Republic of Slovenia Slovenian Research Agency Tivolska 30 Ljubljana, Slovenia

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Republic of SloveniaSlovenian Research
AgencyTivolska 30Ljubljana, Slovenia
Dr. Franci Demšar Director http//www.arrs.gov.s
i/sl/
Maribor, 5. June 2008
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Young country with rich scientific culture!

• The begining of science and technology to the
  late Middle Ages
• First book in Slovenian language - 1550
• University of Ljubljana - 1919
• Slovenian Academy of Science and Arts - 1938
• modern research institutes - after 2. world war
• parallel and complementary concept of ST policy
  from 60s
• autonomous institutional construction of ST
  policy from 1991

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Contents

• About Slovenian Research Agency
• Some facts about the research system in Slovenia
• Trends of outputs of research activities in
  Slovenia
• Research evaluation system of SRA
• Transparency of the SRA work

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Institutional design and position of the SRA
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SRA main areas of operation
Promotion of excellent and applicative
research
Monitoring and analysing
Objective evaluation
Funding of research
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A brief description of the SRA logo

• A graphic image of the manuscript of the
  Logarithm Tables by Slovenian mathematician,
  physicist and artillery officer Jurij Vega.

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• Establishing November 2004, Government of the
  Republic of Slovenia
• Status a legal person of public law indirect
  user of the budget of the Republic of Slovenia
• Mission performing professional tasks relating
  to implementation of the adopted National
  Research and Development Programme
• Budget 150 million per year (2006)

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Total ARRS research funding by budget category
(2007)
?150 Mio
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Slovenian budget for ST, 2005-2009 (public
sources)
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Contents

• About Slovenian Research Agency
• Some facts about the research system in Slovenia
• Trends of outputs of research activities in
  Slovenia
• Research evaluation system of SRA
• Transparency of the SRA work

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Institutionalresearch landscape

• 4 Universities
• University of Ljubljana (26 faculties)
• University of Maribor (12 faculties)
• University of Primorska (7 faculties)
• University of Nova Gorica (6 faculties)
• National Research Institutes (15)
• Private (non-profit) Research Institutes (ca.
  100)
• Research unites in business (ca. 300)

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Evolution of research organizations in Slovenia
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Number of Researchers in FTE
  1995 2000 2006 Change in 1995-2006
Business sector 1.399 1.380 2.262 62
Public sector 1.607 1.495 1.804 12
Higher-education sector 1.757 1.340 1.740 -1
Private non-for profit sector 134 121 28 - 80
Sum 4.897 4.336 5.834 19
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Share of changes of researchers in last ten years
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Number of female researchers in FTE by sector of
performance
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Government funding of RD in 90s
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RD expenditure as a proportion of GDP () in
Slovenia and in selected countries
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Expenditures (in ) for RD per inhabitant
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Comparative structure of the sources of financing
RD expenditure
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Funding from different sources as a share of RD
expenditure by sector of performance
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Contents

• About Slovenian Research Agency
• Some facts about the research system in Slovenia
• Trends of outputs of research activities in
  Slovenia
• Research evaluation system of SRA
• Transparency of the SRA work

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Comparison of the structure of publishing
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Intensity of changes for publications and
citations
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Number of EU patent applications per million
population, 2004
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Annual growth of EU patent applications
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Contents

• About Slovenian Research Agency
• Some facts about the research system in Slovenia
• Trends of outputs of research activities in
  Slovenia
• Research evaluation system of SRA
• Transparency of the SRA work

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Research evaluation system in Slovenia
CRITERIA METHODS INDICATORS
Scientific quality Quality of proposals Peer review Experts ranking (contents, 5-top outputs)
Scientific outputs Quality of research teams Bibliometrics COBISS, citations
Socio-economic relevance Technometrics Transfer of knowledge (cooperation with non-academics, contracts - money)
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Bodies, participating in the evaluation process
SRA scientific council of the discipline
Temporary body for projects evaluation
Panel of experts
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Evaluation system
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Main principles of the evaluation - 1

