This way the interns can translate their theoretical knowledge into practice, learn how businesses and research groups work and contribute to their success with new ideas. They can also have an insight into job opportunities in the domestic labour market.

To provide the human resources and research and development talent needed for future R&D projects, successful projects will enable:

• trainees to gain work experience and build contacts at home;
• host institutions to benefit from the trainees’ knowledge and ideas, as well as testing out potential workforce.

Submission of applications

The application shall be submitted by the host institution.

To submit an application, log in to the Participant Portal (Pályázati e-ügyintézés) at www.palyazat.gov.hu and complete the online application form. Along with the grant application finalised in the online application form, applicants have to submit a duly executed statement certifying the electronic submission of the application, in line with Paragraph 9.1 of the Application Guidelines and the Call.

Project proposals can be submitted (electronically) from the activation of the online application form until 16:00 CET, 28 February 2022.

Eligible applicants

The following host institutions are eligible under the Call:

• Business companies and non-profit companies with legal personality, having their registered seat in Hungary or having their registered seat in the European Economic Area and a branch office in Hungary, classified under the financial management (GFO) codes 113, 114, 141, 572 or 573, provided that they have at least one completed, approved business year (365 days), maintain double-entry accounting and are not subject to the small business tax (KATA).
• Non-profit and other non-business organisations (GFO codes: 552, 562, 563, 599) that are denominational or private higher education institutions accredited by the state.
• Budgetary organs and budgetary entities classified under GFO codes 311, 312, 322, 341, 342, 381 or 382, provided that they qualify as “research and knowledge-dissemination organisations” within the meaning of Article 2 (83) of Commission Regulation 651/2014/EU.
• Further conditions for applicants are provided in Section 3 of the Call and Section 6 of the General Application Guidelines.

The call is not open to consortia. 

Eligible project objectives

Provision of human resources required for research and development projects, training of researchers and developers, gifted education. Employment as an intern of a Hungarian student participating in a BSc, BA, MSc, MA (including undivided) or PhD training programme at a university in the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Denmark or France for the summer period in Hungary.

Total budget and maximum amount of funding

The available budget is expected to total HUF 50 billion. Funding intensity is 100%. The amount of non-refundable funding is min. HUF 500,000, max. HUF 1,500,000 per application and intern. Each trainee must submit a separate application. Only one application may be submitted at a time for the same trainee and only one grant may be awarded for the same trainee. Only a whole month can be accounted for under the project (no prorating is possible). The eligible flat-rate amount is HUF 500.000/month, according to point 7.3.3 of the Guidelines (lump sum).