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Updated in August 2022.

As an EU Member State, Slovenia is part of the European Research Area (ERA) and is implementing open science according to the Conclusions of the Council of the European Union and the European Commission's recommendations.

The national open access strategy 2015-2020 (prolongued to 2021) was fully aligned with provisions on open access in Horizon 2020. From 2022 onwards, Slovenian legislative provisions on open science are fully aligned with Horizon Europe (see Open Science Policy tab). Researchers therefore comply with open science provisions in the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation and in national open science legislation in the same way.

The national open science infrastructure consists of:

  • Repositories with full-text peer-reviewed publications, final works of studies at universities and research data, and the national portal Open Science Slovenia with harvested metadata records;
  • Research infrastructures;
  • Computing and storage facilities, among them supercomputer Vega.
The RDA Node Slovenia was established.

The University of Maribor Library and Academic and Research Network of Slovenia (ARNES) are partners in the NI4OS-Europe project (National Initiatives for Open Science in Europe) that facilitates collaboration of national open science stakeholders and onboarding of national open science infrastructures into the EOSC.

Mr Peter Sterle from the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport acts as the National Point of Reference according to the Commission Recommendation of 25 April 2018 on access to and preservation of scientific information,  and participates in the EOSC Steering Board.

national overview