Eligible applicants
The call is open to beneficiaries of the 2019 Thematic Excellence Programme and the 2019 Excellence Programme for Higher Education Institutions, if they have a legal personality and a registered seat in Hungary and operate in any of the following forms:
- higher education institution, research centre, research institution, budgetary organ or a budgetary organ institution with legal personality if it qualifies as a research facility under the RDI Act;
- non-profit organisation qualifying as a research facility under the RDI Act;
The call is not open to consortia.
Eligible project objectives
Thematic research projects implemented in the following two subprogrammes:
- Institutional Excellence Subprogramme: The thematic projects independently determined by the higher education institutions justifiably exploit the research strengths of the institutions that were supported under the 2019 Excellence Programme for Higher Education Institutions (FIKP) in accordance with their institutional development plan. The thematic projects funded in 2019 and intended to be continued this year must be professionally developed in compliance with the above criteria.
- National Challenges Subprogramme: The funded thematic projects are related to one of the following four research areas identified as government priorities in the call for proposals of the 2019 Thematic Excellence Programme: Secure Society & Environment, Health, Industry & Digitisation, Culture & Family. The thematic projects funded in 2019 and intended to be continued this year must be professionally developed in compliance with the above criteria. Furthermore, the thematic research projects also need to address one of the following objectives identified as social challenges in the programme:
- Innovation for competitiveness (sustainable growth, technology, industry, innovation);
- Science for our future (science for the Hungarian community, natural and environmental challenges, internationally recognized scientific results, utilisation of scientific results);
- Life prospects of generations (Hungarians, population trends, aging society, migration, education and mobility, health, youth, living standards, territorial convergence, families and communities).
Total budget
The expected total budget of the integrated funding scheme is HUF 47.45 billion in the following breakdown:
- Institutional Excellence Subprogramme: HUF 15 billion
- National Challenges Subprogramme: HUF 32.45 billion
Maximum amount of funding per project
- Institutional Excellence Subprogramme: from HUF 100 million up to HUF 2,250 million.
- National Challenges Subprogramme: from HUF 35 million up to HUF 2,000 million.
Project duration
- Institutional Excellence Subprogramme: 1 year (last year’s funding for previously started FIKP thematic projects)
- National Challenges Subprogramme: up to 2 years (continued funding for previously started TKP thematic projects)
The Thematic Excellence Programme 2020 provides nearly HUF 43.9 billion to 27 scientific institutions (higher education institutions and public research institutes) for 92 thematic research projects from the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund.
This year’s programme integrates the Programme for Higher Education Institutions 2018-2019 and the Thematic Excellence Programme 2019. This way, the new integrated funding scheme for the year 2020 was open to applicants that received funding under one of these previous programmes.
The 2020 programme supports the implementation of thematic research projects based on the professional excellence of higher education institutions and public research institutes in order to
- develop a product, technology or service with a significant scientific or technical novelty;
- make the resulting product, technology or service commercially viable;
- improve the system of research criteria;
- attract more young people to research careers;
- increase the international embeddedness of the Hungarian research community;
- strengthen the research, development and innovation focus;
- ensure the social, economic and environmental use of research results and provide support for related initiatives;
- facilitate partnering with other actors in the RDI segment;
- increase the commercial or social use of the product, technology or service resulting from the thematic research project.
FUNDED INSTITUTIONS
Source: NRDI Fund
Date of decision: 13 August 2020
Name of beneficiary institutions |
Amount of funding (HUF) |
---|---|
University of Veterinary Medicine |
900 000 000 |
Budapest Business School |
100 000 000 |
Corvinus University of Budapest |
600 000 000 |
Budapest University of Technology and Economics |
2 600 000 000 |
University of Debrecen |
6 400 000 000 |
University of Dunaújváros |
500 000 000 |
Eötvös Loránd University |
5 400 000 000 |
Gál Ferenc College |
70 000 000 |
University of Kaposvár |
757 692 310 |
University of Miskolc |
1 700 000 000 |
National University of Public Service |
333 200 000 |
University of Pannonia |
1 500 000 000 |
Pázmány Péter Catholic University |
327 408 420 |
University of Pécs |
3 080 000 000 |
Semmelweis University |
4 910 000 000 |
Széchenyi István University |
1 550 000 000 |
University of Szeged |
5 650 000 000 |
Szent István University |
1 705 750 000 |
Bay Zoltán Non-profit Ltd. for Applied Research |
1 520 000 000 |
South Pest Central Hospital |
1 000 000 000 |
Eötvös Loránd Research Network, Humanities Research Centre |
400 000 000 |
Cereal Research Non-profit Ltd. |
250 000 000 |
Mining and Geological Survey of Hungary |
406 000 000 |
Institute for Hungarian Studies |
420 875 622 |
National Agricultural Research and Innovation Centre |
520 189 760 |
National Centre for Biodiversity and Gene Conservation |
599 960 000 |
National Institute of Oncology |
979 730 250 |
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 2023 supports the implementation of Hungary’s new innovation strategy, the John von Neumann Programme, which focuses on connecting universities, research institutions and the economy. The priority objective of the Programme Strategy 2023 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 announced under the NRDI Fund for the period 2021–2027 and their amounts, broken down by year.
