Another 29 Outstanding HUN-REN Research Projects Awarded Funding

17.01.2025

The winners of the STARTING sub-programme of the Hungarian National Research Excellence Programme, managed by the National Research, Development and Innovation Office (NRDI Office), have been announced. In the postdoctoral category, 29 HUN-REN researchers have been awarded a total of HUF 2,448,822,000 in funding.

In addition to the ADVANCED_24 sub-programme, funding decisions for the STARTING_24 sub-programme have also been announced. A total of 556 valid proposals were submitted, with a combined funding request of HUF 45,196,262,000. Based on the decisions of the Research Council of Hungary in collaboration with the President of the NRDI Office, 67 outstanding research proposals—29 of which were from HUN-REN—were awarded a total of HUF 5,846,708,000 in non-repayable grants from the NRDI Fund.

The main objective of the STARTING sub-programme of the National Research Excellence Programme is to provide funding to postdoctoral researchers to launch their independent research careers and to strengthen research creativity and excellence, according to the NRDI Office website.

According to the latest results, the following institutes and researchers from HUN-REN have been awarded funding (amounts in HUF):

István Boza, HUN-REN Centre for Economic and Regional Studies (69,999,000)
András Füredi, HUN-REN Research Centre for Natural Sciences (99,720,000)
Zoltán Rózsa, HUN-REN Institute for Computer Science and Control (99,864,000)
Zsolt Gulyás, HUN-REN Centre for Agricultural Research (93,053,000)
András Iring, HUN-REN Institute of Experimental Medicine (99,960,000)
András József Tóbiás, HUN-REN Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics (54,940,000)
Dávid Herczeg, Eötvös Loránd University HUN-REN–ELTE-MTM Integrative Ecology Research Group (93,022,000)
Veronika Csáky, HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities (99,950,000)
Enikő Farkas, HUN-REN Centre for Energy Research (45,356,000)
Dóra Czeferner, HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities (18,562,000)
Cecília Sarolta Molnár, HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics (74,932,000)
Judit Krekó, HUN-REN Centre for Economic and Regional Studies (71,906,000)
Gergő Thiering, HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics (99,735,000)
Viktor Szigeti, HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research (89,904,000)
Balázs Szappanos, HUN-REN Biological Research Centre, Szeged (99,912,000)
Attila Kunfi, HUN-REN Research Centre for Natural Sciences (99,948,000)
Eszter Németh, HUN-REN Research Centre for Natural Sciences (99,803,000)
Gergő Tóth, HUN-REN Centre for Economic and Regional Studies (96,156,000)
Richárd Fiáth, HUN-REN Research Centre for Natural Sciences (98,400,000)
Gergely Kiss, HUN-REN Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics (52,097,000)
Marcell Pálmai, HUN-REN Research Centre for Natural Sciences (96,288,000)
Kornélia Szebényi, HUN-REN Research Centre for Natural Sciences (99,360,000)
László Márton Tóth, HUN-REN Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics (55,250,000)
Marianna Túri, HUN-REN Institute for Nuclear Research (91,554,000)
Attila Szabó, HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research (99,996,000)
András Mészáros, HUN-REN Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics (49,672,000)
Veronika Barta, HUN-REN Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science (99,861,000)
Csaba Győry, HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences (99,622,000)
Rui Dániel Lima, HUN-REN Biological Research Centre, Szeged (100,000,000)

The full list with topics of the funded research projects is available on the NRDI Office website. The list of researchers awarded funding under the ADVANCED_24 sub-programme can be found here.

HUN-REN aims to become one of the most effective research organisations in Europe and to contribute significantly to Hungary's social and economic success. The HUN-REN Act, effective from 1 January 2025, provides the necessary framework for HUN-REN to transform into a more responsive, collaborative, performance-oriented, and well-functioning network, ensuring the freedom of scientific research and the continuation of exploratory research, while providing multidisciplinary solutions to complex challenges affecting both national and international communities. Employees within the modernising HUN-REN can look forward to a long-term, consistent, value-driven, and performance-focused funding system, mutually reinforcing structure and operation, competitive salaries, and a predictable research career.