National and international tenders
The Directorate supports the university’s teachers, researchers, experts, and doctoral students to become involved in international networks and realise their professional objectives through tenders. Our activities range from seeking out current tender opportunities to concept development and submission of tender applications, and includes promoting, encouraging and implementing participation in national and international, in particular EU-funded, programmes.
Projects
Building on the positive changes resulting from reconfiguration of the organisational format facilitated by the model change, this project will improve operational efficiency in particular through the development of digital equipment, infrastructure of practical trainings, and digital competencies, as well as the updating of training contents. In addition, it will also enable service developments required for strengthening international engagement.
The international research project ARE BEST NbS aims to enhance the implementation of credible and socially inclusive Nature-based Solutions (NbS) for biodiversity protection and climate resilience. By combining insights from design, natural and social sciences, and the arts, the project investigates how people understand and value biodiversity and how these perceptions influence decision-making around NbS.
On January 1, 2025, the CONIFER project was launched with the participation of the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME). Coordinated by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), the project is being implemented by twenty-five partner institutions across six European cities over the course of three years.
The impact of AI on Low-resource (limited digital resources) languages and their visual cultures” project supported by the Visegrad Fund and led by Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design aims to address the underrepresentation of low-resource languages, such as Slovak, Hungarian, Czech, Polish and their associated visual cultures in artificial intelligence systems.
In the project ZenctuaryVR+ the aim is to develop a VR application using participatory co-design tools and test this application directly on older adults in palliative care centre (FR) in the form of a feasibility study and conduct long-term randomized clinical trial on medical sites (HU).
In urban areas, climate change is putting Europe's water resources under immense pressure. The unused potential of rivers and
canals to create resilience, provide access to a healthy, green and sustainable city, as well as to improve social cohesion, cannot be
ignored.
The project aims to elevate contemporary dance in the Danube region by establishing the Danube Dance Alliance through innovative, modular, and hybrid international co-productions.
Our mission is to provide answers to the challenges of the 21st century through design-based learning, research, and the application of practical expertise.
The conference analyzes the significance of material experimentation and its role in sustainability across various industries, focusing on the profound implications of innovation.
The “Symposium for Extended Reality in Natural Reserves” project – financed by the Internation Visegrad Fund - focuses on organizing a symposium and a hackathon in Budapest to explore the use of augmented reality technology in natural reserves across the V4 countries.
The aim of the Cooperative Doctoral Programme is to further increase the number of employees in the field of research, development and innovation who wish to enrich their professional knowledge with the latest scientific research results and are committed to the social and economic exploitation of their knowledge.
The New National Excellence Programme is an academic and artistic research scholarship programme launched in 2016 in a variety of subjects and aimed at promoting student and researcher excellence in higher education.
Stipendium Hungaricum is a scholarship program for foreign students, which was launched by the Hungarian Government in 2013. The program aims to promote cultural understanding, economic and cultural relations between Hungary and other countries.
Our university participated in the HSUP programme (STARTUP-2024-HSUP-001) also in the 2023/2024 academic year, receiving a HUF 16.3 million grant from the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund for the implementation of the programme with the contribution of the Express Innovation Agency.
The project "Supporting vocational schools in the development of creativity" aims to develop and implement complex training courses for teachers in five methodological areas, taking into account the specificities of vocational schools, and to provide professional support for the implementation of action programmes.
CoDesign4Transitions is a four-year doctoral network that brings together eight universities in seven countries who will recruit and supervise a cohort of 13 transdisciplinary Doctoral Candidates.
The project titled "Preservation of Marcell Jankovics' Artistic Legacy, Exhibition, and Cultural-Historical Album" aims to accomplish two outstanding objectives.
The goal of the Future Traditions program is to engage our audience in the cultural and visual dialogue that has emerged over the past two millennia through the continuous development, transformation, adaptation, and interplay of folk art techniques, decorative elements, and motifs linked to the culture of clothing.
The project, funded under Horizon Europe, aims to strengthen the bio-based economy (bioeconomy) and promote sustainable regional development in the participating countries and in Europe through design thinking, co-creation, art and design and skills development.
The aim of the NTP-TSZMT-M-23 project is to support the operation of domestic and cross-border talent support organisations, within the framework of which the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design is responsible for the development of the National Talent Programme (NTP) application framework, data analysis, project transparency and professional consultancy.
The transnational project “Culture trAnSforming communiTies and economies” (CAST) aims to use the rich cultural heritage of the Danube Region to enhance social inclusion and drive economic growth as part of the green transition.
Project partners from eleven countries in the Danube region will develop a model to support local communities in offering inclusive cultural activities and sustainable tourism products.
Closed projects
Shaping The Future is an international project, co-financed by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union, aimed to foster the capacity of artists to imagine and shape the future through visual arts, design and critical thinking.
The Change Agents project wishes to bring the academic sector and the NGO ecosystem closer to one another and generate deeper understanding between these important stakeholders, allowing stakeholders to advance a more collaborative, inclusive, and participatory practice of design and design education, while recognizing the already existing knowledge of activists and various stakeholders, using innovative approaches of social design.
Knowledge management is one of the key activities of the Innovation Center. In spring 2019, the National Research, Development and Innovation Office (NRDIO) launched a call for proposals for the development of the field under the name ‘University Innovation Ecosystem 2019-1.2.1-EGYETEMI ÖKO’.
In the semester of 2022/2023, the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design participated in the HSUP programme (STARTUP-2023-HSUP-005), which was financed by a grant of HUF 53 million from the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund, with the support of the Express Innovation Agency.
In the semester of 2022/2023, the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design participated in the HSUP programme (STARTUP-2023-HSUP-005), which was financed by a grant of HUF 53 million from the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund, with the support of the Express Innovation Agency.
BALATORIUM is part of the project of the Veszprém-Balaton 2023 European Capital of Culture, and it is a professionally sound way to raise awareness of the ecological challenges of the region. Through cultural and artistic projects, it initiates a dialogue on the ecological system and values of Lake Balaton. It promotes long-term cooperation between scientific institutions and the cultural sector and through these activities gives an international dimension to the ecological challenges of Lake Balaton and its region and to artistic and cultural events that reflect these challenges.
Project "A Jövő Új Útjai"
The goal of the project is to develop and provide technical and practical skills to primary and secondary school students and recent graduates with values and experiences that will increase their interest in higher education in the longer term, including in the fields of mathematics, science, engineering, IT and design, with a particular focus on autonomous (self-driving) driving.
The HEAD programme for primary and secondary schools is a pedagogical programme for the effective development of problem-solving thinking. The programme uses a specific methodology of project-based education, inspired by the world of innovation industry and design, which adapts the steps of design thinking to teaching-learning situations.
The Balaton Bútor Kft. and the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design have won 498.63 million HUF non-refundable EU funding under the Széchenyi 2020 Competitive Central Hungary Operational Programme with their application entitled "Smart Office for Future Generations".
AdornU is the joint project that brings together three prominent European art universities, namely Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design as the head of the consortium from Budapest, Hungary, Trier University of Art and Science from Germany, and the Estonian Academy of Art from Tallinn, Estonia, aiming at at creating an Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters programme in the field of Contemporary Artistic Jewellery.