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Call for “OTKA” postdoctoral excellence programme
Date of announcement: 28 march 2023
Modified:
Next deadline for submission:
Deadline for E-submission: 03 may 2023 16:00
03 may 2023
Deadline for application via post office: 10 may 2023
Submitter of proposal
Budgetary institution, Enterprise, Non-profit organisation
Beneficiary groups
Institution of higher education, Other budgetary research institution, Enterprise-based research organisation, Non-profit research organisation, Institution of the Eötvös Loránd Research Network (ELKH)
Budget
HUF 13 500 000 000
Number of applications
330-350
Funds available per project
HUF 30 Mn
Field of research activity
Fundamental research
Evaluator of proposals
NRDI Office
Financed from the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund, the call contributes to the strengthening of centres of excellence in Hungary by funding young researchers having a recent doctoral degree. With the funding, young researchers with a PhD/DLA degree (postdoctors) have greater chance to become the outstanding representatives of Hungarian scientific life in the future.

Available budget

In the period 2024-2027, the Ministry of Culture and Innovation allocates a combined budget of HUF 13.5 billion from the NRDI Fund for the programme of the thematic research projects (K_23), the young researchers’ and postdoctoral excellence programmes (FK_23, PD_23) and the programme of thematic research projects based on Hungarian–Slovenian bilateral cooperation (SNN_23).

Duration of the projects

Projects shall commence on 1 January 2024, and the maximum project duration is 36 months.

Amount of funding

According to the call, HUF 30 million for maximum 36 months can be requested for each project. If the duration of the project is shorter, requested funding should be decreased on a pro rata temporis basis. Apart from remuneration and related taxes payable by the employer, certain tangible costs are also eligible, as well as overhead costs and costs of acquisition of scientific information and Open Access publication, both 10% of the direct project costs. The eligible amount of full-time researcher’s salary is HUF 530,000 gross per month. The implementation of PD type projects cannot involve participating researchers, however technical staff and students are allowed. The earliest date for reporting costs is the project start date specified in the funding agreement.

Submission of applications

The NRDI Office enables applicants to submit their applications exclusively electronically. In this case, the documents required in Chapter “K” of the call to be submitted by regular mail / with electronic signature must be signed electronically as specified in Chapter “K” of the call and attached to the application on the Online Application Portal by the deadline for electronic submission, that is, by 3 May 2023 at 16:00 (CET).

Please note that all documents required to be submitted by regular mail / with electronic signature must be submitted to the NRDI Office in the same way, that is, either all such documents should be submitted by regular mail or all of them should be submitted electronically with electronic signature.

In the case of submission by regular mail, the submission is successful if the proposal was finalised electronically by the applicant and approved by the head of the host institution by the deadline for E-submission, and the documents required in Chapter “K” of the call were submitted by regular mail to the Customer Service of the NRDI Office by the deadline.

In the case of electronic submission, the submission is successful if the proposal was finalised electronically by the applicant and approved by the head of the host institution by the deadline for E-submission, and the electronically signed versions of the documents required in Chapter “K” of the call to be submitted by regular mail / with electronic signature have been submitted through the Online Application Portal.

All applications must be submitted in English irrespective of the field of science. Applications in Hungarian are only allowed on the basis of prior approval (so-called Hungaricum permission, to be requested not later than 14 April 2023). In the case of PD type proposals submitted in humanities and social sciences, bilingual research plans may be submitted, regardless of a Hungaricum permission.

Eligible applicants

Principal investigators can apply jointly with the host institution which has to be a Hungarian based

  • higher education institution, research centre, research institution, budgetary institution or an institution thereof having legal personality that qualifies as a research and knowledge-dissemination organisation under Commission Regulation (EU) No 651/2014;
  • business company which has at least two completed business years, maintains double-entry accounting that qualifies as a research and knowledge-dissemination organisation under Commission Regulation (EU) No 651/2014;
  • non-profit organisation that qualifies as a research and knowledge-dissemination organisation under Commission Regulation (EU) No 651/2014.

Throughout the entire implementation period the principal investigator shall be employed by the host institution under an employment contract, civil service contract or other contract aimed at performing work. Awarded postdoctors must undertake to work at least 50% of their time (0,5 FTE) on the tasks defined in the project proposal.

