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The Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAS), a nongovernmental body, is the recognised leading research and scientific institution in Slovakia. The SAS as funding body supports those scientific disciplines which have attained international level and which are deemed necessary for the advancement of Slovakia. Nowadays, the Slovak Academy of Sciences successfully presents itself nationally and worldwide through the results in basic and applied research. It consists of 70 organizations, of which 46 are budgetary and 24 are subsidised. The Academy publishes 54 scientific and professional journals and 8 yearbooks. There are 49 scientific and scholarly associations, societies and unions affiliated with the SAS, which operate in accordance with the Law on Civic Associations. The Assembly, the Scientific Council, and the Presidium are the Academy’s self-governing bodies.
The Assembly is the supreme self-governing Academy’s body. Its members are elected by the academic staff of the respective scientific organizations from the academic staff of the SAS. The Scientific Council is a self-governing body of the Academy that deliberates upon scientific and conceptional tasks. It is composed of the President of the Academy and other members of the Academy’s Presidium, representatives delegated from the higher education sector, and a representative from the sector of business enterprising engaged in scientific research and development. Membership of the Scientific Council also includes representatives from organizations and institutions engaged in scientific research and development outside the Academy, appointed by the Chair of the Academy’s Assembly on the basis of elections of the members in the Scientific Council held by the Assembly.
The Presidium is an executive self-governing body of the Academy. The Presidium is composed of the President, vice-presidents, Scientific Secretary, and other members of the Presidium, appointed by the Chair of the Academy’s Assembly on the basis of the electoral returns for the Academy’s Presidium. The Academy is presided by the President, who is appointed and recalled by the President of the Slovak Republic. The Presidium of the Academy coordinates and supervises the activities of the Academy and the performance of its organizations via the sections for the respective groups of science branches.

www.sav.sk

MNT-ERA.NET Support Programmes

Name of initiative/programme: Promoting science and research in selected major directions for the SR and EU

Programme owner (ministry): Slovak Academy of Sciences (www.sav.sk)

Executing agency:  Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Physics
RNDr. Eva Majkova, DrSc.
Dubravska cesta 9
845 11 Bratislava 45
Slovak Republic

Contact: Jan Barancik
phone:  + 421 - 2 57 51 01 37  + 421 - 2 57 51 01 37
mail: barancik@up.upsav.sk
web: www.sav.sk

 


 Program/Call name Technology/application foci covered Opening/Cut-off dates
a) New materials and devices in submicron technology
  1. Development of submicron technologies:
a) for preparation of 2D periodic arrays composed of insulated sub-micron particles or multilayer systems containing such particles by deposition and self-assembling under various conditions, such as an external magnetic or electric filed (bottom up method) or by deposition and pattering using a high resolution lithography, such as electron beam one (top down method)+ b) for fabrication of 2D and 3D thin film systems by chemical and physical deposition methods with applications in sub-micron electronic, magnetic, and electrochemical systems and components of new generation.
  1. Application of new elements and components base on sub-micron technologies for:
a) magnetic and other type ultrahigh density recording media (several Gb/cm2), b) development of high sensitive magnetic and optical sensors with applications in informatics, metrology, health care and environment.
  1. Research and development of ceramic composites (based on Si-N, Si-C) and metallic materials (based on Al, Cu, Ti) with a structure controlled at the sub-micron level which exhibit unique mechanical, thermal, electrical properties and self-detecting ability. The materials will be applicable in mechanical engineering, automotive industry, medicine, electrical engineering.
4. Development of materials using mineral biotechnology methods, mechano-chemical and chemical procedures with the aim to prepare new sorbents for gas and solid waste disposal, opto-electronic, magnetic and semiconductor products and pigments. Application of sub-micron particles to immobilize biologically active components for a targeted drug delivery into pathological zones etc.		 XI/2009-XI/2012
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Phases of R&D being funded (basic research, pre-competitive, application, serial production, market entry), funding rates (app.)

Basic and targeted applied research

Major restrictions (e.g. types of institutions eligible for funding; SMEs, public/private etc., openness to transnational consortia)

Science, SME´s. joint projects

Other national/regional programmes potentially suitable for co-operation


 Program/Call name Executing agency, contact Supported technologies/applications
a) New materials (within the section physical, chemical and engineering sciences) Grant Agency VEGA, Bratislava Joint Grant Agency of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Slovak Universities for research projects. Call is open for the Institutes of the Academy and Universities (basic and applied research in any scientific area including new micro- and nano- materials). Annual budget about 1.3 M EUR. Duration of projects 1-2 years. One call per year. Standard criteria for eligibility and evaluation of projects proposals.
b) Please add b) c) etc. if necessary!