New Country Report for Slovenia

This is the first report that is done on Slovenia, whose performance is compared to that of Lithuania, Norway, Portugal and Romania. Slovenia recognizes international R&I cooperation, especially through European Partnerships, as crucial for its innovation goals and has made several structural changes that are envisaged to improve the national R&I system and performance including in European Partnerships. While acknowledging the strategic importance and numerous benefits of partnerships, certain challenges exist including funding constraints, administrative burdens, information overload, and limited visibility of results. Slovenia is actively working to address these challenges. Backed up by the changes already made and those planned, Slovenia has a high potential to strengthen its performance in partnerships. At the EU level, concerns were raised about the number and complexity of partnerships, the need for standardization and for a central information hub, and the allocation of funding.

ERA-LEARN has been producing country reports since 2019. The selection of the countries is based on a combination of variables: number of network participations, network coordination, national commitments to partnerships, etc., based on the data included in the ERA-LEARN database and their combination with relevant R&I indicators from EUROSTAT, OECD and the European Innovation Scoreboard.

Download: ERA-LEARN Country Report Slovenia