Deadline for submission: 31 August 2017
The call aims to help domestic research groups with excellent, internationally acclaimed scientific achievements to produce further results which significantly contribute to the development of their scientific field and lay the groundwork for further research by implementing their project in a Hungarian host institution and by presenting such results in scientific fora ensuring the greatest possible visibility.
The call is open to researchers and research groups with a research facility in Hungary whose scientific achievements have significant international impact, i.e. who have at least one excellent publication published after 1 January 2014 achieving an international citation index accounting for the top 5 percent in the given field of science within two years from the date of publication.
In order to strengthen the international visibility and reputation of Hungarian science, the NRDI Office announced this call to encourage individual researchers and research groups to strive for scientific results which are outstanding even by international standards, highly acclaimed by the scientific community and can be used by others as starting points for further research projects. The call intends to offer an opportunity for researchers who have no publications in the top impact factor journals but demonstrate a citation index that implies excellent publication performance with internationally outstanding impact.
The call is financed from the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund.
Submission of project proposals
Applications can be submitted electronically through the Online Application Portal of the NRDI Office by 31 August 2017. In the first stage only those proposals will be accepted that are submitted electronically by 9 March 2017 17:00 CET (postmarking deadline for submissions via regular mail: 16 March 2017). In the second stage only those proposals will be accepted that are submitted electronically by 31 August 2017 17:00 CET (postmarking deadline for submissions via regular mail: 7 September 2017). Proposals may not be submitted only electronically or in person. Proposals have to be submitted in Hungarian irrespective of the given field of science (however, certain parts of the proposal, namely the summary and the work plan, shall also be drawn up in English).
Who can apply
Researchers (principal investigators) with Hungarian or foreign nationality have to apply jointly with the host institution which has to 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.
Throughout the entire implementation period, the principal investigator shall be employed full-time by the host institution under an employment contract, civil service contract or other work-related legal relationship.
Further requirements for principal investigators
The researcher who submits the project proposal has to be the first, last or corresponding author of the excellent publication on which the proposal is based. The members of a research group may only submit one project proposal.
At the time of application the principal investigator shall hold a doctoral (PhD/DLA) degree or a certificate issued by the university doctoral council, and has to be affiliated to a Hungarian host institution.
One researcher may only participate in one KH project proposal as principal investigator and may only assume principal investigator position in maximum two projects funded by the NRDI Office under any other of the research funding schemes (FK, K, NK, NF or NN types) at a time. The principal investigator and the research group of a project funded under the KH_17 scheme may not receive further funding under the KH scheme for 24 months following the start of the funded project.
Eligible objectives and activities
The discovery research activities indicated in the research and work plan, and the actions required to implement the project plan submitted to the NRDI Office are eligible and not bound by any thematic priority or restricted to any field of science, if otherwise the application meets the conditions laid down in the call.
Available budget
In order to achieve the objectives of the call the NRDI Office has earmarked a total budget of HUF 1 billion from the NRDI Fund for the 2017–2020 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 depending on the programme strategy for 2017.
Available funds
Up to HUF 20 million in non-refundable funding per project. Maximum funding intensity is 100%.
Duration of the project
The mandatory duration of projects is 24 months. Projects shall start between 1 July 2017 and 1 December 2017 (projects awarded in the second stage may not start earlier than 1 November 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.
Recognising the international visibility of scientific performance, measured by innovation scoreboards, university rankings and the citation index of scientific publications, is gaining importance worldwide. With the excellence programme titled “Funding for research teams with significant achievements of internationally outstanding impact” (KH_17), having a total budget of HUF 1 billion, the NRDI Office urges domestic research groups to achieve new results which greatly advance their field of science and lay the groundwork for further research, and to present them in the most visible international scientific fora. The call is open to researchers whose publication achieved an international citation index accounting for the top 5 percent in the given field of science within two years from the date of publication. In the second assessment round of the KF_17 call, 30 out of the 33 proposals met the formal requirements. The decision preparation body has recommended 25 proposals for funding and 5 proposals to be rejected due to lack of funds to the President of the NRDI Office. The call is planned to be announced again next year, where the proposals rejected due to lack of funds can be resubmitted. FUNDED PROJECTSFunding organisation: NRDI Office
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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) |
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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 |
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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 | - |