The Hungarian member of the EUREKA Ministerial Conference is the Junior Minister for Strategic Affairs of National Economy:
Zoltán Cséfalvay
Ministry for National Economy
Honvéd u. 13-15.
H-1055 Budapest
Email: zoltan.csefalvay@ngm.gov.hu

The Hungarian High Level Representative:
Dr. Sándor Erdő
Vice President
National Innovation Office
Neumann János u. 1/c.,
H-1117 Budapest
Phone: + 36 1 484 2965
Fax: + 36 1 317 9675
E-mail: sandor.erdo@nkth.gov.hu

The Hungarian National Project Coordinator:
Szonja Csuzdi
Head of Unit
National Innovation Office
Neumann János u. 1/c.,
H-1117 Budapest
Phone: + 36 1 484 2560
Fax: + 36 1 266 2801
E-mail: szonja.csuzdi@nih.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 EUREKA Programme. This Programme has had a dedicated budget of 2 million euros per year for 2007-2010. The next call for proposal is expected to be published in March/April, 2011.

In order to ensure the flexibility which is needed for starting an international cooperation project, the project proposals can be submitted continuously with 2 cut-off dates per year..