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Presentations at the CORNET Partnering Event held in Győr, 14th January 2010
A 2010 január 14-i győri CORNET partnerkereső rendezvény előadásai
A 2010 január 14-i győri CORNET partnerkereső rendezvény előadásai
January 27, 2010
Under preparation programme hELIos ELI, the National Office for Research and Technology publishes a call for proposals to support laser R&D&I activities in Hungary.
January 22, 2010
The National Office for Research and Technology is organising a CORNET proposal building Partnering Event, targeting collective research projects on 14th January 2010 in Győr, Hungary.
December 01, 2009
Technology-intensive, start-up enterprises – the driving force of economy
One of the most important aims of the Government’s Science -, Technology - and Innovation Policy is to aid technology-intensive start-ups, and through their support to strengthen the exploitation of R&D results.
October 13, 2009
The Hungarian National Office for Research and Technology (NKTH) is in the process of preparing its technology incubation programme. One of its sub-programmes focuses on supporting technology incubators, while another on funding for technology start-up companies. It is important that potential participants are well prepared for this novel programme, in which funding is offered in parallel through complementary calls and funding mechanisms. As a leader in technological innovation and technology transfer, the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) is committed to offering information to interested parties – including representatives of companies, researchers, MSc and PhD students, and those considering the establishment of spin-offs, etc. – about this new programme, and its funding modalities.
September 25, 2009
How knowledge becomes a product? Roundtable discussion as an accentuated event of the Researcher’s Night and of the European Year of Creativity and Innovation.
September 24, 2009
The 11th TéT conference, titled: “Handling the Crisis Through Innovation – international experiences”, will be held on the 1st of October, Thursday between 10-13 at the National Office for Research and Technology (1/C Neumann J. st. Budapest, 1117).
September 23, 2009
We inform our applicants, that the deadline for proposal submission in the „MOBILITÁS” programme (HUMAN-MB08) co-financed by the NKTH-OTKA-FP7 (Marie Curie actions) has been extended.
September 23, 2009
The Lisbon Treaty specifies an EU aim to make innovation the motor of economic growth and competitiveness. In this process regional dimensions are curtail; the funds allocated for regional developments guarantee the growth of underdeveloped areas. These developmental strategies and aims are better and more efficiently specified and met by the regional-level development agencies. To provide for the regional R&D needs the legislation provided 25% of the Research and Technological Innovation Fund to be distributed on a regional scale. Within this frame The Gabor Baross Program presents over five billion HUF to be dispensed through four open calls in 2009.
September 23, 2009
On behalf of the minister without portfolio responsible for R&D, NKTH and the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA) publishes a call for proposals titled “MOBILITY” for the period between 2008 and 2010 to support the international mobility of researchers in order to promote research careers (call acronym: HUMAN-MB08).
August 06, 2009
The formation of a knowledge-based society and economy demands a high level of knowledge, which appears in new, marketable products and services. Science and innovation are essential factors in competitiveness and sustainable growth. At the same time, knowledge has become an important factor in quality of life.
June 19, 2009
The programme aims at enhancing the competitiveness of the economy and improving the sustainability of development by promoting application-oriented, strategic research and development in the field of state-of-the-art technologies. The objective of funding is to enhance innovation taking Hungarian R&D strategies into consideration.
March 04, 2009
The NOVOFER Foundation for Technical and Intellectual Creation, under the patronage of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the National Office for Research and Technology, Károly Molnár (Minister without portfolio in charge of Science, Research and Innovation) and József Pálinkás (President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences), announce a competition for young researchers who have already made a significant contribution to scientific fields inspired by the achievements of Dennis Gabor (e.g., optics, laser technology, medical imaging).
February 25, 2009
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation /Research and Technology Organisation is organising in Budapest on 16-17 March, LECTURE SERIES SCI-207 on „Denial and Deception: An evolving asymetric threat to NATO’s defence”.
February 09, 2009
The ICT Proposers' Day offers a unique opportunity to reflect on the new ICT Work Programme for 2009-2010 of the 7th Framework Programme for R&D, as well as to build quality partnerships in the harmonic ambience of Budapest.
January 09, 2009
"How to finance cluster activities at European level - 7th Framework Program and the EUROPE INNOVA Initiative" Possibilities and experiences.
November 13, 2008
Based on the result of the relevant tender, Károly Molnár, Minister without portfolio responsible for R&D, appointed Gyula Csopaki, CSc (PhD) of technical sciences, as President of the National Office for Research and Technology (NKTH). Priority task of the new president will be - while ensuring predictability and stability - to make sure that the efficiency of the system of calls for proposals under the Innovation Fund is increased.
September 29, 2008
On 15 September 2008, the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) was launched at a ceremonial opening in the building of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Hungarian and EU dignitaries opened the inaugural meeting in the morning. In the afternoon, the first meeting of the EIT Governing Board took place, where Mr. Martin Schuurmans was elected as chair of the board.
September 17, 2008
OECD are compiling a Review of Hungary’s National Innovation System.
The objectives of the Review of Hungary’s National Innovation System are to evaluate the performance of the Hungarian innovation system based on an independent and overall assessment, as well as to elaborate recommendations for government policy makers to improve that performance on the basis of OECD member countries.
The objectives of the Review of Hungary’s National Innovation System are to evaluate the performance of the Hungarian innovation system based on an independent and overall assessment, as well as to elaborate recommendations for government policy makers to improve that performance on the basis of OECD member countries.
August 13, 2008
The programme aims at enhancing the competitiveness of the economy and improving the sustainability of development by promoting application-oriented, strategic research and development in the field of state-of-the-art technologies. The objective of funding is to promote innovation taking Hungarian R&D strategies into consideration.
