CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Erzsébetváros Local Government, District VII, Budapest –
the Education, Culture and Social Affairs Committee of the Council announces a call for applications for support for families raising children with special educational needs or with integration, learning or behavioral difficulties
(SEN/BTM call)
I. Purpose of the call:
Support for children requiring special attention and special treatment, for whom the competent expert committee has established special educational needs or integration, learning or behavioral difficulties in an expert opinion. The support can be used to supplement and extend the development and special care recommended in the expert committee’s opinion, outside the services provided by the educational institution.
The support cannot be used to buy developmental tools.
II. Conditions:
The applicant and the child concerned have a valid registered permanent or temporary address in District VII, Budapest, and actually live in the district, provided that
– at the time of applying, the child requiring special treatment has a valid expert committee opinion and is under 23 on the day the application is submitted,
– a child aged 16-23 concerned by the application is enrolled as a student, and
– the family’s monthly net income per person does not exceed 820% of the current social reference base (HUF 233,700 in 2026).
Other condition of the call: A person who successfully applied under the same call in 2025 may only take part in this call for the child with special educational needs or integration, behavioral and learning difficulties named in that application if they have fully accounted for the amount awarded in 2025.
1. For the purposes of this call:
a) child or student with special educational needs: under Section 4, point 25 of Act CXC of 2011 on national public education (hereinafter: Nkt.), a child or student requiring special treatment who, according to the expert committee’s opinion, has a physical, sensory (visual, hearing), intellectual or speech disability, multiple disabilities, autism spectrum disorder or another psychological developmental disorder (severe learning, attention or behavioral regulation disorder);
b) child or student with integration, learning or behavioral difficulties: under Section 4, point 3 of the Nkt., a child or student requiring special treatment who, according to the expert committee’s opinion, significantly underperforms for their age, struggles with social relationship problems and learning or behavioral regulation deficits, whose integration into the community and personality development are hindered or show particular tendencies, but who does not qualify as having special educational needs;
c) compulsory schooling: Compulsory schooling lasts until the end of the school year in which the student turns sixteen. For students with special educational needs, it may be extended until the end of the school year in which they turn twenty-three. Proof:
1) During compulsory schooling, until the end of the school year in which the student turns sixteen, proof of student status is not required.
2) From the year after the school year referred to in 1), student status must be proven with a valid student ID.
d) applicant: the parent exercising parental custody, or the legal representative.
III. Application period:
from April 1, 2026 to April 30, 2026
IV. Method and place of submission:
Applications may be submitted only on the application form provided for this purpose as an annex to the call, on paper, in one copy, together with the required annexes, in person, by post or electronically via e-Papír.
§ In person:
Erzsébetváros Mayor’s Office, District VII, Budapest
at one of the Customer Service Offices
(1073 Budapest, Erzsébet krt. 6., or 1076 Budapest, Garay u. 5. Customer service hours: Tuesday: 8:00 – 12:00, Wednesday: 8:00 − 12:00, 13:00 – 18:00, Thursday: 13:00 – 16:00)
§ By post, mailing address:
Erzsébetváros Mayor’s Office, District VII, Budapest,
1073 Budapest, Erzsébet krt. 6.
§ Electronically via Ügyfélkapu on e-Papír (https://epapir.gov.hu/):
The application documents with all annexes can be submitted in PDF format via the applicant’s Ügyfélkapu on e-Papír by selecting the “other” category. Hivatali kapu address: short name: BPVIIPH; KRID code: 500127390.
More information: https://erzsebetvaros.hu/page/elektronikus-ugyintezes
The application form and its annex can be downloaded from the www.erzsebetvaros.hu/pályázatok page or collected at the Customer Service Offices.
V. Documents required to apply:
a) completed application form;
b) the declaration on conflict of interest or personal involvement annexed to the application form;
c) a copy of the expert opinion, valid at the time of application, on the child with special educational needs or with integration, learning or behavioral difficulties;
d) for children aged 16 or over, a copy of a valid student ID;
e) income-related certificates, declarations and other certificates.
A detailed list of documents to be submitted to prove income can be found in the information sheet of the application form.
VI. Conditions of support:
1. Form of support: non-repayable, paid in a single installment in advance.
2. Period for using the support: from June 1, 2026 to February 28, 2027.
VII. Principles for allocating the funds:
1. No proof of own contribution is required; the support intensity is 100%.
2. Total funds available: HUF 3,000,000, as set out in Decree 43/2025 (XII.15.) of the Council of the Erzsébetváros Local Government, District VII, Budapest, on the Local Government’s 2026 budget.
3. The amount of support per application is HUF 160,000 (one hundred and sixty thousand forints) as non-repayable support.
4. Support is allocated in order of need based on per capita income, until the available funds are exhausted.
VIII. Assessment, notification, contract and accounting:
1. Only applications submitted within the deadline can be supported; missing items may be supplied once. requests to supply missing items are sent electronically to the email address given in the application; missing items may be supplied within 8 days of the electronic notification.
2. If the parent/legal representative is raising several children requiring special treatment, a separate application must be submitted for each child.
3. For a child requiring special treatment living in a family, only one of the parents may apply.
4. Applications are decided by the Education, Culture and Social Affairs Committee of the Council of the Erzsébetváros Local Government, District VII, Budapest (hereinafter: Committee) within 45 days of the submission deadline .There is no appeal against the decision. The Committee rejects applications submitted after the deadline or that do not supply missing items (incomplete applications).
5. Applicants are notified electronically of the results within 8 days of the Committee’s decision. The winning applicant must sign the support contract within 30 days of being notified that it is ready. If, through the beneficiary’s fault, the contract is not signed within a further thirty days of this deadline, the grant decision lapses.
6. The support is paid within 30 days of the support contract with the successful applicant being signed by all parties.
7. The applicant must, by March 15, 2027, as set out in the support contract, prove the use of the support with VAT invoices issued in their name. The rules for using and accounting for the support are set out in the support contract, under which the accounts consist of a professional and a financial report. If the support is used other than as set out in the call, or is not used, the applicant must repay the support.
IX. Further information, contact:
If you are looking for a specialist for your child’s individual development, we recommend getting to know the work of the Varázsdoboz Development Center and Play House (Address: 1074 Budapest, Dob u. 27.; web: www.varazsfejleszto.hu/; tel: 06-1/266-0485), which, guided by the principle of prevention, provides much-needed services that help the daily lives of families in Erzsébetváros raising children with special educational needs.
Further information on the call is available from Tímea Tóth at 06-1/462-3342 and at Toth.Timea@erzsebetvaros.hu email address.