Deadline Date: May 28, 2026
The National Research, Development and Innovation Fund has announced a funding opportunity to facilitate researchers’ access to domestic and international research infrastructures.
The focus areas include supporting the use of research and measurement opportunities offered by research infrastructures, enabling early-career scientists to get acquainted with these infrastructures, promoting international integration of researchers, facilitating outbound and inbound travel related to research infrastructure use, covering stays and project-related travel, supporting dissemination of project results, and funding instrument usage and related material or equipment costs.
This funding opportunity is divided into two sub-programmes. Sub-programme “A” targets domestic researchers and provides support for using research and measurement opportunities offered by infrastructures where Hungary is a full member, including organizing group study trips to enhance the development of the researcher pipeline. Sub-programme “B” focuses on international researchers, promoting their use of major Hungarian research infrastructures and fostering integration into international scientific networks while facilitating the flow of knowledge.
Eligible activities under sub-programme A cover travel abroad for domestic researchers, PhD, MSc, or MA students, stays in the target country, project-related travel within Hungary and abroad, dissemination of results through conferences, journals, open-access repositories, or open-source software, and instrument usage fees certified by the host infrastructure. Sub-programme B supports inbound travel and stays in Hungary for foreign researchers or PhD students, domestic project-related travel, dissemination of results, and material, equipment, or instrument usage costs incurred at the host institution.
The maximum funding per project ranges from HUF 800,000 to HUF 5 million, with a total budget of HUF 87,300,000, and projects can run for a maximum of 24 months. Eligible applicants include businesses and economic organizations under specified GFO codes, denominational or private higher education institutions accredited by the state, as well as budgetary organs and entities that qualify as research and knowledge-dissemination organizations under EU regulations.
For more information, visit National Research, Development and Innovation Office.
