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Research in Slovenia
Ljubljana, 12.3.2008 mag. Marta Šabec
ParadižService for intenational co-operation and
European affairsMinistry of Higher Education,
Science and Technology
(Sources MHEST, SURS, EC, Eurostat )
Bojan Jenko
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SLOVENIABasic Data
Constitution Parliamentary democracy Population
density 98.0 per km2 Capital Ljubljana
(population 330 000) EU Member State since
May 1, 2004 GDP 15.167 /
capita (2006) 16.532 / capita (est.2007)
Turnover 37.000 Mio (2006)
Exports 20.500 Mio (2006)
GERD as of GDP (2006) 1.59 By source
of funds - business sector 0.94 GDP -
public sector 0.60 GDP - abroad
0.09 GDP

• Area 20 256 km2
• Population 2 mio

Source SURS
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Organisation of Public Decision-making and Funding
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Research Policy / Funding System

• Government sector
• Ministry of Higher Education, Science and
  Technology (MHEST)
• Ministry of Economy
• Other Ministries (Ministry of Defence)
• Agencies (established in 2004)
• Slovenian Research Agency (SRA)
• Public Agency for Technology (TIA)
• Private non-profit sector
• Foundations
• Slovenian Science Foundation
• Ad Futura

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RD in national strategic documents

• Research and Development Activities Act 2002
• Slovenias Development Strategy
• June 2005
• Reform Programme for Achieving the Lisbon
  Strategy Goals
• October 2005
• Framework of Economic and Social Reforms to
  Increase Well-being in Slovenia
• November 2005
• Resolution on the National RD Programme for the
  2006-2010 Period
• December 2005

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National Research and Development Programme for
the Period 2006-2010 Priorities
Related to the technological development

• Information and Communication Technologies
• New Materials and Nanotechnologies
• Complex Systems and Innovative Technologies
• Technologies for Sustainable Development
• Health and Life Sciences

Related to the social and cultural development

• Support to national identity, modern Slovenian
  history, natural and cultural heritage
• Development of efficient state and modern
  democratic society
• Management of social processes and risks caused
  by new technologies, globalization and changing
  as in the demografic structure

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Characteristics of the Slovenian RD System

• Small RD system
• Strong human resources and relatively high
  overall investments in RD
• Relatively high quality of public research with
  a well established international co-operation
• High scientific productivity of research
• Relatively low brain-drain- up to now
• Modest cooperation between the research,
  education and business spheres, as well as within
  those spheres

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Research budget of the SRAby main fields, 2007
Research budget 146 M
Source SRA
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Higher Education and Research
Institutions

• 4 Universities
• (Ljubljana, Maribor, Koper, Nova Gorica)
• 23 Independant HE institutions
• 15 Government Research Institutes
• 90 Private non-for Profit Research Institutes
• gt 300 Research Units in the Business Sector

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RD International bilateral co-operation

• EU member countries
• Neighbouring countries
• West Balkan countries
• Non-European ST leading countries
• Regionally important countries

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2007 RD International Bilateral Co-operation

• With 81 countries
• Cooperation based on 93 bilateral documents
• - 44 ST agreements, memoranda, etc.
• - 41 agreements on culture, education
  science
• - 3 agreements on economic and ST
  Cooperation
• - 5 agreements based on succession and
• - 14 other legal bases
• Albania, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Armenia,
  Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belarus, Bosnia and
  Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada,
  Chile, China, Colombia, Costarica, Croatia, Czech
  Republic, Cuba, Cyprus, Denmark, Dominican
  Republic, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France,
  Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Iran,
  Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan,
  Kazakhstan, Korea, Latvia, Lebanon,Lithuania,
  Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malaysia, Malta,Mexico,
  Moldova, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, Norway, New
  Zealand, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal,
  Rumania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Singapore,
  Slovak Republic, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka,
  Sweden, Switzerland, taiwan,Thailand, Tunisia,
  Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Arab
  Emirates, United Kingdom, USA, Uruguay, Yemen,
• 20 bilateral ST agreements in procedure
• Algeria, Angola, Belgium/Flanders,
  Belgium/Valonia, Chile, India, Ireland, Malaysia,
  Malta, Mexico, Montenegro, Morocco, Nepal,
  Netherlands, Peru, South Africa, Sri Lanka,
  Switzerland, Tunisia, Yemen