August 05, 2008
One of the largest European R&D expos, Salon Européen de la Recherche et de l’Innovation (hereinafter referred to as: SERI-2008) was organized in Paris for the fourth time, between 5 and 7 June 2008.
July 02, 2008
Ferenc Pártos, President of the Hungarian National Office for Research and Technology and Jacqueline Lecourtier, general director of the French National Research Agency (ANR) signed a cooperation framework agreement on 22nd May 2008. The agreement defines the contents and technical parameters of a joint call: the two parties shall provide EUR 6 million each for 3 years to research teams to carry out joint projects in the fields of genomics and biotechnology.
June 10, 2008
New EC-funded effort to create a sustainable infrastructure for biological data launched.
June 03, 2008
An outstanding international event of 2008 will be the eVITA 2008 Conference and Exhibition to be held between April 3 and 5 in Budapest, at the Europe Congress Centre. eVITA 2008 is also the proposed European launch event of the planned AAL Joint Programme.
March 19, 2008
The EGEE project (Enabling Grids for E-sciencE – www.eu-egee.org/) is funded by the European Commission. The Project operates a production grid infrastructure including more than 200 sites across countries for the benefit of a wide range of user communities. Operating on a global scale, this flagship European project provides access to a team of Grid experts with proven deployment experience. The EGEE Grid consists of over 36,000 CPU available to users 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, in addition to about 5 PB disk (5 million Gigabytes) + tape MSS of storage, and maintains 30,000 concurrent jobs on average. Having such resources available changes the way scientific research takes place.
September 14, 2007
Representatives of 13 countries (Denmark, France, Greece, China, Poland, Hungary, Great-Britain, Germany, Italy, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden) and those of the city of Hamburg and the province of Schleswig-Holstein signed and issued a Memorandum of Understanding on Starting the Construction of the European X-ray Free-Electron Laser Facility in Hamburg on 5th June 2007. Hungary was represented by the vice-president of NKTH (National Office for Research and Technology), Dr Ilona Vass, at the ceremonial occasion.
August 14, 2007
The Green Paper entitled 'The European Research Area: New Perspectives' was published in April 2007.The National Office for Research and Technology initiates a national consultation on the future of the European Research Area.Our forum provides an opportunity for sharing views, thus you can actively participate in forming the future of the European Research Area.
August 03, 2007
The European Union - having recognised that the globalisation of the economy calls for greater mobility of researchers and that there is a lack of researchers in key areas in Europe - created the Council Directive 2005/71/EC on a specific procedure for admitting third-country nationals for the purposes of scientific research. This directive had to be included in national legislations.
July 16, 2007
Minister of Economy and Transport, János Kóka introduced Ferenc Pártos - who is to take the presidential seat of the National Office for Research and Technology (NKTH) on 1st August 2007 - to the key representatives of the sector at a sectoral meeting.
July 05, 2007
Upon the initiative of the Embassy of Hungary in Paris, Hungary participated at the European Research and Innovation Exhibition (hereinafter referred to as: Expo, http://www.salon-de-la-recherche.com) in Paris for the third time this year. Several Hungarian-French economic, research and innovation cooperation events took place linked to the expo.
June 14, 2007
Merging of a European workshop and a Hungarian Conference into a two days event gives the opportunity to the audience, including international and Hungarian stakeholders: researchers, developers, owners, investors, managers and policy makers to learn about the European Coordination Action: EURODEMO and the Hungarian MOKKA project.
June 12, 2007
On the 8th of February 2007., the National Office for Research and Technology (NKTH) organised a one-day conference titled „Seeking answers for tomorrow’s questions today” on the EU’s 7th Framework Programme.
January 22, 2007
Amid media pressure for a renewal of many of HAS’s obsolete structures, in his presidential address on the second day of HAS’s 175th General Assembly, E. Sylvester Vizi first admitted that some of those criticisms were not only justified, but met with majority opinion prevailing in HAS’s own membership.
May 31, 2006
A Holografika Kft. többek között a 3D holografikus megjelenítők kifejlesztésével foglalkozik. Ezen törekvéseit az ITKA és az NKFP (Jedlik Ányos program) pályázatokon keresztül támogatta az NKTH és jogelőd-szervezetei.
May 31, 2006
"Arisztid Kovach was one of my teachers. He already had a lab in Philadelphia at that time. He wasn't an Academician either," said the 38-year-old pharmaceutical researcher who has waded into controversial waters since his return home to Hungary one year ago.
May 29, 2006
The president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and two former presidents have joined forces to make the case for lifelong and irrevocable membership of the Academy, and to argue that members should also receive a substantial honorarium, which should also last until the member dies. At the Opera, people are arguing about whether to revoke the public servant status of every last employee, ensuring that everyone be paid on the basis of their performance. However, the great scholarly body is behaving as if its most important job were to preserve its privileges.
May 29, 2006
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) signed a Memorandum of Intent (MOI) with Hungary's National Office for Research and Technology (NKTH) to promote collaborative activities between the two agencies in the areas of science, engineering and bio-medical research and to facilitate and support joint research and development projects. The MOI was signed by A*STAR's Chairman Mr Philip Yeo and NKTH's President Dr Miklós Boda on 3 April 2006 in Singapore.
April 13, 2006
On 10th March 2006, the National Office for Research and Technology organised a high-level Round Table discussion on JRC (Joint Research Centre) - Hungarian collaboration perspectives at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest. The meeting explored possibilities for future collaboration and a series of successful joint research projects were discussed.
March 31, 2006
Az NKTH német-magyar workshopot rendezett 2004. március 11-én a Szervita téri székházban.
Témája az: Együttműködés az IT oktatásban és kutatásban volt (PDF-formátum, 14,3 kB)
Témája az: Együttműködés az IT oktatásban és kutatásban volt (PDF-formátum, 14,3 kB)
March 18, 2004