Further eligibility terms for principal investigators

Only those postdoctors are eligible for the funding whose doctoral degree (PhD/DLA) was issued not earlier than 1 January 2018. Researchers with child(ren) born after the date of degree can apply for preferential terms in this respect. Further relief from the rule may be granted in special circumstances, upon individual considerations.

No more than one proposal may be submitted to this call as principal investigator, and FD_23, K_23 or SNN_23 proposals are not allowed in parallel. Grantees of K_22, FK_22, PD_22, ANN_22, SNN_22 projects, grantees of Forefront (KKP) projects and Momentum (Lendület) projects of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences are not eligible either. Further “OTKA” type grants may be awarded in the future, however, submission of such proposals is not allowed in the first 12 months of the PD_23 implementation period.

Eligible objectives and actions

Project proposals can cover discovery research in any fields of science, regardless of thematic priority, if otherwise the application meets the conditions laid down in the call. Those actions are eligible which aim to achieve the key objectives developed on the basis of the research and work plan specified in the proposal, in any field of science and set out in the research project plan submitted to the NRDI Office.

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2023 winners of the “OTKA” postdoctoral excellence programme (PD_23)

This year’s “OTKA” postdoctoral excellence programme (PD_23) granted support to 89 early-stage researchers with doctoral degrees for their wages and research-related costs for a period of three years with a total budget of approximately HUF 2.6 billion.

The scheme proportionally fits in the domestic portfolio of competitive calls and aims to co-finance the employment costs of researchers, who have recently obtained their doctoral degrees, thus helping them to stay in research and build a career by joining a research group and cooperating with experienced researchers in Hungary.

The postdoctoral excellence project proposals were reviewed by anonymous reviewers against the criteria indicated in the call notice, with the involvement of expert panels and specialised scientific councils. The Deputy Secretary of State for Innovation, acting on a proposal from the councils responsible for decision preparation and as designated by the Minister for Science Policy Coordination, has decided to support 89 postdoc research projects, distributed by discipline as follows:

Field of science
Number of submitted proposals
(pcs)
Number of funded projects
(pcs)
Total amount claimed
(in HUF thousands)
Total amount awarded
(in HUF thousands)
Council of Humanities and Social Sciences 84 23 2 289 848 664 707
Council of Physical Sciences 88 25 2 571 385 743 678
Council of Complex Environmental Sciences 62 20 1 812 584 578 150
Council of Medical and Biological Sciences 72 21 2 045 817 607 783
Total 306 89 8 719 634 2 594 318


FUNDED PROJECTS

Funding organisation: Ministry of Culture and Innovation
Source: NRDI Fund
Date of decision: 20 November 2023

