Hungary - as the first country from the Central- Eastern-European region - was admitted to EUREKA in May 1992.

The Hungarian member of the EUREKA Ministerial Conference is the
Minister of Economy and Transport:

Dr Csaba Kákosy
Phone: + 36 1 374 2700
Email: kakosy.csaba@gkm.gov.hu

The Hungarian High Level Representative:

Ilona VASS
Vice President
National Office for Research and Technology
Neumann János u. 1/c.,
H-1117 Budapest
Phone: + 36 1 484 2965
Fax: + 36 1 317 9675
E-mail: ilona.vass@nkth.gov.hu

The Hungarian National Project Coordinator:

Szonja CSÚZDI
officer
National Office for Research and Technology
Neumann János u. 1/c.,
H-1117 Budapest
Phone: + 36 1 484 2560
Fax: + 36 1 266 2801
E-mail: szonja.csuzdi@nkth.gov.hu

Financing

The costs of EUREKA projects are generated by the participants themselves, there are no separate central allocations for financing the projects; EUREKA does not have a project support resource. The developments carried out within the EUREKA projects are supported to various extents by all member countries. Some of them- including Hungary- have established a separate EUREKA allocation (budget), and others use the existing competition systems for the partial financing of the EUREKA projects.

In Hungary there is a special support system that co-finances the Hungarian EUREKA project participants, including cluster project participants, in the frame of the Déri Miksa Programme. This Programme has a dedicated budget of 2 million euros per year for 2007-2010. In order to ensure the flexibility what is needed for starting an international cooperation project the project proposals can be submitted continuously with 2-3 cut-off dates per year.