoral Programme
Cooperative Doctoral Programme
KDP-2023
5,070
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
12,90 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_22, FK_22, K_22, ANN_22, SNN_22
13,50 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_23, FK_23, K_23, SNN_23
13,50
Forefront – Research Excellence Programme
Forefront – Research Excellence Programme
KKP_21
3,00 Forefront – Research Excellence Programme
Forefront – Research Excellence Programme
KKP_22
3,00 Forefront Plus – Research Excellence Programme
(Call for proposal will be announced later)
5,00
Patronage Programme
Science Patronage Programme
MEC_21
1,00 Building the Selye János Student Lab network
Building the Selye János Student Lab network
2022-3.1.1-DIÁKLABOR
2,00    
National Laboratories Sub-fund
2022
    National Laboratories
Establishment and complex development of the National Laboratories
2022-2.1.1-NL
26,60    
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