Research in Slovenia

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TRADITION - Evolution of R&I in Slovenia

• 1550 Primož Turbar, first printed books in Slovene• Janez Vajkard Valvasor (1641-1693), fellow of The Royal Society in

London• 1693 Academia operosorum Labacensium, first scientific academy in

Ljubljana• Jurij Vega (1754-1802), Logarithm Tables • Jožef Stefan (1835-1893), Rector of the University of Vienna (1876-1877),

crater on the moon is called Stefan, Stefan’s law in physics • 1919 University of Ljubljana (beginnings in 1597)• Frederik Pregl (1869-1930), Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1923)• 1975 University of Maribor (beginnings in 1859)• Modern research institutes - after world war II.

– Institute ‘Jožef Stefan’ (1949)– National Institute of Chemistry (1946)– National Institute of Biology (1960)– Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (1981)

Institutional design and position of the ARRS

Operational level

Science & technology council

Government of the RS

Strategic level

MESS Other ministries

Policy levelMinistry of

Defence

ARRS

Executive level

Scientific Community

ARRS main areas of operation

Promotion of excellent

and applicative research

Monitoring and analysing

Funding of research

Objectiveevaluation

Research in Slovenia

- Funding and Relevance

- Scientific quality

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GERD: 6/27, 120 % EU-27

GDP: 16/27, 70 % EU-27

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PRE-SELECTION Call for pre-selected

researchers on a 5-year scientific production basis

~ 100 %

DRAFT APPLICATIONS(OUTLINE PROPOSALS)

APROJECTS ON THE

BASIS OF PROJECT QUALITY

B (B1+B2+B3) ~ 100 %

B

REJECTED PROJECTS

CALL FOR SUBMISSION OF FULL PROPOSALS

EVALUATION MADE BY THE PANEL ON THE BASIS OF PEER REVIEW

(international peers) – 2 per project

FINAL LIST OF APPROVED PROJECTSPanel: scientific body & international peers

Scientific Council of the Agency

Only selected projects are invited

Assessments are sent to applicants

PHASE 1

PHASE 2

Funding of ResearchTwo Step Evaluation Process

Scientific excellence and relevance of research programmes

Scientific criteria

Relevance criteria·     funds from european projects and other international projects / core funds

·     funds from companies / core funds

·     funds from other ministries / core funds

BC 1A 2A 3A

2A· funds for projects and young researchers / core funds· international quality within scientific field (citations)

1A

C: below 0,5

calculation according to average of individual scientific discipline↓

A, B and CA: above 1 (1 = average)

B: from 0,5 to 1

BC

Research in Slovenia

- Funding and Relevance

- Scientific quality

- Information Technology Support

ARRS’s Web Portal

Financial Transparency

Evaluation and Review of Research Results

– Use of SICRIS system and its abstracts of research work

• The most important scientific results• Socio-economic significance of research

– Use of COBISS bibliographic system– Use of international citation indexes (ISI,

CSA and other bibliographic databases

SICRIS Information System

About SICRIS Information System

SICRIS = SlovenIan Current Research Information System  • developed and maintained by the Institute of Information Science (IZUM

) and ARRS

• Currently presented entities:933 research organisations1490 research groups14247 researchers5731 research projects450 research programs

• allows viewing of presentation pages of more than 500 European projects of the EU Framework Programmes directly from the Projects database within the CORDIS system

• http://sicris.izum.si/default.aspx?lang =eng

COBISS bibliographic systemCOBISS.Net - Support to knowledge and intercultural dialogue

COBISS is Crossing Borders

Digital Library dLib.si

Research Reports at dLib.si

Videolectures

Videolectures.net Pro(mo)gram

Science Atlas

Additional activities realized by ARRS

• Evaluation by ESF

”Since its founding in 2004, the Slovenian Research Agency (SRA) has been extremely effective in establishing itself as a modern and efficient funding agency comparable to well-established European research councils and funding organisations with much stronger heritage and current portfolios.”

• International enforcement of ARRS

• “Leading Agency”

• Establishment of a common contract (from 4029 to 133 cotracts)

• Electronic administration (2020 - 95% reports with digital signatures)

• Effective supervision: € 320,000 returned within three years