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.
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.
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 | 148 | 246 470 233 |
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 | 2 249 | 3 163 467 014 |
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 timing and the budget of the RDI funding schemes of the EU-financed operational programme (Economic Development and Innovation Operational Programme Plus - EDIOP Plus) has been approved by the Government within the Annual Development Plan (ADP), upon the proposal of the NRDI Office.
The 2022 calls for domestic RDI proposals financed from the NRDI Fund are set out in the annual Programme Strategy adopted by the Government.
(Government Decree 1414/2022. (VIII. 18.)
The table below shows the calls announced for the period 2021-2027 and their amounts, broken down by year.
Source |
Specificity |
Budget 2021 (Bn HUF) |
Budget 2022 (Bn HUF) |
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NRF | RF | NRF | RF | |||||
GINOP Plusz (EDIOP) |
Economic Development and Innovation Operational Programme Plusz |
136,670 | - | 5 | - |
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NRDI Fund |
National Research, Development and Innovation Fund |
189,384 | - |
143,8293 |
- |
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ITM (2021) | Ministry for Innovation and Technology (2021) | 11 | - | - | - | |||
RRF | Recovery and Resilience Facility | 153,141 | - | 39,750 | - | |||
SUM |
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490,195 | - | 188,5793 | - |
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NRF= non-refundable RF= refundable |
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Source |
Calls for proposals |
Budget 2021 (Bn HUF) |
Budget 2022 (Bn HUF) |
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NRF | RF | NRF | RF | |||||
GINOP Plusz ITM |
Support of business RDI activities |
Stimulating business research, development and innovation GINOP Plusz-2.1.2-21 |
136,67 | - | - | - | ||
Targeted R&D services |
Targeted R&D services to businesses, research sites, and research and knowledge-dissemination organisations GINOP Plusz-2.2.1-22 |
- | - | 5 | - | |||
Energetics Calls | The implementation of developments for the recovery, storage or market-based use of waste heat through innovative storage or conversion technologies 2021-2.1.2-HŐ |
5 | - | - | - | |||
The implementation of developments promoting innovative electrochemical storage of surplus carbon-free electricity 2021-2.1.1-EK |
6 | - | - | - | ||||
RRF 2021-2022 |
Practice-oriented higher education | Infrastructure and skills development for practice-oriented higher education RRF-2.1.2-21 |
81,476 | - | - | - | ||
National Laboratories | Establishment and complex development of the National Laboratory RRF-2.3.1-21 |
71,765 | - | - | - | |||
Higher education courses and services adapted to the core activities of adult education institution | Institutional innovation of higher education courses and services adapted to the core activities of adult education institutions and strengthening of adult learning activities in higher education RRF-2.1.3- 22 |
- | - | 39,750 | - | |||
Innovation Sub-fund 2021-2022 |
Support for market-driven RDI projects | Support for market-driven RDI projects 2020-1.1.2-PIACI KFI; 2021-1.1.3-PIACI KFI |
59,06 | - | 40,4673 | - |
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KKV Start programme | KKV Start Innovation 2020-1.1.1-KKV START |
12 | - | - | - |
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Fast track programme | Fast track 2020-1.1.5-GYORSÍTÓSÁV; 2021-1.1.4-GYORSÍTÓSÁV |
3 | - | 12,85 | - |
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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 |
0,4 | - | 0,3 | - | |||
University Innovation Ecosystema |
University Innovation Ecosystem 2019-1.2.1-EGYETEMI ÖKO |
2 | - | - | - |
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International programmes | 2019-2.1.3-NEMZ_ECSEL (2021); 2019-2.1.2-NEMZ (2021); 2020-1.2.1-GYAK (2021); 2021-1.2.1-EIT-KIC (2021); 2021-1.2.4-TÉT (2021); 2021-1.2.5-TÉT-IPARI-RU (2021) 2019-2.1.7-ERA-NET (2021. 2022); 2020-1.2.3-EUREKA (2021, 2022); 2021-1.2.2-EU_KKV (2021. 2022); 2021-1.2.3-EU_KP (2021, 2022); 2021-4.1.2-NEMZ_KI (2021, 2022); 2021-1.2.6-TÉT-IPARI-MA (2021), 2022-1.2.4-EUREKA (2022); 2022-1.2.6-TÉT-IPARI-TR (2022); 2022-1.2.3-GYAK (2022); 2022-1.2.2-TÉT-IPARI-UZ (2022), 2022-1.2.5-TÉT-IPARI-KR (2022) | 3,5 | - | 6 | - | |||
Centres of excellence |
Establishing and developing centres of excellence2022-1.1.1-KK | - | - | 20,7 | - |
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Startup Programme | Startup Programme | - | - | 8,5 | - | |||
Investment in the future Fund | Investment in the future 2020-1.1.6-JÖVŐ |
7 | - | - | - |
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Development of an applied research network | Participation in the National Network of Applied Research Institutes 2021-1.1.2-AKH |
1,63 | - | - | - |
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Research Sub-fund 2021-2022 |
Thematic Excellence Programme 2021 | Thematic Excellence Programme TKP2021 |
75 | - | - | - |
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New National Excellence Programme | New National Excellence Programme – Call for Research Scholarship Applications for Undergraduate Students ÚNKP-21-1; ÚNKP-22-1 |
0,60 | - | 0,828 | - | |||
New National Excellence Programme – Call for Research Scholarship Applications for Graduate Students ÚNKP-21-2; ÚNKP-22-2 |
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New National Excellence Programme – Call for Research Scholarship Applications for PhD Students ÚNKP-21-3; ÚNKP-22-3 |
1 | - | 1,2 | - | ||||
New National Excellence Programme – “Power Up Science!” Call for Research Scholarship Applications for Doctoral Candidate sand Postdoctors ÚNKP-21-4; ÚNKP-22-4 |
0,832 | - | 1,052 | - | ||||
New National Excellence Programme – Call for Scholarship Applications for Bolyai+ Higher Education Teachers and Researchers ÚNKP-21-5; ÚNKP-22-5 |
1,40 | - | 0,70 | - | ||||
New National Excellence Programme – “Power up your Talent!” Call for Research Scholarship Applications for New Higher Education Students ÚNKP-21-6; ÚNKP-22-6 |
0,168 | - | 0,22 | - | ||||
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 PD_22, FK_22, K_22, ANN_22, SNN_22 |
12,9 | - | 13,5 | - | |||
Patronage Programme | Science Patronage Programme MEC_21 |
1 | - | - | - | |||
Forefront – Research Excellence Programme | Forefront – Research Excellence Programme KKP_21, KKP_22 |
3 | - | 3 | - | |||
Cooperative Doctoral Programme | Cooperative Doctoral Programme KDP-2021 |
4,894 | - | 2,832 | - | |||
Strategic R&D centres |
Strategic R&D centres SKFM-2022 |
- | - | 3 | - | |||
Development of the Selye János Student Lab Network | Development of the Selye János Student Lab Network | - | - | 2 | - | |||
National Laboratories Sub-fund 2022 |
National Laboratories | Establishment and complex development of the National Laboratories 2022-2.1.1-NL |
- | - | 26,6 | - |