The call for proposals to support Hungarian participation in the EUREKA programme has been reopened:
The aim of this call for proposals, financed from the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund, is to support Hungarian participation in the EUREKA programme, which promotes international R&D cooperation between businesses, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, and through this programme:
- to boost the competitiveness of Hungarian businesses;
- to enhance Hungarian participation at the international level;
- to stimulate R&D cooperation between researchers and businesses by supporting innovative near-market projects resulting in the development of a prototype, new product, technology or service; and
- to promote the domestic utilisation of participation in international R&D projects.
Submission of proposals
Project proposals should be submitted online, by logging in and completing the online form on the Participant Portal (Pályázati e-ügyintézés) at www.palyazat.gov.hu. The finalised proposal must be submitted together with a duly signed (authenticated) statement verifying the electronic submission of the proposal, in line with the Application Guidelines.
Project proposals can be submitted (electronically) from the official opening of the online form until 16.00 CET on 16 October 2023.
Eligible applicants
The domestic call is only open to the partners/consortium leaders of EUREKA project proposals or approved projects submitted in English by the international consortium and entered into the database of the EUREKA Secretariat or the register of the EUREKA clusters, and approved by the Hungarian EUREKA National Project Coordinator. Hungarian partners participating in the same international EUREKA project must apply as a consortium to receive national funding.
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:
- business companies, non-profit companies and other economic organisations specified in the call, provided that they have at least two completed business years, maintain double-entry accounting and are not subject to the small taxpayers’ itemized lump sum 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: applied (industrial) research, experimental development;
- activities not eligible independently: activities related to the publicity, coordination, marketing, IP protection of the project, activities related to travel, purchase of equipment, purchase of intangible assets.
Total budget
- The overall EUREKA budget is HUF 400 million.
Maximum funding per project:
- For the General EUREKA sub-programme, the amount of funding per project is HUF 20 to 70 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.
The aim of this call for proposals, financed from the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund, is to support Hungarian participation in the EUREKA programme, which promotes international R&D cooperation between businesses, especially small and medium-sized enterprises.
The 13 funding requests received between 29 April 2022 and 16 October 2023 amounts to HUF 821,825,102. The Innovation Board and the President of the NRDI Office have proposed to the Funder to support 3 proposals worth HUF 163,439,839.
FUNDED PROJECTS
Funding organisation: Ministry of Culture and Innovation
Source: NRDI Fund
Date of decision: 15 December 2023
|
Project code |
Name of applicant |
Project title |
Amount of awarded funds (HUF) |
Total eligible project costs (HUF) |
Site of implementation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-1.2.4-EUREKA-2022-00006 | Z. E. H. Energetikai és Építőipari Korlátolt felelősségű társaság | Előrejelző algoritmusokkal támogatott fűrészgép fejlesztése, mely intelligens és fenntartható termelést végez (angol rövidítés betűszó SMCMSSPPA) | 30 750 000 | 41 000 000 | 8796 Türje, Vince major, hrsz: 0206 |
| 2022-1.2.4-EUREKA-2023-00012 | Természettudományi Kutatóközpont |
ROBUST – Lágy Poliuretán Alapú Termékek Körforgásos Gyártása | 68 379 839 | 74 519 339 | 1117 Budapest, Magyar tudósak körútja 2. |
| BBS Nanotechnológia Kutatási és Fejlesztési Kft. | |||||
| 2022-1.2.4-EUREKA-2023-00013 | IncQuery Labs Zártkörűen Működő Részvénytársaság | Nyílt szabványok a skálázható virtuális rendszertervezéshez és üzemeltetéshez | 64 310 000 | 76 958 960 | 1072 Budapest, Rákóczi út 36. |
| Budapeseti Műszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem |
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