Deadline for submission: 27 February 2017
The postdoc call (PD_17) financed from the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund contributes to the strengthening of centres of excellence in Hungary by funding researchers under 40 years of age with a doctoral degree and by creating a predictable domestic postdoctoral system.
The new postdoc call is the starting point for developing the system which ensures a predictable career for researchers. Researchers of early career stages but already holding a doctoral degree can form the future scientific community expected to develop new methods and procedures, dynamically revive and reinforce centres of excellence, launch pioneering research projects and train the next generation of researchers.
Submission of project proposals
Applications can be submitted electronically through the Online Application Portal of the NRDI Office by 27 February 2017. The submission is successful if the application was finalised electronically by the researcher and approved by the host institution, and if the hard copies of all required documents were received by the customer service of the NRDI Office via regular mail, postmarked no later than 9 March 2017. Applications may not be submitted in person.
All applications must be submitted in English irrespective of the field of science. In certain cases applicants may be exempted from the requirement of submission in English if the NRDI Office has given its prior consent — upon a request to this effect submitted electronically by 13 February 2017 — to the submission of the application in Hungarian with reference to the fact that, according to the reasons provided by the applicant, the research project can only be properly assessed by Hungarian experts.
Who can apply
Researchers with Hungarian or foreign nationality may apply jointly with a host institution seated in Hungary which shall be
- a higher education institution, research centre, research institution, budgetary organ or an institution thereof having legal personality if it qualifies as a research organisation;
- a business company having at least one full financial year closed, applying double-entry bookkeeping, not belonging to the scope of simplified entrepreneurial tax (EVA) (only non-profit activities are eligible for funding);
- a non-profit organisation pursuing research and development as core activity.
Once selected for funding, the postdoctoral researcher shall be employed full-time by the host institution under an employment contract, civil service contract or other work-related legal relationship, throughout the entire implementation period.
Further eligibility terms for postdoctors
A postdoctor can be considered eligible only if his/her PhD/DLA diploma is dated no later than 1 January 2010. If the postdoctor does not possess the doctoral diploma when applying for funding, but the awarding decision has already been made by the doctoral council of the university, this fact must be evidenced by an official document. Applications may only be submitted by researchers not reaching the age of 40 years by 9 March 2017. Upon request, this age limit may be raised with the period spent on maternity leave or full-time child-care.
The applicant must undertake to work on the tasks specified in the application in 70% of his/her work time.
One applicant may only submit one application. At the time of submitting the application and, if selected for funding, during the PD_17 funding period the applicant is allowed to be the leader or participant in a researcher-initiated research project (funded under K, NK, NF or NN type schemes) or the leader of a project funded under a postdoctoral call providing only research funding (former OTKA, PD1 type schemes), if these projects thematically overlap.
Eligible objectives and actions
The postdoc call is open for discovery research projects in any field of science without thematic priorities, provided that the application meets the conditions specified in the call.
Activities included in the project plan developed on the basis of the research and work plan outlined in the postdoc application submitted to the NRDI Office are eligible for funding.
The postdoc call is only to cover wage-like disbursements to the postdoctor as well as related taxes payable by the employer, therefore to seek funding for their independent research projects this year, awarded postdoctoral researchers can apply for and win further funds under the calls K_17 and FK_17 or under the call NN_17 in the case of projects to be implemented in international cooperation.
Available budget
In order to achieve the objectives of the call the NRDI Office has earmarked a total budget of HUF 1.5 billion from the NRDI Fund for the 2017–2019 period in line with the Act on the Central Budget and with regard to the programme strategy of the NRDI Fund. From this amount HUF 0.5 billion can be disbursed in 2017.
Funding amount and eligible expenditure
The maximum amount of funding is HUF 15.408 million per project for a period of up to 36 months. Maximum funding intensity is 100%.
In addition to the personal remuneration payable to the postdoctor and related taxes payable by the employer, overhead costs are eligible up to 5% only. The eligible amount of wage is HUF 330,000 per month.
Duration of the project
Funded projects shall be implemented within 36 months from project launch. Projects shall commence between 1 September 2017 and 1 December 2017.
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 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) |
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NRF | RF | NRF | RF | |||||
GINOP Plusz (EDIOP) |
Economic Development and Innovation Operational Programme Plusz |
136,670 | - | 5 | - |
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NRDI Fund |
National Research, Development and Innovation Fund |
189,384 | - |
143,8293 |
- |
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ITM (2021) | Ministry for Innovation and Technology (2021) | 11 | - | - | - | |||
RRF | Recovery and Resilience Facility | 153,141 | - | 39,750 | - | |||
SUM |
|
490,195 | - | 188,5793 | - |
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NRF= non-refundable RF= refundable |
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Source |
Calls for proposals |
Budget 2021 (Bn HUF) |
Budget 2022 (Bn HUF) |
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NRF | RF | NRF | RF | |||||
GINOP Plusz ITM |
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 | - |
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KKV Start programme | KKV Start Innovation 2020-1.1.1-KKV START |
12 | - | - | - |
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Fast track programme | Fast track 2020-1.1.5-GYORSÍTÓSÁV; 2021-1.1.4-GYORSÍTÓSÁV |
3 | - | 12,85 | - |
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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 | - | - | - |
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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 | - |
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Startup Programme | Startup Programme | - | - | 8,5 | - | |||
Investment in the future Fund | Investment in the future 2020-1.1.6-JÖVŐ |
7 | - | - | - |
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Development of an applied research network | Participation in the National Network of Applied Research Institutes 2021-1.1.2-AKH |
1,63 | - | - | - |
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Research Sub-fund 2021-2022 |
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; 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 |
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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 | - |