1. RUĐER BOŠKOVIĆ INSTITUTE Scientific Discoveries for Innovative Economy and Society

2. RBI IS THE LARGEST CROATIAN MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH INSTITUTE IN: physics chemistry marine and environmental research and geosciences molecular biology biomedicine computer science electronics/engineering

3. High quality basic research Strong involvement in higher education Leading contribution to the growth of the national economy MISSION

4. Croatian Leading EU Centre of Scientific Excellence VISION

5. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND ‘’Half a century of scientific excellence…’’

6. Einstein, Max Planck, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg and Paul Dirac Ivan Supek Ruđer Josip Bošković (1711 – 1787)

7. 1950 195519571962

8. 19631969 19901997

9. MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCI INCUBATOR RBI TODAY 130,000 M² AREA 82 RESEARCH LABORATORIES 12 RESEARCH DIVISIONS 2 CENTRES 850 EMPLOYEES OVER 500 RESEARCHERS AND SCIENTISTS OVER 300 PhDs

10. RBI OVERVIEW PHYSICS CHEMISTRY LIFE SCIENCES ENVIRONMENT CENTERS: ICT,NMR 6% of Croatian researchers LASER AND ATOMIC RESEARCH MATERIAL CHEMISTRYMOLECULAR MEDICINESEA & ENVIROMENTCOMPUTER SCIENCE ELECTRONICSORGANIC CHEM. & BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGYNMR EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS PHYSICAL CHEM. THEORETICAL PHYSICS ~ 50% of Croatian registered scientific equipment 32% of Croatian publications

11. 200 RBI SCIENTISTS INVOLVED 78 undergraduate courses 245 graduate courses ≈10 PhD programs EDUCATION

12. CAPITAL EQUIPMENT WORTH EUR 20m

13. LEADER RBI – CRO LEADER IN PULLING EU RESOURCES

14. 201020112012201320142015 Croatian projects FP7/Horizon 2020 NEW PROJECTS, MILLIONS OF EUROS 10 5 0 RBI- CRO LEADER IN INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS  2 CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE  CENTRE OF COMPETENCE ...

15. HORIZON2020 With the capacity of six percent of the total number of scientists in Croatia, RBI pulled almost 60 percent of the total funds raised by all scientific institutions in Croatia. 60%

16. SPIN OFF COMPANIES Commercialization of innovations and technology transfer Innovative ICT technologies Biotech company for R&D in the life sciences (cancer drugs) Solutions for the analysis, synthesis and separation of target compounds Breast and other genetic hereditary diagnostics R Research and development of new radionuclides and R&D Based on Robin Hood method problem solving and calculations in electrostatics software

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