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Thematic Excellence Programme
Date of announcement: 16 august 2021
Modified:
Next deadline for submission:
Deadline for E-submission: 22 september 2021 16:00
22 september 2021
Deadline for application via post office:
Submitter of proposal
Budgetary institution, Non-profit organisation
Beneficiary groups
Institution of higher education, Non-profit research organisation, Institution of the Eötvös Loránd Research Network (ELKH)
Budget
HUF 75 000 000 000
Number of applications
15-30 / subprogramme
Funds available per project
HUF 5-2000 M
Project duration
12 momnths, max. 31.12.2025
Field of research activity
Fundamental research, Industrial research, Experimental development, Innovation, Protection of industrial property rights
Evaluator of proposals
NRDI Office
As a continuation of the previous programmes to promote institutional excellence – the Excellence Programme for Higher Education Institutions (FKIP) and the Thematic Excellence Programme (TIP) –, the 2021 Thematic Excellence Programme will provide support for university knowledge centres and research centres for their research, development and innovation activities until the end of 2025.

Eligible applicants

Applications for this call for proposals may be submitted by legal entities established in Hungary and qualified as research and knowledge-dissemination organisations as follows:

  • organisations that have received grant under the TKP 2020 IKA subprogramme,
  • non-state higher education institutions maintained by public interest asset management foundations established by the state, a church and or the Hungarian State or
  • research centres, research institutes, budgetary organs and budgetary entities, budgetary organs and their institutions with legal personality and non-profit organisations.

The call is not open to consortia.

Under this Call, the applicant may apply for a continuation of thematic research funded under the 2020 TKP IKA subprogramme or for new, independent thematic research which, in order to avoid double funding, is not currently fully or partially funded under the TKP 2020 NKA subprogramme running until the end of 2022.

Eligible project objectives

Thematic research projects that can be implemented under three subprogrammes:

  • Health Subprogramme: Medical and veterinary research, drug discovery, biology, biotechnology, chemistry, translational medicine, brain research, cancer research, safe food, clinical research on COVID-19 disease and post-COVID syndrome, etc.
  • National Research Subprogramme: Culture and family; Secure society and environment; Industry and digitalisation.
  • National Defence, National Security Subprogramme: Developing solutions for the protection and security of civilians against hostilities and disasters (e.g. cyber defence, artificial intelligence, sensor technology and signal processing, laser technology, robotics, radio engineering, energy security, cognitive enhancement, personal communication development, developments and research to improve the physical and physiological condition of persons performing tasks in special circumstances, etc.)

Total budget

The total budget is HUF 75 billion (HUF 25 billion per subprogramme), including the Cooperative Doctoral Programme (CDP), closely linked to the TKP National Defence, National Security Subprogramme, with a budget of HUF 1 billion, to be announced as a separate call for proposals, aiming at increasing the number of highly qualified, scientifically skilled personnel in the field of defence R&D and innovation.

Available funds

  • Health Subprogramme: from HUF 50 million up to HUF 2,000 million.
  • National Research Subprogramme: up to HUF 1,000 million.
  • National Defence, National Security Subprogramme: up to HUF 2,000 million.

Project duration

Minimum 12 months but for the period of up to 31 December 2025 at the most.

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.

Funding decision in the 2021 Thematic Excellence Programme
Under the 2021 Thematic Excellence Programme, the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund will support the research of 39 knowledge dissemination organisations in 80 thematic areas, worth around HUF 75 billion.

The Thematic Excellence Programme (TIP 2021) was launched on 16 August 2021, as a continuation of the previous programmes to promote excellence in institutions – the Excellence Programme for Higher Education Institutions (HEIP) and the Thematic Excellence Programme (TIP) – which will provide funding for research and innovation activities of knowledge dissemination organisations, mainly university knowledge hubs and research centres, until the end of 2025.

The aim of the TKP 2021 is for knowledge dissemination organisations to build on their professional excellence and carry out thematic research and development programmes (including basic research, applied research and experimental development) in order to

  1. generate basic research results that will contribute to the development of responses to civilisation challenges or provide the basis for applied research and experimental development based on them, and to trigger further development and innovation processes within the institution;
  2. develop a product, prototype, technology or service with significant scientific and/or technical novelty;
  3. make the product, technology or service resulting from the thematic research commercially viable;
  4. improve the research conditions;
  5. increase scientific productivity;
  6. improve the conditions for the next generation of scientists and researchers;
  7. make the results of Hungarian science more visible, and increase the participation of Hungarian scientists in international R&D programmes, in particular in EU Framework Programmes for Research and Innovation;
  8. put a stronger focus on research and innovation in the operation of higher education institutions and research centres;
  9. ensure the social, economic and environmental use of research results and provide support for related initiatives;
  10. facilitate cooperation with non-institutional actors in the thematic area and contribute to the conclusion of research and development agreements;
  11. promote the commercial or societal utility of the product, technology or service resulting from thematic research.