Evaluation panel
Project code
Principal investigator/Project title/Research organisation
Project period
(month)
Amount of awarded funds
(in HUF thousands)
Political Science, Law and Govemment Sciences 146789 Mónika Nogel: Legal Questions of Using CRISPR/Cas9 Technology in Human Cells (Széchenyi István University) 36 21 903
Political Science, Law and Govemment Sciences 146942 Eszter Kováts: Fight for reality. The relationship between critical theories and progressive politics in the contemporary West. Case study Germany (Center for Social Sciences) 36 29 996
Economics 146055 Dóra Gréta Petróczy: Fairness issues in sports: balanced competition and voting (Centre for Economic and Regional Studies) 36 29 997
Economics 146385 Tibor Bareith: Commmodity prices, inflation and monetary policy (Centre for Economic and Regional Studies) 36 29 991
Economics 146507 John Jr. Szabó: The emergence of a European hydrogen market (Centre for Economic and Regional Studies) 36 29 308
Economics 146648 László Kökény: Infinite world, infinite challenge? Consumer concerns and the role of consumer protection in tourism with the growth of online opportunities. (Corvinus University of Budapest) 36 29 710
Literature 146626 Tamás Oláh: Histories of the development of minority identity: Hungarian theatre history in Vojvodina 1918–1995 (Research Centre for the Humanities) 36 27 506
Literature 146766 Gábor Danyi: Literary and political exchanges between the Polish and Hungarian second public sphere 1976–1989 (University of Szeged) 36 29 995
Literature 146919 Gábor Mészáros: Miscellanies and periodicals in the 18─19th century literature (Research Centre for the Humanities) 36 29 977
Linguistics 146415 Irina Burukina: Demystifying dative: A study on Uralic (Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics) 36 29 980
Linguistics 147148 Ekaterina Stefanova Georgieva: Exploring clause structure through the lens of ellipsis (Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics) 36 30 000
Psychology and Education 146197 Nikolett Arató: To Laugh or to Report? - Assessing Factors Influencing Cyber Bystander Behaviour and Cyberbullying Prevention (Eötvös Loránd University) 36 29 967
Psychology and Education 146384 Edit Vass: Virtual reality-based intervention (AVATAR therapy) for the treatment of residual auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia spectrum disorders (Semmelweis University) 36 27 432
Psychology and Education 147001 András Matuz: Predicting mental fatigue via machine learning: electrophysiological studies and methodological developments (University of Pécs) 36 29 232
Archeology 146223 Melinda Szabó: Women on the Frontier. Social relations in Roman Pannonia (Eötvös Loránd University) 36 29 529
Archeology 146612 Tamás Szeniczey: Colliding worlds – living at the borderland between East and West in the Avar Period (6–9th c. AD) (Eötvös Loránd University) 36 28 700
Society 145881 Ana Stojilovska: Hungary in the energy crisis: From energy poverty to energy scarcity (Center for Social Sciences) 36 29 901
Society 146366 Gábor Simonovits: Reducing anti-Roma discrimination (Center for Social Sciences) 36 29 906
Society 146797 Krisztina Metzgerné Kopcsó: Socioeconomic status, digital media use and early childhood development (HCSO Demographic Research Institute) 36 21 747
History 146412 Szabolcs László: The Promotion of the Kodály-method and Hungarian Cultural Diplomacy during the Kádár era (Research Centre for the Humanities) 36 30 000
History 146522 Beáta Kulcsár: Personal stories of emigration and adaptation: Hungarians in Canada (Linda Dégh's interview collection) (Center for Social Sciences) 36 29 960
History 146688 Réka Újlaki Nagy: On the Border of Christianity and Judaism: Transylvanian Sabbatarianism in European Context (Research Centre for the Humanities) 36 29 999
History 146928 Sára Nóra Sánta: The Study of Antiquity in Hungary in the 16–18th Centuries (Research Centre for the Humanities) 36 29 971
Earth sciences 1 145853 Levente Patkó: Deciphering links between mantle melts and surface gas emanations in the Nógrád-Gömör Volcanic Field (Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science) 36 27 884
Earth sciences 1 147116 Eszter Békési: Deformation processes in siliciclastic reservoirs based on satellite ground motion observations and novel modelling approaches (Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science) 36 26 618
Earth sciences 1 147180 Ervin Hrabovszki: The role of fracture cementation and reactivation in the fluid transport of a low porosity and permeability claystone body (University of Szeged) 36 29 946
Earth sciences 2 146019 Tamás Bozóki: New perspectives on the study of global lightning activity as an essential climate variable (Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science) 36 29 211
Earth sciences 2 146498 Tamás Bartyik: Spatial variation and the controlling factors of luminescence sensitivity in fluvial sediments in the Danube Basin (University of Szeged) 36 25 426
Complex agricultural sciences 146042 Zsuzsanna Ambrózy: Early disease prognosis based on volatile biomarker compounds (Centre for Agricultural Research) 36 29 969
Complex agricultural sciences 146758 Sándor Kecskeméti: EXPLORING THE OLFACTORY AND VISUAL SYSTEM OF FUNGUS GNATS: ON THE COURSE FOR A SELECTIVE TRAP DEVELOPMENT FOR A SUSTAINABLE MUSHROOM CULTIVATION (Centre for Agricultural Research) 36 29 999
Complex agricultural sciences 146980 Zalán Czékus: Investigation of the hormonal- and light-dependent regulation of pipecolic acid in the induction of local and systemic defence responses of tomato plants (University of Szeged) 36 29 985
Complex Spatial Sciences 146375 Tamás Kovalcsik: Electoral geography of Central Europe (University of Szeged) 36 29 279
