- 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
Requests for a professional opinion can be completed by logging in at kfivelemeny.nkfih.gov.hu, taking into consideration the assessment criteria indicated there and also listed in section 8 of the call (criteria for assessing requests for a professional opinion submitted on kfivelemeny.nkfih.gov.hu).
The deadline for requests for an RDI opinion is from 12:00 noon on 26 May 2025 until 12:00 noon on 15 July 2027. Requests received by the following cut-off dates will be evaluated in batches:
16 June 2025
15 August 2025
15 October 2025
15 January 2026
15 April 2026
15 July 2026
15 October 2026
15 January 2027
15 April 2027
15 July 2027
To submit an application, log in to the Participant Portal (Pályázati e-ügyintézés) at www.palyazat.gov.hu and complete the online application form. The finalised application must be submitted together with a duly signed declaration verifying the electronic submission of the application, in line with the Guidelines.
Applications can be submitted (electronically) once the online form becomes active, until 16:00 on 15 October 2027. Applications received by the following cut-off dates will be evaluated in batches:
15 September 2025
31 October 2025
15 January 2026
15 April 2026
15 July 2026
15 October 2026
15 January 2027
15 April 2027
15 July 2027
15 October 2027
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:
- businesses and non-profit companies specified in the call, provided that they have at least one completed business year and maintain double-entry accounting;
- 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 total budget of the Call is HUF 450 million.
Maximum funding per project
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.
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