The primary aim of the Thematic Excellence Programme is to lay the foundations of efficient and successful professional work for higher education institutions, public research centres and the research institutes of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and to create the underlying funding system. The targeted allocation of funds based on professional excellence aims to provide predictable and sustainable financial framework conditions for the institutions.

According to the call for funding requests, the thematic professional programmes of the applicant institutions are required to fit with the following research topics: health, culture and family, secure society and environment, and industry and digitisation.

In the long term, policy makers expect the new scheme to increase the openness of research activities, facilitate cooperation in the RDI sector, promote the utilisation of research results for social, economic and environmental benefits, optimise the use of research capacities, enhance internationalisation, and provide the conditions of a predictable, competitive and attractive career path for researchers in the institutions.