Complex Spatial Sciences 147222 Zsuzsanna Pósfai: Household debt in Hungary in an unfolding economic and energy crisis (Periféria Research Cener Ltd.) 36 29 976
Plant and animal breeding 145915 András Farkas: Development of Automated Agri-cytogenetic Diagnostic System to support effective gene introgression into cereals (Centre for Agricultural Research) 36 29 922
Plant and animal breeding 146030 Zsolt Szűcs: Chemical pattern analysis of pea (Pisum sativum) sprouts using metabolomic methods (University of Debrecen) 36 30 000
Plant and animal breeding 146700 András Marosi: Development of a new formulation method of virus vaccines with improved efficiency by production of biocompatible polymer-based, virus-loaded nanoparticles (University of Veterinary Medicine Budapest) 36 29 835
Plant and animal breeding 147156 Viktória Lilla Balázs: Investigation of the combined effect of essential oils and components to reduce antibiotic resistance (University of Pécs) 36 21 000
Ecology and evolution 145938 Ádám Lovas-Kiss: Effect of functional traits of phytoplankton on their waterbird-mediated dispersal network (Centre for Ecological Research) 36 29 995
Ecology and evolution 146325 Bence Kovács: The microclimatic buffering capacity of managed forests under different management regimes (Centre for Ecological Research) 36 29 645
Ecology and evolution 146326 Ildikó Fekete-Kertész: Towards understanding how more environmentally realistic exposure modulates the toxicity of graphene oxide in the aquatic ecosystem (Budapest University of Technology and Economics) 36 30 000
Ecology and evolution 146480 Jana Růžičková: Effects of individual movement and predation pressure on the changes in habitat use of carabid beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in different forestry treatments (Eötvös Loránd University) 36 29 812
Ecology and evolution 146621 István Márton Szabolcs: Biodiversity patterns and conservation priorities in the Balkan Peninsula and the Carpathian Basin (Centre for Ecological Research) 36 29 996
Ecology and evolution 147122 Attila Fülöp: Do birds of a feather flock together? Group formation and the physiological consequences of sociality (Office for Research Groups Attached to Universities and Other Institutions) 36 29 652
Physics 146479 András Pálinkás: Higher-order moiré superlattices in van der Waals heterostructures (Centre for Energy Research) 36 29 983
Physics 146527 Zoltán Péli: Researching beyond the standard model physics (Eötvös Loránd University) 36 26 856
Physics 146589 Dániel Kincses: Exploring the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter with femtoscopic correlations at the STAR experiment (Eötvös Loránd University) 36 30 000
Physics 146795 Dávid Ugi: In situ investigation and characterization of different plastic deformation mechanisms operating at the nanoscale (Eötvös Loránd University) 36 29 993
Physics 146947 Olimpia Judit Fogasy: Active galactic nuclei and their environment in the early universe (Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences) 36 29 990
Physics 147091 Barnabás Barna: New extragalactic distance measurement method with type Iax supernovae (University of Szeged) 36 29 777
Engineering, Metallurgy, Architecture and Transport Sciences 146109 Viktor Hlavicka: Fire resistance of recycled aggregate concrete (Budapest University of Technology and Economics) 36 29 990
Engineering, Metallurgy, Architecture and Transport Sciences 146135 Dániel Gere: Investigation of the mechanical recyclability of packaging plastic waste and microplastics (Budapest University of Technology and Economics) 36 30 000
Engineering, Metallurgy, Architecture and Transport Sciences 146259 Péter Nagy-György: Development of adaptive vehicle industry solutions using non-Newtonian fluids (Budapest University of Technology and Economics) 36 29 950
Engineering, Metallurgy, Architecture and Transport Sciences 146459 Henrik Tamás Sykora: Physics-informed data-driven modelling of stochastic non-smooth dynamical systems (Budapest University of Technology and Economics) 36 30 000
Informatics and Electrical Engineering 145832 Balázs Pejó: Contribution Score Computation for Secure and Private Federated Learning (Budapest University of Technology and Economics) 36 29 988
Informatics and Electrical Engineering 145902 Péter Polcz: Computational analysis of nonlinear uncertain systems with applications (Pázmány Péter Catholic University) 36 30 000
Informatics and Electrical Engineering 146397 Gergely Szlobodnyik: Quantitative analysis and identifiability of dynamic system models with network structure. (Pázmány Péter Catholic University) 36 30 000
Chemistry 1 145972 Roland Tóbiás: Development of effective quantum-chemical models for molecular clusters and floppy molecules (Eötvös Loránd University) 36 30 000
Chemistry 1 146145 Márton Kőrösi: Improving a new measurement device for the thermoanalytical support of innovative high-pressure processes (Budapest University of Technology and Economics) 36 29 993
Chemistry 1 146252 Dániel Csókás: Selectivity of metathesis reactions: from rationalization to catalyst design (Research Center of Natural Sciences) 36 30 000
Chemistry 1 146265 Ádám Ganyecz: Development of Computational Protocols Based on Density Matrix Renormalization Group for Quantum Chemical Applications (Wigner Research Centre for Physics) 36 29 993
Chemistry 1 146529 Bence Kutus: Dissolution and neutralization processes of reactive components of red mud (University of Szeged) 36 29 829
Chemistry 1 146764 Fanni Sebák: New insights in the development of drug delivery systems: introduction of modern NMR methods for structural characterization and in vitro internalization studies (Eötvös Loránd University) 36 29 994
