Young researchers rewarded by MTA
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Index.hu reports, referring to MTI, that further 11 research teams would be established, thanks to the Lendület programme of MTA (Hungarian Scientific Academy). The winning applications include research dealing with the Peace Treaty of Trianon, the controlling principles of human balancing, and research dealing with the features of the gas that fills space between the galaxies.
The programme supports young scientists and the results were announced on Monday. László Lovász, director of MTA said that, for 5 years, they are going to give 400 million HUF to research teams, thus supporting them. Since 2009, 121 “Lendület-research teams” started research work, and this year MTA gives more than 3.6 billion HUF for the research done in the programme.
The programme was founded in order to encourage young Hungarian researchers, working abroad, to come back to Hungary, and also to make the talented ones, who work at Hungarian research centres, stay here. This time, 2 Hungarian scientists can come back from abroad thanks to Lendület. The 95 projects that participated in the competition were evaluated and judged in two phases.
Furthermore, the director also mentioned that they plan to shape the judging system to match the internationally accepted norms, especially to the system of ERC (European Research Council). Thus, many more scientist, working abroad, could become available to judge the projects sent in for the tender.
This year, for the first time, a tender for research related to Applied Linguistics was advertised. Earlier mainly basic research was supported by Lendület I, established for promising young researchers, and by Lendület II, which rewarded scientists of 35-45 years age, who had international achievement. Only 2 project plans were submitted on the competition, but these did not win support due to too high financial demands. Therefore the director said that big companies’ supporting could help research dealing with Applied Sciences.
The winners are as follows:
Balázs Ablonczy, historian, who aims to publish works and organise conferences about introducing new results and ones which make the Peace Treaty of Trianon more understandable for the public and fit the current ways of international historiography, by its 100th anniversary in 1920.
Tamás János Beke-Somfai, chemist plans to do research by using computer and experimental methods on compounds which can help the better understanding of Alzheimer disease, and to create effective medicine which may be taken instead of antibiotics.