The funding scheme is split into two sub-programmes (“A” and “B”).

Subprogramme “A”: Funding to businesses for RDI projects with a market potential and a high probability of return on investment, implemented alone or in consortium. By successfully implementing the RDI projects, businesses lay the foundations of new business opportunities. 

Within Subprogramme “A”, proposals can only be submitted for the focal area “Supporting the digital transition of the economy and society.”.

Subprogramme “B”: Funding for RDI projects carried out by consortia of enterprises and research and knowledge-dissemination organisations. Funding for highly important and complex RDI projects involving the professionally outstanding stakeholders of the given field. The results of the funded projects will be used in various economic and social areas, contributing to the solution of existing important problems, and ultimately bringing significant economic and social benefits through the reasonable concentration of resources.

Within subprogramme “B”, proposals can be submitted for all focal and other areas.

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).

Applications for a professional opinion can be submitted from noon on 11 June 2024 until noon on 25 June 2024.

Applicants are informed that the possibility to submit requests for a pre-qualifying opinion will be available from 12:00 CET on 11 June 2024 until 12:00 CET on 17 June 2024. If during this period the total of applications submitted do not reach HUF 100 billion, applications may continue to be submitted until this amount is reached, but no later than until 12:00 on 25 June 2024.

Project proposals should be submitted online, by logging in and completing the online application form on the Participant Portal (Pályázati e-ügyintézés) at www.palyazat.gov.hu. The finalised proposal must be submitted together with a duly signed statement verifying the electronic submission of the application, in line with the Application Guidelines.

Project proposals can be submitted (electronically) from the activation of the online application form until 16:00 CET, 13 November 2024.

Eligible applicants

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 other economic organisations classified under the financial management (GFO) codes specified in the call, provided that they have at least two completed business years and maintain double-entry accounting;
• not-for-profit organisations with a GFO code as defined in the call, which are state-recognised non-state higher education institutions or foundations as defined in Annex 1 to Act CCIV of 2011 on National Higher Education and which are research and knowledge-dissemination organisations as defined in Article 2(83) of Commission Regulation (EU) No 651/2014;
• budgetary organs and budgetary entities, qualifying as research and knowledge-dissemination organisations under Article 2 (83) of Council Regulation 651/2014/EU;
• non-profit companies with a GFO code as defined in the call, provided that they have at least two completed business years, maintain double-entry accounting and are considered as research and knowledge-dissemination organisations under Article 2(83) of Commission Regulation (EU) No 651/2014. 

Eligible project objectives

• Activities eligible for funding independently: experimental development (min. 50% of the eligible project costs).
• Activities not eligible for funding independently: applied (industrial) research, acquisition of hardware and software in the context of the purchase of equipment and R&D project support activities, software subscription services, project management (coordination), mandatory publicity (information activity), obtaining industrial property protection, general costs (overheads), marketing activities, public procurement, mentor’s personnel costs, conference or exhibition costs (dissemination activities), travel costs, market research. 

Additional important terms

• The applicant undertakes to produce a marketable product, technology or service in the course of the project.
• If the project results in a new technology or service: the applicant (in the case of a consortium, the consortium leader and all the for-profit companies jointly) undertakes that the combined net turnover/revenue from the results of the RDI activity supported under this call (i.e. the market exploitation of the technology or service developed under the project) during the first and second year of the project maintenance period will reach at least 30% of the total amount of the awarded funding.
• If the project results in a new product: the applicant (in the case of a consortium, the consortium leader and all the for-profit companies jointly) undertakes that the combined net turnover/revenue from the results of the RDI activities supported under this call (i.e. the market exploitation of the product developed under the project) during the first and second year of the project maintenance period will reach at least 50% of the total amount of the awarded funding.
• The applicant (or the consortium leader in the case of a consortium) undertakes that the product, technology or service resulting from the project will reach at least TRL 7 by the end of the implementation period and TRL 9 at any point within a maximum of 24 months after the actual completion of the project.
• The applicant or, in the case of a consortium, any applicant participating in the consortium, undertakes to obtain an industrial property protection portfolio, a positive patentability assessment in the absence of acquired protection in the case of patents, a trademark protection and acquired protection in the case of various design rights (e.g. design model protection) in relation to the project within a maximum of 24 months after the actual completion of the project.
• The timeframe for implementing the project is 24 months, and for projects in the focus area of preventive, curative and care systems for healthy life, either 24 months or 36 months.
• During the project implementation phase, applicants will have the possibility to benefit from the services of at least 1 implementation mentor to help the project progress successfully, technically and/or commercially, which will also be a criterion for the evaluation of the professional content.
• The Beneficiary is obliged to maintain the project for 2 complete calendar years starting from the date of its actual completion. 

Total budget and maximum amount of funding

Total budget: HUF 50 billion, including

• HUF 10 billion for the focus area “Supporting preventive, curative and care systems to maintain healthy living;”
• HUF 10 billion for the focus area “Supporting the green transition and the development of a circular economy”;
• HUF 25 billion for the focus area “Supporting the digital transition of economy and society”;
• HUF 5 billion for “Other” areas.

Available budget: HUF 7.5 billion for subprogramme A and HUF 42.5 billion for subprogramme B.