Chemistry 2 146027 Klára Tímea Aradi: New fluorination strategies via transition-metal-catalyzed selective transformations (Research Center of Natural Sciences) 36 28 509
Chemistry 2 146048 Eszter Erika London-Kozma: Development of photoactivatable ligands for the selective modulation of Ca2+ dynamics in astrocytes (Research Center of Natural Sciences) 36 29 994
Chemistry 2 146216 Anikó Gaál: Red blood cells derived extracellular vesicles - diagnostic and therapeutic purposes (Research Center of Natural Sciences) 36 29 826
Chemistry 2 146805 Erika Mező: Preparation of O,N-heterocycles as potential glycosidase enzyme inhibitors from carbohydrate precursors (University of Debrecen) 36 29 880
Mathematics and Computing Science 145995 Ákos Matszangosz Kyriakos: Fundamental classes in cohomology theories (Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics) 36 29 850
Mathematics and Computing Science 146210 Mahmoud Abdalla Ali Ibrahim: Stability and threshold dynamics in non-autonomous dynamical systems with applications in mathematical biology (University of Szeged) 36 29 283
Physiology, Pathophysiology, Pharmacology and Endocrinology 146235 Tamara Éva Madácsy: Novel therapeutic options in alcohol induced pancreatic and liver diseases (University of Szeged) 36 30 000
Genetics, Genomics, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology 146654 Balázs Koncz: The effect of cumulative burden of rare damaging genetic variants on antitumor immunity (Biological Research Centre Szeged) 36 30 000
Genetics, Genomics, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology 146794 Prateek Shetty: Predictable alteration of algal phenotypes using synthetic phycospheres (Biological Research Centre Szeged) 36 27 600
Genetics, Genomics, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology 146881 Nikita Moshkov: Learning representations of cell morphology and their applications to analysis of perturbations with multi-modal data and cancer personalised medicine (Biological Research Centre Szeged) 36 30 000
Genetics, Genomics, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology 147127 Vivien Csapóné Miczán: The Proteomic Map of Mitosis in Human Tumor Tissue (Biological Research Centre Szeged) 36 30 000
Neurosciences 146014 Nóra Eszlári: Exploring distinct cognitive-emotional profiles in the paths from genomics to mental health (Semmelweis University) 36 29 791
Neurosciences 146424 Kinga Farkas: A transdiagnostic electrophysiological study of social cognition and self-perception differences in autism spectrum disorder and schizophrenia (Semmelweis University) 36 29 640
Neurosciences 146787 István Fodor: Rapid cellular changes induced by sex steroids in a defined simpler nervous system () 36 29 994
Immunity, Cancer and Microbiology 146373 Ildikó Krencz: Analyzing metabolic heterogeneity and plasticity in small cell lung carcinoma: the effect of spatiotemporal evolution and phenotype transitions on the metabolism of the tumor cells (Semmelweis University) 36 28 800
Immunity, Cancer and Microbiology 146549 Bálint Scheich: Characterization of EZH2 as a therapeutic target and regulator of proliferation and metabolic plasticity in anaplastic meningioma (Semmelweis University) 36 27 648
Clinical Medicine 145889 Bálint Egyed: Sequencing-based risk stratification and prediction of refractory disease in hematological disorders of childhood (Semmelweis University) 36 29 510
Clinical Medicine 146299 Zsuzsanna Mihály: Carotid stenosis CFD modelling and plaque analysis (Semmelweis University) 36 26 477
Clinical Medicine 147269 Márton Kolossváry: Optimalization of data-driven latent feature extraction algorithms from radiological images () 36 29 976
Clinical Medicine 147276 Bálint Gergely Szabó: Manipulation of the enteral microbiome by fecal microbiota transplantation among adult patients with malignant hematological diseases (Semmelweis University) 36 19 440
Molecular and Structural Biology and Biochemistry 146123 Péter Ecsédi: Mapping of multivalent interactions underpinning the activities of genome metabolic protein condensates (Eötvös Loránd University) 36 30 000
Molecular and Structural Biology and Biochemistry 146202 Rini Arianti: Amino acid transporters as novel regulators of energy metabolism in active beige adipocytes (University of Debrecen) 36 29 983
Molecular and Structural Biology and Biochemistry 146564 László Dobson: Eukarióta kórokozók gazdaszervezethez való kapcsolódásának feltárása (Research Center of Natural Sciences) 36 29 466
Molecular and Structural Biology and Biochemistry 146633 Róbert Tóth: The central role of Rad5 in the coordination of DNA damage tolerance pathways (Biological Research Centre Szeged) 36 29 466
Cellular and Developmental Biology 145868 András Jipa: Mechanisms and (patho)physiological roles of selective ER autophagy in Drosophila (Biological Research Centre Szeged) 36 30 000
Cellular and Developmental Biology 146566 Magdolna Gombos: Non-conventional regulatory function of the E2FB transcription factor by directly controlling auxin transport through binding to auxin efflux PIN proteins (Biological Research Centre Szeged) 36 29 992
Cellular and Developmental Biology 146655 Szilárd Kovács: Let the Rhizobia in: Analyis of the epidermal specific regulation of two genes essential for the bacterial entry (Biological Research Centre Szeged) 36 30 000
Updated: 15 February 2024
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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 2024 supports the implementation of the John von Neumann Programme, which focuses on connecting universities, research institutions and the economy. The priority objective of the Programme Strategy 2024 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 planned and launched under the NRDI Fund for the period 2021-2024 and their amounts, broken down by year.

