Open Call: Supporting the Innovation Capacity of SMEs (Hungary)

Funding Information

• The total budget available for funding is HUF 75,000 million.
• Available funding: minimum HUF 20,000,000 – maximum HUF 50,000,000
• Project duration: 18 months

Eligible Activities

• Eurostat data show that the share of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Hungary that have introduced business process innovation is low. Only 21.2% of Hungarian SMEs (those employing more than 10 people) have introduced business process innovation, according to the (latest) data for 2020-2022 of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (HCSO), while the EU average was 41.2% in this period, leaving them 20 percentage points behind and ranking them 25th in the EU. No significant progress has been identified in this field in recent years (2016: 17.5 %, 2018: 19%, 2020: 23.5%, 2022: 21.2%), which is why it is important to support Hungarian SMEs in their business process innovation. In this context, they provide funding for:
  • production and manufacturing process innovation activities;
  • marketing and/or sales innovation activities;
  • organisational innovation activities (administrative and management development); and
  • logistics innovation activities.

Beneficiary Groups

• Enterprise (non-research type)

Place of implementation

• The whole territory of Hungary

Eligibility Criteria

• Micro and small enterprises are eligible to apply for funding under this call for proposals. This call is not open to consortia.

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