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Number of Bilateral Research Projects 1994 2007
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RD International bilateral cooperationNumber of
projects by partner countries,2003 - 2007
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2007 RD International Bilateral Co-operation

• 711 research projects in 2007 with 28 countries
  in life, technical, medical, biotechnical, social
  sciences, humanities interdisciplinary
  research
• Albania (6),Argentina (8), Austria (29), Bosnia
  and Herzegovina (20), PR China (54), Croatia
  (85), Czech (53), Cyprus (6), Denmark (14),
  France (48), Greece (26), Hungary (31), India
  (11), Israel (5), Italy (33), Japan (21),
  Macedonia (37), Norway (19), Poland (11),
  Portugal (14), Romania (15), Russian Federation
  (15), Serbia/Montenegro (39), Slovakia (13),
  Turkey (14), Ukraine (13), United Kingdom (19),
  USA (52)

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Bilateral Co-operationNo. of projects
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Russian Federation 3 2 9 15 12 12 10 19
Ukraine 2 0 4 11 10 6 10 13

• Projects topics (2008)
• Russian federation
• (nano-) materials, mathematics, SusDev,
• Biochemistry, Space, IST, Cultural heritage
• Ukraine (nano-)materials, mathematics, SusDev,
  IST

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SI Participation in FP6 Contracts(616 SI
participationsHigher education, Research
organisations, SME, Industry)
Source EC
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SI Participants in FP6
EU25 population 460 mio.  
SI population 2 mio. 0,43

Participants in FP6 projects From EU member states (MS) 325.964
From Slovenia 3.898 1,2

Retained- EU MS 61.721  
Retained with SI participants 589 0,95

Average success rate- EU MS 18,11
Average success rate with SI part. 15,11

Approved funds- EU MS 14.352 B
Approved funds- SI part. 71 M 0,49
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Former Soviet Union countries participants in FP6
No. of FP6 projects No. of FP6 projects with SI partners Projects topics
Russia 116 8 2 IST, 2 citizens, 2 SD, Nanomaterials, Mobility
Ukraine 92 12 4 IST, 2 SD, 2 Citizens, 2 SME, RI, Life Sci
Belarus 23 4 3 IST, SD-Renewable enery
Georgia 33 3 IST, SD-Global change ecosystems, Infrastructures
Moldova 6 4 2 IST, 1 New materials, Society
Azerbaijan 15 1 Information Society Technologies
Armenia 16 2 Information Society Technologies
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SIovenia in FP6 ERA-NET Projects

• In public research funding in Europe EC (FP7) is
  participating with lt 5
• Most of the research is funded by the national
  agencies of MS
• Research in EU is dispersed /with gaps - and
  could be strategicly planned and co-ordinated
  better (more efficient use of funds and building
  the ERA)
• New FP6 instruments
• ERA-NET SSA projects (preparation for CA)
• ERA-NET CA projects (EC funding co-ordination)-gt
• ERA-NET PLUS projects (EC co-funding research)-gt
• Art.169 (joint programming)

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SIovenia in FP6 ERA-NET Projects
(supporting cooperation coordination of
national or regional research funding programmes)

• 71 ERA-NET CA projects were selected by the EC on
  differnt topics
• SIovenia is participating in 20 ERA-NET projects
• MHEST is in 16 ERA-NET projects
• MHEST is active in ERA-NET joint calls

