The call consists of two sub-programmes:
- For the French and Austrian relations, cooperating partners elaborate joint projects for the call announced by the NRDI Office and the financing agency of the destination country. The proposals should be submitted to the NRDI Office by the Hungarian party and, at the same time, to the financing agency of their own country by their foreign partner. For these relations there are special focus areas specified in the call.
- For any other European and non-European relations, proposals should be submitted unilaterally to the NRDI Office by the Hungarian party, in possession of a hosting statement from the partner institution.
Submission of proposals
Applications should be submitted online, by logging in and completing the online application form on the Participant Portal (Pályázati e-ügyintézés) accessible through the www.palyazat.gov.hu website. As specified in the Guidelines, an officially executed statement should be attached to verify the electronic submission as authorised.
Submission deadline for the Austrian relation: 25 June 2021, 12:00 (CET)
Submission deadline for the French relation: 30 June 2021, 12:00 (CET)
Submission of proposals for any other S&T relations is continuous until 6 October 2021, 12:00 (CET).
Eligible applicants
For this call, only individual applications are eligible to enter. Legal entities with registered seat in Hungary or with registered seat in the European Economic Area and a branch office in Hungary may apply as specified below:
- business companies, non-profit companies and other economic organisations, provided that they have at least 1 completed and approved business year, 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 as specified in the call, qualifying as research and knowledge-dissemination organisations under Article 2 (83) of Council Regulation 651/2014/EU.
Eligible objectives
- travel costs of outgoing Hungarian researchers/students
- staying costs of outgoing Hungarian researchers/students in the destination country
- project-related travel costs of outgoing Hungarian researchers/students within the destination country
- dissemination of achieved results related to the project
- participation in international conferences (high profile events to be held in Hungary or the partner country or in another country, in the special field of the project)
Duration of the project
Projects should be implemented within 24 months.
Earliest commencing date for projects in the French and Austrian relations is 1 January 2022, while in other relations, earliest commencing date of projects is 1 March 2022.
Available funds and funding per projects
The total available budget of the call is HUF 200 million. Out of this, the French and Austrian relations are planned to receive HUF 20 million each.
Maximum amount of non-refundable funding applicants may apply for:
- HUF 2 million within Europe, in the case of partner institutions in countries bordering Hungary
- HUF 2.5 million within Europe, in the case of partner institutions in countries not bordering Hungary
- HUF 5 million in the case of partner institutions outside Europe.
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 calls financed from the National Development, Research and Innovation Fund promote the mobility of participants of research projects implemented in bilateral S&T cooperation in the given relation and increasingly facilitate larger project-based cooperation.
For the French relation of the 2021-1.2.4-TÉT, altogether 10 proposals were submitted between 10 June and 30 July 2021, with funding request of HUF 25 million. The proposals were assessed and ranked by a designated expert group. On motion of the international joint committee, the Innovation Board and the President of the NRDI Office recommended 6 proposals for funding to the Funder, valued HUF 15,000,000 in total.
According to the funding decision, 6 projects receive approximately HUF 15 million in non-refundable funding from the NRDI Fund.
FUNDED PROJECTS
Funding organisation: Ministry for Innovation and Technology
Source: NRDI Fund
Date of decision: 22 November 2021
Project code |
Name of applicant |
Project title |
Amount of awarded funds (HUF) |
Total eligible project costs (HUF) |
Site of implementation |
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2021-1.2.4-TÉT-2021-00011 | TERMÉSZETTUDOMÁNYI KUTATÓKÖZPONT | A malária parazita, Plasmodium falciparum genomi integritásának és potenciális gyógyszercélpontjainak vizsgálata | 2 500 000 | 2 500 000 | 1117 Budapest, Magyar Tudósok körútja 2. |
2021-1.2.4-TÉT-2021-00015 | Miskolci Egyetem | Növelt szilárdságú nanoszerkezetű fémek előállítása innovatív intenzív képlékenyalakítási eljárással | 2 500 000 | 2 500 000 | 3515 Miskolc (Egyetemváros), Egyetemváros |
2021-1.2.4-TÉT-2021-00010 | PÉCSI TUDOMÁNYEGYETEM | Tanulás és memória kialakulása a medián ráfe régió speciális, vezikuláris glutamát transzporter 3 tartalmú sejtjeinek segítségével | 2 500 000 | 2 500 000 | 7624 Pécs, Szigeti út 12. |
2021-1.2.4-TÉT-2021-00012 | PÉCSI TUDOMÁNYEGYETEM | A CO2 elektrokémiai redukciós reakciója során, a katalizátor közvetlen felületi pH hatásának monitorozása, pásztázó elektrokémiai mikroszkóppal | 2 500 000 | 2 500 000 | 7622 Pécs, Vasvári Pál u. 4. |
2021-1.2.4-TÉT-2021-00016 | Miskolci Egyetem | Potenciálisan klímaváltozást okozó gyök-gyök reakciók molekuláris vizsgálata | 2 500 000 | 2 500 000 | 3515 Miskolc (Egyetemváros), Egyetemváros |
2021-1.2.4-TÉT-2021-00013 | EÖTVÖS LORÁND TUDOMÁNYEGYETEM | Tempora et mores - Multidiszciplináris szemléletű tudástranszfer francia és magyar idősgondozással foglalkozó intézményekben | 2 500 000 | 2 500 000 |
1075 Budapest, Kazinczy utca 23. |
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 timing and the budget of the RDI funding schemes of the EU-financed operational programme (Economic Development and Innovation Operational Programme Plus - EDIOP Plus) has been approved by the Government within the Annual Development Plan (ADP), upon the proposal of the NRDI Office.
