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Hungarian Science and Technology Foundation

Hungarian Science and Technology Foundation (HSTF)
1027 Budapest, Bem József u. 2., Hungary
Phone: 36-1-214-7714
Fax: 36-1-214-7712
e-mail: tetalap@tetalap.hu
website: http://www.tetalap.hu

About the organisation:

The Hungarian Science and Technology Foundation is a non-profit public foundation. It was established by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Hungary in 1994. The Foundation’s operations are governed by a nine member Board of Trustees. The Board is composed of delegates from ministries, governmental and other national institutions responsible for Hungarian R&D policy.
The Foundation's aims and activity areas are to:

• support scientific and R&D activities by distributing funding to a variety of national and international cooperative research efforts
• to maintain and develop the international relations of the Hungarian R&D community
• increase international cooperation among scientific research institutions
• participate in Hungary's EU integration efforts by promoting the field of science and technology
• assist Hungarian institutes and their researchers participate in European Union S&T programs
• disseminate information related to the scientific and technological programs of the EU
• intensively participate in the EU Framework Programmes in respect to both project management and awareness/training activities
• organize national and international conferences dealing with science policy and management

By appointment of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Foundation has managed and implemented the U.S.-Hungarian Intergovernmental Agreement for S&T Cooperation since its signing in 1989. The Foundation has been responsible for the management of the total grant system of the U.S.-Hungarian S&T Joint Fund (altogether ca. 250 research projects, 100 workshops, 200 mobility grants). Since 1996, on the assignment of the National Committee for Technological Development (OMFB), the Foundation has been executing the administrative and financial management of the projects (ca. 650) approved under the bilateral intergovernmental S&T agreements which Hungary has signed with more than 30 countries all over the world. On the assignment of the supervising consortium, the Foundation was responsible for the administrative and financial management of the Hungarian EU Liaison Office for Research and Development (HunOR) in Brussels between 1999-2003. The Foundation is a member of the Hungarian EU FP6 liaison office network supported by the National Office of Research and Technology. Its activity is covering the Budapest and Central Hungary region, with special attention to the areas of Quality of Life, Environment, Improvement of Human Potential and SME Actions. It offers advisory services to all of the potential Hungarian EU Framework Proposers on a non-profit basis.

Projects:

The Foundation has been an active participant in EU 5th Framework Programme projects. It was the coordinator of the HEURORA project (2000-2001), and has been a partner in six projects (Detectfraud, Fellows for Industry, Freetime, Partners for Life, Train-Net, Ethnic). In the 6th Framework Programme the Foundation is presently coordinating 3 projects (Enwise Ethics Workshop, TrainNet Future, Hungary for FP6) and participates in 8 further projects(CEAF, CEC-Wys, CERA, ERAMORE.HU, FET-EEU, Quality Meat, LINK, SMEsforFood) in the area of life sciences, mobility, SME actions and women&science. It is also partner in 2 LEONARDO and 2 INTERREG projects. Based on a contract from the EC, a co-worker of the Foundation is working as Project Technical Assistant in the area of Quality of Life. Representative of the Foundation was a member of the Pilot Group for Mobility Centres (2003) and the STRATA-ETAN Expert Group "The situation of women scientists in the Eastern and Central European countries and in the Baltic States" (2003-2004).