Research in Slovenia October

TRADITION - Evolution of R&I in Slovenia 1550 Primož Turbar, first printed books in Slovene Janez Vajkard Valvasor ( ), fellow of The Royal Society in London 1693 Academia operosorum Labacensium, first scientific academy in Ljubljana Jurij Vega ( ), Logarithm Tables Jožef Stefan ( ), Rector of the University of Vienna ( ), crater on the moon is called Stefan, Stefan’s law in physics 1919 University of Ljubljana (beginnings in 1597) Frederik Pregl ( ), 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 level Ministry of Defence ARRS Executive level Scientific Community

ARRS main areas of operation Promotion of excellent and applicative research Monitoring and analysing Funding of research Objective evaluation

Research in Slovenia -Funding and Relevance -Scientific quality -Information Technology Support

European comparison 2000–2011: GDP per inhabitant, % GERD R&D % GERD R&D GDP per inhabitant Source: Eurostat

Agency funds by scientific disciplines

Funds from sources outside Agency for the public sector Resources from the bussines:Slovenia0,06 % GDP EU-270,05 % GDP

Innovation index Slovenia/EU-2788,9 %91,7 %91,9 %97,4 %93,4 % 12 / 27 Source: UNU-MERIT, EC

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Patent applications per million population (Source: EPO) Slovenia/EU-2736,4 %45,2 %47,1 %49,7 % 14 / 27

Patent applications per million population 2011 (Source: EPO)

Research in Slovenia -Funding and Relevance -Scientific quality -Information Technology Support

Documents per million population (Source: WoS) 5 / Slovenia/EU-2762,8 %88,6 %131,1 %166,5 %186,4 %

Documents per million population 2007–2011 (Source: WoS)

Slovenia/EU-2731,1 %52,8 %76,4 %104,5 %125,8 % Citations per million population (Source: WoS) 11 / 27

Citations per million population 2007–2011 (Source: WoS)

Impact relative to world (Source: WoS)

Number of publications within the top 10% most cited publications per million population Source: Science-Metrix, 2012

Number of publications within the top 10% most cited publications in 2008 per million population

Number of publications within the top 1% most cited publications per million population Source: ESI, ISI WoS,

Number of publications within the top 1% most cited publications in the period per million population

PRE-SELECTION Call for pre-selected researchers on a 5-year scientific production basis ~ 100 % DRAFT APPLICATIONS (OUTLINE PROPOSALS) A PROJECTS 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 PROJECTS Panel: 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 Research Two Step Evaluation Process

Scientific excellence and relevance of research programmes

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 ARRSIZUM Currently presented entities: 933 research organisations 1490 research groups researchers 5731 research projects 450 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

COBISS bibliographic system COBISS.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 ( % reports with digital signatures) Effective supervision: € 320,000 returned within three years