You are here: For the applicantsFunding schemesCalls to foster RDIArchived callsThe 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)
The implementation of developments for the recovery, storage or market-based use of waste heat through innovative storage or conversion technologies
Date of announcement: 05 may 2021
Modified:
Next deadline for submission:
Deadline for E-submission: 26 july 2021 16:00
26 july 2021
Deadline for application via post office:
Submitter of proposal
Budgetary institution, Enterprise, Non-profit organisation
Beneficiary groups
Institution of higher education, Other budgetary research institution, Enterprise-based research organisation, Enterprise (non-research type), Non-profit research organisation, Institution of the Eötvös Loránd Research Network (ELKH)
Budget
HUF 5 000 000 000
Number of applications
2-3
Funds available per project
HUF 1000 - 3000 M
Project duration
36 months
Field of research activity
Innovation
Evaluator of proposals
NRDI Office
A priority objective of the European Union is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40% by 2030 compared to 1990 levels at Member State level. The spreading use of energy from carbon-free energy sources will greatly contribute to the achievement of this environmental policy objective.

The Call aims to support pilot projects that will underpin the market entry of viable (in consideration also of technical and environmental aspects) thermal storage, heat transport, power-to-heat and heat-to-power technologies, by:

  • facilitating the recovery and storage of unused waste heat and the subsequent sale of stored heat on the market (FCR, aFRR, mFRR, balancing group, energy arbitrage, etc.) and thus the generation of additional turnover;
  • applying innovative technologies, methods and procedures;
  • when implemented as a pilot project, facilitating the exploitation of the domestic potential for research, education and industrial realization (not excluding the acquisition of foreign technology, know-how and/or equipment) in order to facilitate subsequent market entry;
  • promoting the participation of applicants using such technology in several markets (electricity and heat), thereby supporting the increase in the regulatory potential required by renewable energy producers, on the one hand, and contributing to the improvement of operational efficiency and to financing any further necessary improvements through cost savings or the generation of additional revenues, on the other hand;
  • implementing the power-to-heat solution, they are capable of feeding electrical energy that cannot be used at a given time in district heating systems;
  • they can convert waste heat into electricity and to ensure its market sale or it local use;
  • allowing the results of the pilot project to be applied to commercial-scale market launches owing to their size and nominal performance;
  • helping reduce heat pollution while producing a "product" (heat or electricity) that can be used elsewhere.

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 application form must be submitted together with a duly signed statement verifying the electronic submission of the application, in line with the Application Guidelines.

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.

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
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
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    
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