Ministry of Education, Science and Sport Republic of Slovenia Ministry of Education, Science and Sport Republic of Slovenia Research in Slovenia Dr. Livija Tušar Berlin, 13 October 2004

Ministry of Education, Science and Sport Republic of Slovenia Ministry of Education, Science and Sport Republic of Slovenia S LOVENIA Basic data Area: km 2 Population: 2 mio. Constitution: Parliamentary democracy Population density: 98.0 per km 2 Capital: Ljubljana (population ) GDP €/capita (2002) GERD as % of GDP: 1.53 (2002)

Number of scientific publications per million population, 1999 

Ministry of Education, Science and Sport Republic of Slovenia Ministry of Education, Science and Sport Republic of Slovenia GERD by source of funding, 2002 (%) GERD as % of GDP in %

THE STRATEGY FOR THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF SLOVENIA (2001) Implementation THE NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN - NDP (DEC 2001) … reducing the lag of Slovenia behind the average level of economic development in the EU… EU Structural Funds SINGLE PROGRAMMING DOCUMENT (2003)

Strategy Research and Development Activities Act (2002) NDP National R&D Programme SPD (NR&DP) Strategy Research and Development Activities Act (2002) NDP National R&D Programme SPD (NR&DP) (in preparation)

Research Funding System Government: –Ministry of Education, Science and Sport – M.E.S.S. –Ministry of Economy –Other ministries Fundations: –Slovenian Science Fundation –Ad Futura Other

Research Institutions I 3 Universities ( HE students in 2003/4): –University of Ljubljana: 23 faculties, 3 art academia, 1 professional college –University of Maribor: 12 faculties, 1 professional college –University of Primorska, Koper (from 2003): 3 faculties, 2 professional colleges –8 Free-standing HE institutions: 5 faculties, 3 professional colleges Slovenian Academy of Science and Arts

Research Institutions II 17 public research institutes: –Jozef Stefan Institute –ZRC SAZU – The Scientific Research Centre of SASA –National Institute of Chemistry –Institute of Metals and Technology –Institute of Mathematics, Physics and Mechanics –Institute for Economic Research –Slovenian Forestry Institute –The Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia –Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute –The Educational Reseach Institute –The Institute of Contemporary History –… 2 national infrastructure institutes 294 research units in the business sector

Main MESS Instruments Research programmes (5 years) programmes from 2004 to In year 2004 the budget will be 47 MEUR Basic and applied research projects (2-3 years) projects financed from In year 2004 the budget will be 7.9 MEUR Targeted research programmes (1-3 years) - In year 2004: 99/286 projects were selected and its budget is 4.38 MEUR (total amount) Young researchers programme (4 years) Research infrastructure International co-operation

Ministry of Education, Science and Sport Republic of Slovenia Ministry of Education, Science and Sport Republic of Slovenia Some topics of funded projects – pathogenic micro organisms Food Safety – some examples With PCR-based detection systems for food-borne bacteria: Salmonella sp ec., Listeria monocytoge - nes Medicine – some examples Antimicrobial endotoxin neutralizing peptides to combat infectious diseases (FP5) Control of invasive infections of S. pnevmoniae, H. influenzae, N. meningitidis, S. aureus, E. coli Chlamydia pneumoniae and coronary diseases Molecular diagnosis of atypical pneumonia. Tuberculosis Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato

MESS’s R&D expenditure by scientific disciplines, in year 2002 (%) Source: MESS report

MESS budget for science by programmes, 2003 (128 mio €) Source: MESS report

Young Researchers AIM: more people with higher education per capita  young researchers are employed for a specified period  along with the post-graduate studies, they work on basic and applied projects  within the period of training and education at home, they can also study abroad (from 1 to 12 months)

International cooperation Bilateral cooperation: 22 concluded agreements and 570 projects (in year 2004) Slovenia also strives to establish a higher level of institutionalised bilateral cooperation with states considered Slovenia’s most important partners, and redirect bilateral co-operation to joint R&D projects in which Slovene organisations and industry should have a larger share, in order to ensure the necessary transfer of knowledge and new technologies to the industrial sector.

International co-operation Number of bilateral projects Source: MESS reports

International co-operation, Number of multilateral projects ( ) Source: MESS reports

Number of funded projects and number of coordinators in the FP5 (1999 – 2003) with Slovenian participants Source: MESS jun-04

Ministry of Education, Science and Sport Republic of Slovenia Ministry of Education, Science and Sport Republic of Slovenia ERA NET projects CA PathoGenomics Trans-European cooperation and coordination of genome sequencing and functional genomics of human-pathogenic microorganisms CA FoodSafeERA Food Safety - Forming a European platform for protecting consumers against health risks