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New National Excellence Programme – Call for Research Scholarship Applications for Undergraduate Students
Date of announcement: 15 may 2023
Modified:
Next deadline for submission:
Deadline for E-submission: 15 june 2023 24:00
15 june 2023
Deadline for application via post office:
Submitter of proposal
Private person
Beneficiary groups
Other, e.g. a private person
Budget
HUF 710 000 000
Number of applications
591
Funds available per project
HUF 100 000/month/person
Project duration
5 or 10 months
Field of research activity
Fundamental research
Evaluator of proposals
Host higher education institution
The call supports the research activity and professional development of talented students who have successfully fulfilled their high school studies and now pursue undergraduate studies 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 masters studies.

Available budget: Up to HUF 710,000,000 combined with the Call for Research Scholarship Applications for Graduate Students.

Eligible applicants: Talented undergraduate students who have successfully fulfilled their high school studies.

Eligible activities: Scholarship (in any discipline)

Foreseen number of funded applications: Up to 591 combined with the Call for Research Scholarship Applications for Graduate Students.

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

Grant period: Academic year 2023/2024

Grant disbursement period: 5 or 10 months

Assessor of applications and/or proposer of grantees: 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.

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New National Excellence Programme 2023/2024 – Funded institutions
The Ministry for Culture and Innovation, through the National Research, Development and Innovation Office, using the funds earmarked from the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund, announced an open call for scholarship applications for the academic year 2023/2024 within the framework of the New National Excellence Programme (hereinafter: ÚNKP). The following scholarships are available: Scholarship for Bachelor Students, Research Scholarship for Masters Students, Research Scholarship for PhD Students, “Power Up Science!” Research Scholarship for Doctoral Candidates and Postdoctors, Bolyai+ Research Scholarship for Young Lecturers and Researchers, and “Power up your Talent!” Research Scholarship for New Higher Education Students.

The ÚNKP programme supports the training of the next generations of Hungarian researchers and creative artists, helping them to start and stay on a research and artistic career, and providing research funding to internationally outstanding researchers and artists. The scholarship calls 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 host higher education institution. The programme aims to foster scientific research and innovation on all scientific and artistic areas.

By the end of the application period, a total of 4387 applications had been received by the 25 host higher education institutions participating in the programme. As a result of the institutional assessment of the applications, 2249 applicants are awarded scholarship grants, subject to the approval of the Ministry of Culture and Innovation. The total amount awarded is HUF 3,163,467,014, which includes scholarships as well as research and operating grants awarded to the host higher education institutions of the winning applicants, amounting to 20% of the scholarship.

List of institutions funded under the New National Excellence Programme 2023/2024
Funder: Ministry of Culture and Innovation
Source: NRDI Fund
Date of decision: 30 August 2023.

Name of higher education institution Number of funded projects
(pcs)
Amount of funding
(scholarships+institutional 20%, HUF)
Állatorvostudományi Egyetem 20 27 240 000
Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem 84 125 691 706
Budapesti Gazdasági Egyetem 8 7 520 794
Budapesti Műszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem 254 331 320 000
Debreceni Egyetem 243 373 380 000
Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem 404 588 608 512
Eszterházy Károly Katolikus Egyetem 20 29 040 000
Károli Gáspár Református Egyetem 27 38 940 000
Liszt Ferenc Zeneművészeti Egyetem 27 28 080 000
Magyar Agrár- és Élettudományi Egyetem 122 181 620 000
Magyar Képzőművészeti Egyetem 33 20 033 834
Magyar Testnevelési és Sporttudományi Egyetem 4 4 025 154
Miskolci Egyetem 50 79 560 000
Moholy-Nagy Művészeti Egyetem 18 21 120 000
Nemzeti Közszolgálati Egyetem 51 77 040 000
Óbudai Egyetem 45 40 192 460
Pannon Egyetem 41 55 179 278
Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem 65 94 800 000
Pécsi Tudományegyetem 178 285 480 000
Semmelweis Egyetem 149 247 910 233
Soproni Egyetem 25 30 240 000
Széchenyi István Egyetem 47 59 744 989
Szegedi Tudományegyetem 317 395 340 054
Színház- és Filmművészeti Egyetem 16 20 400 000
Tokaj-Hegyalja Egyetem 2 2 400 000
Total 2 250 3 164 907 014
Updated: 12 December 2023
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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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