2021 | 2022 | 2023 | ||||
NRDI budget (Bn HUF) |
191,384 | 143,829 | 78,670 | |||
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) |
|
Innovation Sub-fund 2021-2023 |
Support for market-driven RDI projects Support for market-driven RDI projects 2020-1.1.2-PIACI KFI |
59,06 | Support for market-driven RDI projects Support for market-driven RDI projects 2021-1.1.3-PIACI KFI |
50,00 | Support for Innovation Projects in Focus Areas 2023-1.1.1-PIACI_FÓKUSZ |
35,00 |
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 (Call for proposal will be announced later) |
2,00 | |
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 | |
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 |
6,10 | |
Investment in the future Fund Investment in the future 2020-1.1.6-JÖVŐ |
7,00 | Centres of excellence Establishing and developing centres of excellence 2022-1.1.1-KK |
20,70 | Incubator Support Scheme (Call for proposal will be announced later) |
5,00 | |
Development of an applied research network Participation in the National Network of Applied Research Institutes 2021-1.1.2-AKH |
1,63 | Startup Programme Startup Programme 2022-1.1.2-STARTUP |
4,06 | Research Excellence ‘Proof of Concept’ Programme (Call for proposal will be announced later) |
3,00 | |
University Innovation Ecosystema University Innovation Ecosystema 2019-1.2.1-EGYETEMI ÖKO |
4,00 | |||||
KKV Start programme KKV Start Innovation 2020-1.1.1-KKV START |
12,00 | |||||
Research Sub-fund 2021-2023 |
Thematic Excellence Programme (National-Health-Defence) Thematic Excellence Programme 2021 TKP2021 |
75,00 | ||||
New National Excellence Programme | 0,600 | New National Excellence Programme | 0,828 | New National Excellence Programme | 0,710 | |
Call for Research Scholarship Applications for Undergraduate Students ÚNKP-21-1 |
Call for Research Scholarship Applications for Undergraduate Students ÚNKP-22-1 |
Call for Research Scholarship Applications for Undergraduate Students ÚNKP-23-1 |
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Call for Research Scholarship Applications for Graduate Students ÚNKP-21-2 |
Call for Research Scholarship Applications for Graduate Students ÚNKP-22-2 |
Call for Research Scholarship Applications for Graduate Students ÚNKP-23-2 |
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Call for Research Scholarship Applications for PhD Students ÚNKP-21-3 |
1,00 | Call for Research Scholarship Applications for PhD Students ÚNKP-22-3 |
1,20 | Call for Research Scholarship Applications for PhD Students ÚNKP-23-3 |
1,029 | |
“Power Up Science!” Call for Research Scholarship Applications for Doctoral Candidate sand ÚNKP-21-4 |
0,832 | “Power Up Science!” Call for Research Scholarship Applications for Doctoral Candidate sand ÚNKP-22-4 |
1,052 | “Power Up Science!” Call for Research Scholarship Applications for Doctoral Candidate sand ÚNKP-23-4 |
0,902 | |
Call for Scholarship Applications for Bolyai+ Higher Education Teachers and Researchers ÚNKP-21-5 |
1,40 | Call for Scholarship Applications for Bolyai+ Higher Education Teachers and Researchers ÚNKP-22-5 |
0,70 | Call for Scholarship Applications for Bolyai+ Higher Education Teachers and Researchers ÚNKP-23-5 | 0,60 | |
“Power up your Talent!” Call for Research Scholarship Applications for New Higher Education Students ÚNKP-21-6 |
0,168 | “Power up your Talent!” Call for Research Scholarship Applications for New Higher Education Students ÚNKP-22-6 |
0,220 | “Power up your Talent!” Call for Research Scholarship Applications for New Higher Education Students ÚNKP-23-6 |
0,189 | |
Cooperative Doctoral Programme Cooperative Doctoral Programme KDP-2021 |
4,894 | Cooperative Doctoral Programme Cooperative Doctoral Programme KDP-2021 |
2,832 | Cooperative Doctoral Programme Cooperative Doctoral Programme KDP-2023 |
5,070 | |
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 |
12,90 | 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_22, FK_22, K_22, ANN_22, SNN_22 |
13,50 | 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_23, FK_23, K_23, SNN_23 |
13,50 | |
Forefront – Research Excellence Programme Forefront – Research Excellence Programme KKP_21 |
3,00 | Forefront – Research Excellence Programme Forefront – Research Excellence Programme KKP_22 |
3,00 | Forefront Plus – Research Excellence Programme (Call for proposal will be announced later) |
5,00 | |
Patronage Programme Science Patronage Programme MEC_21 |
1,00 | 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 |