Number of applications: Up to 100.
Eligible applicants: Talented prospective first-year students who have successfully fulfilled their high school studies, have performed well on a science competition for high school students, and have applied for a bachelor or undivided masters programme.
Available budget: Up to HUF 168,000,000
Eligible activities: Scholarship (in any discipline)
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.
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 |
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