The 2021 calls for domestic RDI proposals financed from the NRDI Fund are set out in the annual Programme Strategy adopted by the Government.
(Government Decree 1077/2021. (II. 27.):
https://net.jogtar.hu/jogszabaly?docid=A21H1077.KOR&txtreferer=00000001.txt)
The table below shows the calls announced for the period 2021-2027 and their amounts, broken down by year.
Source |
Specificity |
Budget 2021 (Bn HUF) |
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NRF | RF | |||||
GINOP Plusz (EDIOP) (2021-2027) |
Economic Development and Innovation Operational Programme Plusz |
136,670 | - |
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NRDI Fund (2021-2027) |
National Research, Development and Innovation Fund |
182,292 |
- |
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ITM | Ministry for Innovation and Technology | 11 | - | |||
RRF | Recovery and Resilience Facility | 151,621 | - | |||
SUM |
|
481,583 | - |
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NRF= non-refundable RF= refundable |
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Source |
Calls for proposals |
Budget 2021 (Bn HUF) |
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NRF | RF | |||||
GINOP Plusz, ITM 2021-2027 |
Support of business RDI activities |
Stimulating business research, development and innovation GINOP Plusz-2.1.2-21 |
136,67 | - |
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Energetics Calls | The implementation of developments for the recovery, storage or market-based use of waste heat through innovative storage or conversion technologies 2021-2.1.2-HŐ |
5 | - |
|||
The implementation of developments promoting innovative electrochemical storage of surplus carbon-free electricity 2021-2.1.1-EK |
6 | - |
||||
RRF 2021 |
Recovery and Resilience Facility | Infrastructure and skills development for practice-oriented higher education RRF-2.1.2-21 |
79,956 | - | ||
Establishment and complex development of the National Laboratory RRF-2.3.1-21 |
71,665 | - | ||||
Innovation Sub-fund 2021 |
Support for market-driven RDI projects | Support for market-driven RDI projects 2020-1.1.2-PIACI KFI |
50 | - |
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KKV Start programme | KKV Start Innovation | 8 | - |
|||
Fast track programme | Fast track 2020-1.1.5-GYORSÍTÓSÁV |
2 | - |
|||
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 2021-1.1.1-IPARJOG |
0,4 | - | |||
University Innovation Ecosystema |
University Innovation Ecosystem 2019-1.2.1-EGYETEMI ÖKO |
2 | - |
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International programmes | 2021-1.2.2-EU_KKV (100 M HUF); 2020-1.2.3-EUREKA (1,4 Bn HUF); 2019-2.1.7-ERA-NET (~1,7 Bn HUF); 2019-2.1.3-NEMZ_ECSEL (350 M HUF); 2019-2.1.2-NEMZ (453 M HUF); 2020-1.2.1-GYAK (50 M HUF); 2021-1.2.1-EIT-KIC (500 M HUF); 2021-1.2.4-TÉT (200 M HUF); 2021-1.2.5-TÉT-IPARI-RU (160 M HUF) | 4,5 | - | |||
Market entry |
Market entry | 1 | - |
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Investment in the future Fund | Investment in the future 2020-1.1.6-JÖVŐ |
7 | - |
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Alkalmazott kutatói hálózat fejlesztése | Participation in the National Network of Applied Research Institutes 2021-1.1.2-AKH |
1,63 | - |
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Research Sub-fund 2021 |
Thematic Excellence Programme 2021 | Thematic Excellence Programme TKP2021 |
75 | - |
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New National Excellence Programme | New National Excellence Programme – Call for Research Scholarship Applications for Undergraduate Students ÚNKP-21-1 |
0,60 | - |
|||
New National Excellence Programme – Call for Research Scholarship Applications for Graduate Students ÚNKP-21-2 |
- | |||||
New National Excellence Programme – Call for Research Scholarship Applications for PhD Students ÚNKP-21-3 |
1 | - | ||||
New National Excellence Programme – “Power Up Science!” Call for Research Scholarship Applications for Doctoral Candidate sand Postdoctors ÚNKP-21-4 |
0,832 | - | ||||
New National Excellence Programme – Call for Scholarship Applications for Bolyai+ Higher Education Teachers and Researchers ÚNKP-21-5 |
1,40 | - | ||||
New National Excellence Programme – “Power up your Talent!” Call for Research Scholarship Applications for New Higher Education Students ÚNKP-21-6 |
0,168 | - | ||||
Postdoctoral and Young researchers’ excellence programme and Call for thematic research projects | Postdoctoral and Young researchers’ excellence programme and Call for thematic research projects (OTKA) PD_21, FK_21, K_21, ANN_21, SNN_21 |
13 | - | |||
Patronage Programme | Science Patronage Programme MEC_21 |
1 | - | |||
Funding for research groups with achievements of internationally outstanding impact | Funding for research groups with achievements of internationally outstanding impact |
1 | - | |||
Forefront – Research Excellence Programme | Forefront – Research Excellence Programme KKP_21 |
3 | - | |||
Cooperative Doctoral Programme | Cooperative Doctoral Programme KDP-2021 |
8,762 | - |