Under the call, funding requests can be submitted for 3 research areas (Health (EGA); National Research (NRC); and National Defence and Security (NDA)), each with a budget of HUF 25 billion from which up to HUF 2 billion may be awarded to a project proposal.

The number of proposals supported per sub-programme is 29 in the Health sub-programme, 27 in the National Research sub-programme, and 24 in the National Defence, National Security sub-programme.

Funded institutions per research area (per sub-programme)

Source: NRDI Fund
Date of decision: 24 November 2021

Health sub-programme (EGA)
Proposal ID Name of beneficiary institution Amount of funding (HUF)
TKP2021-EGA-01 ELKH Állatorvostudományi Kutatóintézet 343 126 000
TKP2021-EGA-02 Budapesti Műszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem 750 000 000
TKP2021-EGA-04 Energiatudományi Kutatóközpont - Műszaki Fizikai és Anyagtudományi Intézet 360 811 664
TKP2021-EGA-05 HCEMM Nonprofit Kft. 1 769 511 760
TKP2021-EGA-07 Heim Pál Országos Gyermekgyógyászati Intézet 1 110 259 570
TKP2021-EGA-08 Dél-pesti Centrumkórház - Országos Hematológiai és Infektológiai Intézet 1 200 000 000
TKP2021-EGA-09 Szegedi Biológiai Kutatóközpont 1 154 400 000
TKP2021-EGA-10 Pécsi Tudományegyetem 990 714 286
TKP2021-EGA-13 Pécsi Tudományegyetem 1 597 888 480
TKP2021-EGA-16 Pécsi Tudományegyetem 1 493 394 283
TKP2021-EGA-17 Pécsi Tudományegyetem 1 200 000 001
TKP2021-EGA-18 Debreceni Egyetem 1 600 000 000
TKP2021-EGA-19 Debreceni Egyetem 960 000 000
TKP2021-EGA-20 Debreceni Egyetem 1 000 000 000
TKP2021-EGA-21 Széchenyi István Egyetem 249 999 952
TKP2021-EGA-22 Országos Mozgásszervi Intézet-ORFI 114 800 000
TKP2021-EGA-23 Semmelweis Egyetem 1 400 000 000
TKP2021-EGA-24 Semmelweis Egyetem 1 600 000 000
TKP2021-EGA-25 Semmelweis Egyetem 1 200 000 000
TKP2021-EGA-28 Szegedi Tudományegyetem 1 000 000 000
TKP2021-EGA-29 Semmelweis Egyetem 510 000 000
TKP2021-EGA-30 Semmelweis Egyetem 64 000 000
TKP2021-EGA-31 Természettudományi Kutatóközpont 324 762 018
TKP2021-EGA-32 Szegedi Tudományegyetem 1 599 972 148
TKP2021-EGA-33 Országos Korányi Pulmonológiai Intézet 395 200 750
TKP2021-EGA-35 Országos Mozgásszervi Intézet-OORI 52 548 000
TKP2021-EGA-37 Testnevelési Egyetem 399 890 609
TKP2021-EGA-42 Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem 701 016 839
TKP2021-EGA-44 Országos Onkológiai Intézet 928 000 000
SUM 26 070 296 360
National Research sub-programme (NKTA)
Proposal ID Name of beneficiary institution Amount of funding (HUF)
(Ft)
TKP2021-NKTA-01 Számítástechnikai és Automatizálási Kutatóintézet 980 242 850
TKP2021-NKTA-02 Nyelvtudományi Kutatóközpont Nyelvtechnológiai és Alkalmazott Nyelvészeti Intézet 161 655 300
TKP2021-NKTA-03 Nemzeti Biodiverzitás- és Génmegőrzési Központ 722 000 000
TKP2021-NKTA-05 Energiatudományi Kutatóközpont 547 249 513
TKP2021-NKTA-06 Agrártudományi Kutatóközpont - Mezőgazdasági Intézet 1 498 251 116
TKP2021-NKTA-07 Bay Zoltán Közhasznú Nonprofit Kft. 1 916 666 666
TKP2021-NKTA-10 Wigner Fizikai Kutatóközpont 340 393 000
TKP2021-NKTA-15 Bölcsészettudományi Kutatóközpont 198 793 000
