Strengthening research support and activities to advance European research projects - KRPAN

On 11 October 2022, the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport launched the call for proposals "Activities to strengthen the project offices of public research organisations" under the Recovery and Resilience Plan.

The University of Ljubljana, together with its consortium partners the Jožef Stefan Institute, the University of Maribor, the University of Primorska and the Koper Scientific Research Centre, was successful in the call for proposals with the project "Strengthening Research Support and Activities for Progress in European Research Projects - KRPAN".

The investment project aims to strengthen the activities and professional research support at the partner organisations and to improve the quality of project applications to Horizon Europe and other centralised European programmes.

The investment is part of the actions of the plan, which is funded by the Recovery and Resilience Plan mechanism (noo.gov.si).

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Co-funded by the Republic of Slovenia, the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Innovation and the European Union - NextGenerationEU.

Deadline

Project status

In progress

Content tags

RRP – Recovery and Resilience Plan

Financing

The approved funding for the project amounts to 1,276,238.02 €, of which 1,240,803.58 € from the Recovery and Resilience Facility (NextGenerationEU) and 35,434.44 € for VAT (RS budget).

Lead authority and implementer of the action

Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Innovation

Final recipient

University of Ljubljana, Institute "Jožef Stefan", University of Maribor, University of Primorska and Koper Science and Research Centre

Project objectives

  • Recruit 6 additional professional staff at partner organisations to provide additional support for European project applications,
  • Increase the knowledge and skills to prepare quality project applications and to manage projects successfully in order to improve the quality of applications submitted to calls for proposals of centralised EU programmes, with a focus on the Horizon Europe programme,
  • To facilitate the transfer of good practices between educators/researchers and between research managers and to improve cooperation between the project offices of the consortium partners, their organisational units and other Slovenian and European JROs,
  • Expand the network of potential partners from different sectors for interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral networking with a view to new joint applications to European Research Programme calls,
  • Seek to increase the success rate of project applications in relation to Horizon 2020.

Project results

6 new recruits in project offices and the organisation of 40 events, including 16 training sessions on improving the quality of European project applications, 8 networking events for researchers with national and international partners with a view to joint applications to European research calls, 7 working visits to successful research organisations in Europe, 5 events for the exchange of good practices, and 4 consortium meetings, two of which were consortia meetings of all the consortia selected in the call for proposals "Activities to strengthen the project offices of the JRO".