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