• Quantitative criteria
• Quality of scientific records
• Mark A1 publications in last 5 years SICRIS
  (cobiss)
• Mark A2 standardized number of citations (WoS)
• Scientific and socio-economic relevance
• Mark A3 money from sources other that SRA

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Contents

• About Slovenian Research Agency
• Some facts about the research system in Slovenia
• Trends of outputs of research activities in
  Slovenia
• Research evaluation system of SRA
• Transparency of the SRA work

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The role of transparency in research policy

• Enables accountability of public servants and
  reduces potentials of corruption
• Enhance the identification with solutions
• Resolves the (potential) conflict of interests
• Increased effectiveness because of the invisible
  hands of public

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Milestones in developing transparency

• 1958 first report on work of Boris Kidric Fund
• 1994 creation of centralised bibliographic
  system (COBISS)
• 1997 first White book on financing published
  in the Internet
• 1997 obligatory inclusion of bibliographies
  into COBISS
• 1998 Development of Slovenian Current
  Information System (SICRIS)
• 1998 timetable for all national calls published
  in internet a year in advance
• 2006 online White book on financing where all
  transactions are presented in a real time

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Key element of the system legitimacy of
procedures

• Inclusion of researchers in different points of
  the procedure e.g. Evaluation methodology
  unique for each field of science

Researchers
Scientific Council of the Discipline
SRA Scientific Council
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ARRS and Transparency
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Elements of transparency

1. Transparency of instruments
2. Transparency of Procedures
3. Financial Transparency
4. Transparency of results of the research

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Elements of transparency

• Transparency of instruments
• Annual plan of public calls
• Timetable of evaluation process
• Guidelines prepared by the Ministry of higher
  education science and technology
• Published names peers and members of
  decision-making bodies

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Annual plan of public calls
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Timetable of evaluation process
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Guidelines prepared by the Ministry
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Elements of transparency

• Transparency of procedures
• Evaluation methodology unique for each field of
  science
• Transparent membership in expert bodies
  (published on SRA home page)
• Procedure of peers selection is known in advance
• Evaluation criteria (questions for peers) are
  prepared, adopted and published in advance
• Publicly available results of selection process

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Evaluation methodology
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Results of evaluation
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Elements of transparency

• Financial Transparency
• Annual financial reports (White book on
  financing)
• Up-to date overview of distribution of budget
  (online white book)

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Annual report on financing
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Up-to date financing overview
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Elements of transparency

• Transparency of research results
• Use of COBISS bibliographic system
• Use of SICRIS system and its abstracts of
  research work
• The most important scientific results
• Socio-economic significance of research
• Use of international citation indexes (ISI, CSA
  and other bibliographic databases
• In the future implementation of full text
  database

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COBISS bibliographic system
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• 2. SPLICHAL, Slavko. The principle of publicity,
  public use of reason and social control. Media
  cult. soc., 2002, let. 24, št. 1, str. 5-26.
  COBISS.SI-ID 21076573, WoS, št. citatov do
  3.10.06 0, brez avtocitatov 0 JCR IF 0.236,
  x 0.611 sociology 74/93 kategorija 1B2 (Z1)
  tipologijo je verificiral OSICD tocke 40, št.
  avtorjev 1
• 3. SPLICHAL, Slavko. Bentham, Kant and the right
  to communicate. Crit. rev. (N.Y. N.Y.),
  Summer/Fall 2003, let. 15, no. 3/4, str. 285-305.
  COBISS.SI-ID 22641245, WoS, št. citatov do
  7.2.07 1, brez avtocitatov 0 JCR IF , x
  0.468 social sciences, interdisciplinary 55/55
  kategorija 1B2 (Z1) tipologijo je verificiral
  OSICD tocke 40, št. avtorjev 1

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SICRIS information system
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International citation indexes
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Publications in scientific journals with ISI index
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