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MHEST in ERA-NET Projects
Project acronym Project title Project duration No. Countries/ partners Joint call for research projects
ERA-ARD The Agricultural Research for Development (ARD) dimension of the European Research Area (ERA) 1.4.2005 -1.4.2008 14/15 Planned 2008/ 2009
ERA-SPOT Strenghtening Photonics and Optical Technologies for Europe 1.5.2005 - 30.4.2008 6/6 Planned 2008
ERA-STAR Regions ERA- Space Technologies Applications Research for the Regions and medium-sized Countries 1.10.2004 30.9.2008 10/16 Announced22.1.2007
ERASysBio Towards a European Research Area for systems biology- a transnational funding initiative to support the convergence of life sciences with information technology and systems sciences 1.2.2006 - 31.1.2009 12/13 Planned 2008/ 2009
HERA Humanities in the European Research Area 1.3.2005 28.2.2009 13/14 Planned 2008/ 2009
HY-CO Coordination Action to Establish a Hydrogen and Fuel Cell ERA-NET, Hydrogen Coordination 1.12.2004 - 30.11.2008 18/21 Announced28.1.2008
MATERA ERA-NET Materials 1.2.2005 31.1.2009 15/17 Announced1. 05.05.20063. 28.1.2008
MNT From micro- and nano-scale science to new technologies for Europe 1.1.2004 31.6.2008 20/22 Announced1. 17.2.20062. 23.2.2007 3. 28.1.2008
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MHEST in ERA-NET Projects
Project acronym Project title Project duration No. Countries/ partners Joint call for research projects
PathoGenoMics Trans-European Cooperation and Coordination of Genome Sequencing and Functional Genomics of Human-patogenic Micro-organisms 1.9.2004 -31.8.2009 11/19 Announced1. 3.2.20062. 28.1.2008
SAFE FOOD ERA Food-Safety Forming a European Platform for Protecting Consumers against Health Risks 1.8.2004 31.7.2008 18/21 Planned2. summer 2008
SEE-ERA NET South-east European ERA-NET 1.9.2004-31.8.2009 14/17 1. Announced 2007 2. Planned 2009
COMPERA National and Regional Programmes and Inniciatives dedicated to the creation and support of Cometence Research Centres 1.6.2005 30.11.2008 12/15
CORNET ERA-NET on National and Regional Programmes to promote Research and the Dissemination of the results of that research to the benefit of Large Communities and SMEs Collective research 1.3.2005 - 29.2.2008 14/18 Announced 1. 14.4.2006 2. 20.4.2007 3. 6.8.2007
MANUNET Walking towards a European regionally-based research area on new processes and flexible manufacturing systems 1.4.2006 31.3.2010 17/20 Announced 28.9.2007
Era SME ERA-NET on National and Regional Programmes to promote Innovation and Cooperation between SMEs and Research Organisations 1.8.2004 31.7.2007 19/21 Announced 28.9.2007
iMERA Implementing Metrology in the European Research Area 1.4.2005 31.3.2008 14/20 -gt Art. 169

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ERASysBio (1.2.2006 - 31.1.2009)

• Systems biology is an emerging field with
  different possible approaches in different
  contexts. It is interdisciplinary by nature and
  in the common aim of achieving the quantitative
  understanding of dynamic biological processes
  through the use of mathematical and statistical
  analyses to integrate biological data in order to
  develop predictive models of biological behaviour
  
• Topics
• Computational biology (in silico modelling of
  complex biological processes, theoretical
  biology)
• Systems engineering, systems theory, simulation
  engineering, bioprocess engineering
• Informatics bioinformatics medical
  informatics, modelling tools, systems design,
  modelling networks, neural networks
• Mathematics algorithms, computational models

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ERASysBio

• Funds
• 2,95 M EUR for coordination activities (85.000)
• Participating
• Germany (veronika.simons_at_fz-juelich.de), Austria,
  Belgium, Finland, France, Israel, Netherlands,
  Norway, Slovenia,United Kingdom, Trento province,
  Russian Federation (Russian Foundation for basic
  research, dr. Vladimir Khromov, Prof. Dr.
  Alexander Tonevitsky, Sergey Siutsyn FP7
  Health), Spain, Luxembourg, Switzerland
• Aims
• Carry out fundamental and strategic collaboration
  in the funding of systems approaches to
  biological research

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ERASysBio

• Achievements
• Overview of national research landscape ongoing
  projects and programmes
• Meetings of representatives of SB centres
• 1st in London February 2007,
• 2nd planned May 2008
• Strategy conference March 2007, Oxford nearly 90
  participants
• Strategy paper Systems biology in the ERA (Nov.
  2007)
• Preparation of a joint call for transnational
  research projects
• Announcement planned in September 2008
• More information
• http//www.erasysbio.net

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MHEST experiences in ERA-NET joint calls

• 1st ERA-NET calls were considered as tentative
• Additional funds for research from the budget
  (MHEST 2005 0 , 2009 3 M )
• Free participation (partner and other countries
  regarding the national strategic interest)
• Coordinated calls allow impelmentation of
  national priorities (formal, topics)
• Common pot (no fair return guaranteed)
  /distributed pot (fair return funding just
  national research)
• Funding not just for tavel (bilateral
  cooperation), but also work, equipment
• Bilateral or multilateral research projects
  possible between different countries in 1 single
  call
• ERA-NET EU FP calls (more direct implementation
  of national priorities, assisstance to
  researchers)

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