National Research, Development and Innovation Office

Funding details

Call : Call for transnational, collaborative, inter-/transdisciplinary research projects on ICT-enabled agri-food systems

Country specific: Funding is restricted to organisations from Hungary

Funding: €200,000

Conditions full:

Eligibility criteria:

The aim of the call is to provide national funding for successful Hungarian participants in international joint calls of ERA-NET COFUND and European Joint Programme COFUND initiatives from the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund The call contributes to

  • fostering strategic cooperation amongst international organisations participating in projects funded by ERA-NET COFUND and EJP COFUND programmes,
  • to helping Hungarian participants of projects funded by the ERA-NET COFUND and EJP COFUND programmes to gain experience in the field of international R+D cooperation, which can contribute to strengthening Hungarian participation in the Horizon 2020 framework programme int he given technological,
  • establishing future scientific and economic cooperation.

General rules for participation for Hungarian institutions in the joint calls of the ERA-Net COFUND programmes are detailed in the Call Guidelines.

Participation in these programmes contributes to achieving national R+D goals stipulated in the EU-2020 strategy and the alignment of the R+D programmes of member states and thus to more efficient exploitation of European R+D funds. By concentrating these funds, large-scale projects aimed at adddressing important issues can be realized as well as the competitiveness of the European industry can be increased.

Request for funding can be submitted individually or in the form of national consortium. Hungarian partners participating in the same international project shall submit their request for domestic funding in the form of a national consortium.

Project duration: maximum 36 months

Request for funding shall only be submitted by a Hungarian member of a consortium of a joint international project which was selected for funding according to the evaluation system of the international programme, or

by a Hungarian member who joined the consortium of a joint international project which was selected for funding according to the evaluation system of the international programme at a later stage.

Activities eligible for funding:  basic research, applied research, experimental development, activities related to information and dissemination activities, project coordination activities, access to market. Detailed information can be found in the guidelines.

In case of basic research activities, they can only be carried out by the applicants and cannot be outsourced to third parties.

Please note that activities eligible for funding vary from ERA-NET to ERA-NET. Please refer to the Guidelines for detailed information. In case of ICT-AGRI-FOOD, applied research is eligible.

While applying for domestic funding, the professional content should be consistent with the professional content of the international project but the tasks of the Hungarian applicant should be presented in detail.

The timeline for the request for funding should be consistent with the timeline of the international project, the milestones should be defined according to the international project.

Applicants should meet the ethics requirements of Horizon 2020 indicated in Articles 13. and 14. of the Regulation 1290/2013/EU of the European Parliament and the Council.

Details regarding funding intensity can be found in the Guidelines

Domestic funding is available according to the ranking list of the international evaluation and until the exhaustion of the available domestic funds.

Submission of national proposal:

Proposers shall submit their request for funding after the approval of the international projects. The online application form and programme can is available at www.palyazat.gov.hu .

Deadline for submission: 30 November, 2020

 

National/regional topic priorities:

National Research, Development and Innovation Office funds research projects within all topics of the call.

 

More details in the national/regional call announcement:

www.nkfih.gov.hu , e-mail: nkfialap@nkfih.gov.hu

Contact person(s):
Orsolya Tóth