- agency
- National Research, Development and Innovation Office (NKFIH), NRDI Fund
- amount
- Per-project maximum HUF 100 million for up to 48 months (plus up to 25% optional material costs and 15% overhead); total budget HUF 40 billion allocated across multiple research programmes 2026-2030
- country
- Hungary
- deadline or recurrence
- Announced 28 January 2026; deadline 24 February 2026 16:00; projects begin 1 January 2027
- eligibility
- Early-career postdoctoral principal investigators (PhD/DLA awarded after 1 January 2016) employed at least half-time at Hungarian host institutions (higher education institutions, HUN-REN research centres, or qualifying budgetary research institutions). Discovery research across all fields; aimed at establishing independent research groups (research-focused rather than company-focused).