TKP2021-NKTA-16 Eszterházy Károly Katolikus Egyetem 1 035 201 682
TKP2021-NKTA-19 Pécsi Tudományegyetem 1 289 000 000
TKP2021-NKTA-21 Pannon Egyetem 1 140 000 000
TKP2021-NKTA-22 Miskolci Egyetem 950 000 000
TKP2021-NKTA-24 Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum 212 304 853
TKP2021-NKTA-32 Debreceni Egyetem 1 400 000 000
TKP2021-NKTA-34 Debreceni Egyetem 1 400 000 000
TKP2021-NKTA-36 Óbudai Egyetem 480 000 000
TKP2021-NKTA-42 Atommagkutató Intézet 1 191 526 000
TKP2021-NKTA-43 Soproni Egyetem 1 966 195 000
TKP2021-NKTA-44 Budapesti Gazdasági Egyetem 300 000 000
TKP2021-NKTA-46 Semmelweis Egyetem 1 200 000 000
TKP2021-NKTA-47 Semmelweis Egyetem 1 000 000 000
TKP2021-NKTA-48 Széchenyi István Egyetem 990 000 000
TKP2021-NKTA-51 Nemzeti Közszolgálati Egyetem 999 000 000
TKP2021-NKTA-55 Testnevelési Egyetem 182 620 000
TKP2021-NKTA-62 Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem 1 000 000 000
TKP2021-NKTA-64 Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem 2 000 000 000
TKP2021-NKTA-66 Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem 418 647 001
SUM 25 519 745 981
National Defence, National Security sub-programme (NVA)
Proposal ID Name of beneficiary institution Amount of funding (HUF)
(Ft)
TKP2021-NVA-01 Számítástechnikai és Automatizálási Kutatóintézet 990 200 000
TKP2021-NVA-02 Budapesti Műszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem 2 000 000 000
TKP2021-NVA-03 Energiatudományi Kutatóközpont - Műszaki Fizikai és Anyagtudományi Intézet 297 431 062
TKP2021-NVA-04 Wigner Fizikai Kutatóközpont - Szilárdtestfizikai és Optikai Intézet 1 010 622 128
TKP2021-NVA-05 Gábor Dénes Főiskola 702 074 400
TKP2021-NVA-06 Pécsi Tudományegyetem 428 256 429
TKP2021-NVA-07 Pécsi Tudományegyetem 942 857 143
TKP2021-NVA-09 Szegedi Tudományegyetem 1 199 519 969
TKP2021-NVA-10 Pannon Egyetem 1 000 000 000
TKP2021-NVA-11 Semmelweis Egyetem 298 616 750
TKP2021-NVA-12 Semmelweis Egyetem 653 762 000
TKP2021-NVA-13 Soproni Egyetem 799 978 000
TKP2021-NVA-14 Miskolci Egyetem 981 912 000
TKP2021-NVA-15 Semmelweis Egyetem 750 000 000
TKP2021-NVA-16 Nemzeti Közszolgálati Egyetem 1 971 943 800
TKP2021-NVA-18 Nemzeti Közszolgálati Egyetem 570 000 000
TKP2021-NVA-19 Szegedi Tudományegyetem 1 199 999 797
TKP2021-NVA-20 Semmelweis Egyetem 600 000 000
TKP2021-NVA-22 Magyar Agrár- és Élettudományi Egyetem 2 000 000 000
TKP2021-NVA-23 Széchenyi István Egyetem 1 600 000 000
TKP2021-NVA-24 Katonai Nemzetbiztonsági Szolgálat 1 969 400 000
TKP2021-NVA-26 Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem 182 858 976
TKP2021-NVA-27 Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem 843 071 180
TKP2021-NVA-29 Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem 1 200 000 000
SUM 24 192 503 635
Updated: 04 March 2022
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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 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 2022 calls for domestic RDI proposals financed from the NRDI Fund are set out in the annual Programme Strategy adopted by the Government.
(Government Decree 1414/2022. (VIII. 18.)

