VEGA (Scientific Grant Agency)
VEGA is an advisory body of the Minister of Education of the Slovak Republic and the president of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAS) on the issues of: a) dispensation of priorities of the science policy defined by the Ministry of Education and the Presidency of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, b) mutually co-ordinated progress for the selection and evaluation of scientific projects, c) effective utilization of financial means for science in the department of education and the SAS, d) co-operation between workplaces and institutions that are active in the department of education and the SAS, especially by means of common research projects of scientists from the department of education and the SAS. There is no special commission for mobility in VEGA. Mobility aspects belong to the Commission No. 4 for electro-technology and informatics.
Duration
max. 3 years
Budget for 2005
Current costs: 4,273,490 EUR (for all kinds of projects)
Capital costs: 2,050,900 EUR (for all kinds of projects)
Contact
SAV: Department of Science and Research Slovak Academy of Science
Štefánikova 49, 814 38 Bratislava 1, Slovakia
Higher Education:
Department of science and technology for the higher education
Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republik
Stromová 1
813 30 Bratislava 1