NIB 2017

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ANNUAL
REPORT
2017
RESEARCH
PROGRAMMES
AND PROJECTS
In 2017 NIB acted as coordinator of the following research
programmes:
P1-0237 – »Coastal sea research« (7.78 FTE), carried
out in MBS organisation unit, duration 2015-2019;
P4-0165 – »Biotechnology and system biology of
plants« (4.7 FTE), carried out in FITO organisation unit,
duration 2015-2020;
P1-0255 – »Communities, interactions and communications
in ecosystems« (6.59 FTE), carried out in
EKOS organisation unit in cooperation with Slovenian
Museum of Natural History (0.19 FTE), duration 2017–
2022;
P1-0245 – »Ecotoxicology, toxicogenomics and carcinogenesis«
(3.35 FTE), carried out in GEN organisation
unit, duration 2015-2018.
In addition to the four programmes listed above, MBS
department acted as partner in P1-0143 »Cycling of substances
in the environment, mass balances, modelling
of environmental processes and risk assessment« programme
with Jožef Stefan Institute as coordinator and
NIB as partner organisation with 0.32 FTE.
In addition, an infrastructure programme (6 FTE) was
carried out at NIB in 2017.
In 2017, 19 projects funded by the Slovenian Research
Agency were carried out at NIB, with research time
amounting in total to 17,455 working hours or 10,26 FTE
in the scope of:
13 basic research projects (6 as coordinator),
2 applicative research projects,
3 postdoctoral projects,
1 project co-financed in an ERC Complementary
Scheme (as coordinator).
In 2017 the financing of NIB projects by the Slovenian
Research Agency was 0.05% lower in comparison to the
previous year.
4 projects in the scope of the target research project
»Ensuring food for tomorrow« and 1 project in the scope
of the target research project »CRP 2016«, with total
funds amounting to 73,922 EUR, were carried out at NIB
in 2017. In three NIB acted as coordinator and in two as
participating research organisation.
The scale of financing from target research projects was
49.55% higher in comparison to that in the previous
year.
In 2017, NIB implemented two projects under the 7th EU
Framework Programme and seven projects under the
Horizon 2020 programme. Of these, three of them were
concluded this year, while three began implementation.
The revenues generated by these projects amounted to
278,597 EUR and stood for 4.11% of all NIB’s revenues.
Moreover, in 2017, NIB also implemented two projects
under the ARIMNET programme, which falls under the
7th EU Framework Programme, and one project under
the EMPIR programme, which is an integral part of the
Horizon 2020 programme. In 2017, the revenues from
these three projects amounted to 114,858 EUR.
In 2017, NIB implemented ten projects under other international
financing programmes (LIFE, INTERREG Italy –
Slovenia, INTERREG Slovenia – Croatia, INTERREG Europe,
etc.).
Furthermore, it implemented six other projects, co-financed
by European cohesion and investment funds
through Slovenian ministries: two projects from the call
for applications of the Ministry of Science, Education
and Sport “R&D&I in Value Chains and Networks”, three
projects from the call for applications of the Ministry of
Science, Education and Sport for encouraging researchers
at the start of their careers, and one from the call for
applications “Promoting Knowledge Transfer Activities
through the Operation of Technology Transfer Offices”.
The revenues generated by these projects amounted to
585,345 EUR and stood for 8.63% of all NIB’s revenues
in 2017.
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