  2021 2022 2023 2024
NRDI budget
(Bn HUF)
189,844 89,838 63,779 176,263*
  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)
Name of the scheme/
Call for proposal
(2024)
Budget
(Bn HUF)
Innovation
Sub-fund

2021-2024
Support for market-driven RDI projects
Support for market-driven RDI projects
2020-1.1.2-PIACI KFI
59,06     Support for Innovation Projects in Focus Areas
Support for Innovation Projects in Focus Areas
2023-1.1.1-PIACI_FÓKUSZ
30,149 SME Focal Area Innovation Programme
SME Focal Area Innovation Programme
2024-1.1.1-KKV_FÓKUSZ
50,00
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
Fast Track
2023-1.1.2-GYORSÍTÓSÁV
2,00 Spin-off Programme: bringing research results to market
Fast track
2023-1.1.2-GYORSÍTÓSÁV
7,00
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 Industrial property tender
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;
EUROSTARS: Support for Hungarian participation in the European Partnership on Innovative SMEs
2022-1.2.7-EUROSTARS;
Call for proposals to support Hungarian organisations successfully participating in joint international calls for proposals of ERA-NET COFUND, EJPCOFUND and other multilateral programmes
2023-1.2.1-ERA-NET;
Call for proposals to support Hungarian organisations successfully participating in the joint international calls for proposals of European Partnerships in Horizon Europe
2023-1.2.2-HE_PARTNERSÉG;
Call for project proposals implemented in bilateral science and technology (S&T) cooperation
2023-1.2.4-TÉT
6,10 International programmes
HU-rizon Programme
2024-1.2.3-HU-RIZONT;
Call for project proposals implemented in bilateral science and technology (S&T) cooperation
2024-1.2.5-TÉT;
Call for proposals to support Hungarian organisations successfully participating in joint international calls for proposals of ERA-NET COFUND, EJP COFUND and other multilateral programmes
2024-1.2.2-ERA_NET;
Call for proposals to support Hungarian organisations successfully participating in the joint international calls for proposals of European Partnerships in Horizon Europe
2024-1.2.1-HE_PARTNERSÉG;
Support for Hungarian participation in the EUREKA programme
2024-1.2.6-EUREKA;
Support for participation in the Horizon Europe Key Digital Technologies (KDT) partnership
2024-1.2.4-KDT;
EUROSTARS: Support for Hungarian participation in the European Partnership on Innovative SMEs;
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;
Horizon Europe Accelerator booster call (EU_KKV);
Support for active participation in international professional organisations for researchers and research managers (Networking+);
Booster call for the Teaming of Excellence 2025 call;
International cooperation in preparation.
17,155
Announced under international programmes.
(Support for the use of international and national research infrastructures 2021-4.1.2-NEMZ_KI)
  Announced under international programmes.   Announced under international programmes.   Support for the use of international and national research infrastructures
Support for the use of international and national research infrastructures
2021-4.1.2-NEMZ_KI;
0,10
            Large Company Focus Area Innovation Programme
(Call for proposal will be announced later)
15,00
            Innovation Venture Capital Programme
(Call for proposal will be announced later)
9,50
            Development of applied research and innovation services
(Call for proposal will be announced later)
2,50
Investment in the future Fund
Investment in the future
2020-1.1.6-JÖVŐ
7,00            
Development of an applied research network
Participation in the National Network of Applied Research Institutes
2021-1.1.2-AKH
1,63            
University Innovation Ecosystema
University Innovation Ecosystema
2019-1.2.1-EGYETEMI ÖKO
2,46            
KKV Start programme
KKV Start Innovation
2020-1.1.1-KKV START
12,00            
    Centres of excellence
Establishing and developing centres of excellence
2022-1.1.1-KK
20,60        
    Startup Programme
Startup Programme
2022-1.1.2-STARTUP
4,06        
        Incubator Support Scheme
STARTUP FACTORY 2023
2023-1.1.3-STARTUP
5,75    
Research
Sub-fund