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)

Budget
2022
(Bn HUF)

NRF RF NRF RF
GINOP Plusz (EDIOP)
Economic Development and Innovation Operational Programme Plusz
136,670 - 5 -
NRDI Fund
National Research, Development and Innovation Fund
189,384 - 143,8293
-
ITM (2021) Ministry for Innovation and Technology (2021) 11 - - -
RRF Recovery and Resilience Facility 153,141 - 39,750 -
SUM
 
490,195 - 188,5793 -

NRF= non-refundable
RF= refundable

Source
Calls for proposals
Budget
2021
(Bn HUF)

Budget
2022
(Bn HUF)
NRF RF NRF RF

GINOP Plusz
2021-2022

ITM
2021

Support of business RDI activities
Stimulating business research, development and innovation
GINOP Plusz-2.1.2-21
136,67 - - -
Targeted R&D services Targeted R&D services to businesses, research sites, and research and knowledge-dissemination organisations
GINOP Plusz-2.2.1-22
- - 5 -
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
2021-2022
Practice-oriented higher education Infrastructure and skills development for practice-oriented higher education
RRF-2.1.2-21
81,476 - - -
National Laboratories Establishment and complex development of the National Laboratory
RRF-2.3.1-21
71,765 - - -
Higher education courses and services adapted to the core activities of adult education institution Institutional innovation of higher education courses and services adapted to the core activities of adult education institutions and strengthening of adult learning activities in higher education
RRF-2.1.3- 22
- - 39,750 -
Innovation Sub-fund
2021-2022
Support for market-driven RDI projects Support for market-driven RDI projects
2020-1.1.2-PIACI KFI; 2021-1.1.3-PIACI KFI
59,06 - 40,4673 -
KKV Start programme KKV Start Innovation
2020-1.1.1-KKV START
12 - - -
Fast track programme Fast track
2020-1.1.5-GYORSÍTÓSÁV; 2021-1.1.4-GYORSÍTÓSÁV
3 - 12,85 -
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
0,4 - 0,3 -
University Innovation Ecosystema
University Innovation Ecosystem
2019-1.2.1-EGYETEMI ÖKO
2 - - -
International programmes 2019-2.1.3-NEMZ_ECSEL (2021); 2019-2.1.2-NEMZ (2021); 2020-1.2.1-GYAK (2021); 2021-1.2.1-EIT-KIC (2021); 2021-1.2.4-TÉT (2021); 2021-1.2.5-TÉT-IPARI-RU (2021) 2019-2.1.7-ERA-NET (2021. 2022); 2020-1.2.3-EUREKA (2021, 2022); 2021-1.2.2-EU_KKV (2021. 2022); 2021-1.2.3-EU_KP (2021, 2022); 2021-4.1.2-NEMZ_KI (2021, 2022); 2021-1.2.6-TÉT-IPARI-MA (2021), 2022-1.2.4-EUREKA (2022); 2022-1.2.6-TÉT-IPARI-TR (2022); 2022-1.2.3-GYAK (2022); 2022-1.2.2-TÉT-IPARI-UZ (2022), 2022-1.2.5-TÉT-IPARI-KR (2022) 3,5 - 6 -
Centres of excellence
Establishing and developing centres of excellence2022-1.1.1-KK - - 20,7 -
Startup Programme Startup Programme - - 8,5 -
Investment in the future Fund Investment in the future
2020-1.1.6-JÖVŐ
7 - - -
Development of an applied research network Participation in the National Network of Applied Research Institutes
2021-1.1.2-AKH
1,63 - - -
Research Sub-fund
2021
-2022
Thematic Excellence Programme 2021 Thematic Excellence Programme
TKP2021
75 - - -
New National Excellence Programme New National Excellence Programme – Call for Research Scholarship Applications for Undergraduate Students
ÚNKP-21-1; ÚNKP-22-1
0,60 - 0,828 -
New National Excellence Programme – Call for Research Scholarship Applications for Graduate Students
ÚNKP-21-2; ÚNKP-22-2
New National Excellence Programme – Call for Research Scholarship Applications for PhD Students
ÚNKP-21-3; ÚNKP-22-3
1 - 1,2 -
New National Excellence Programme – “Power Up Science!” Call for Research Scholarship Applications for Doctoral Candidate sand Postdoctors
ÚNKP-21-4; ÚNKP-22-4
0,832 - 1,052 -
New National Excellence Programme – Call for Scholarship Applications for Bolyai+ Higher Education Teachers and Researchers
ÚNKP-21-5; ÚNKP-22-5
1,40 - 0,70 -
New National Excellence Programme – “Power up your Talent!” Call for Research Scholarship Applications for New Higher Education Students
ÚNKP-21-6; ÚNKP-22-6
0,168 - 0,22 -
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
PD_22, FK_22, K_22, ANN_22, SNN_22
12,9 - 13,5 -
Patronage Programme Science Patronage Programme
MEC_21
1 - - -
Forefront – Research Excellence Programme Forefront – Research Excellence Programme
KKP_21, KKP_22
3 - 3 -
Cooperative Doctoral Programme Cooperative Doctoral Programme
KDP-2021
4,894 - 2,832 -
Strategic R&D centres Strategic R&D centres
SKFM-2022
- - 3 -
Development of the Selye János Student Lab Network Development of the Selye János Student Lab Network - - 2 -
National Laboratories Sub-fund
2022
National Laboratories Establishment and complex development of the National Laboratories
2022-2.1.1-NL
- - 26,6 -
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