2021-2024
Postdoctoral and Young researchers’ excellence programme and Call for thematic research projects ("OTKA")
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 ("OTKA")
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 ("OTKA")
Postdoctoral and Young researchers’ excellence programme and Call for thematic research projects ("OTKA")
PD_23, FK_23, K_23, SNN_23
13,50 Excellence-based research funding
Call for EXCELLENCE research proposals
EXCELLENCE_24
Call for ADVANCED research proposals
ADVANCED_24
Call for STARTING research proposals
STARTING_24
Call for proposals for research projects based on Hungarian-Austrian and Hungarian-Slovenian cooperation
ANN_24, SNN_24
19,00
Forefront – Research Excellence Programme
Forefront – Research Excellence Programme
KKP_21
3,00 Forefront – Research Excellence Programme
Forefront – Research Excellence Programme
KKP_22
3,00    
New National Excellence Programme
ÚNKP-21-1, ÚNKP-21-2, ÚNKP-21-3, ÚNKP-21-4, ÚNKP-21-5, ÚNKP-21-6
4,00 New National Excellence Programme
ÚNKP-22-1, ÚNKP-22-2, ÚNKP-22-3, ÚNKP-22-4, ÚNKP-22-5, ÚNKP-22-6
0,828 New National Excellence Programme
ÚNKP-23-1, ÚNKP-23-2, ÚNKP-23-3, ÚNKP-23-4, ÚNKP-23-5, ÚNKP-23-6
0,710 University Research Scholarship Programme
(scholarships announced by higher education institutions)
10,00
Cooperative Doctoral Programme
Cooperative Doctoral Programme
KDP-2021
4,894     Cooperative Doctoral Programme
Cooperative Doctoral Programme
KDP-2023
5,070
Patronage Programme
Science Patronage Programme
MEC_21
1,00         Science Patronage Programme
Science Patronage Programme
MEC_24
1,00
            Research Grant Hungary
Research Grant Hungary
RGH_S_24, RGH_L_24
6,00
            Pension - matching fund
(Call for proposal will be announced later)
0,244
            Own contribution - matching fund
(Call for proposal will be announced later)
0,264
            Proof of Concept: development potential assessment
(Call for proposal will be announced later)
3,00
Thematic Excellence Programme
(National-Health-Defence)

Thematic Excellence Programme 2021
TKP2021
(The budget includes the HUF 1 billion budget of the National Defence Subprogramme of the Cooperative Doctoral Programme (NDPCP-2021), which is closely linked to the National Defence, National Security Subprogramme of the 2021 Thematic Excellence Programme.)
75,00            
    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        

* The total budget of the 2024 Programme Strategy.

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