Profil

Description of job and tasks involved

Working in the Office of European projects which supports the reseachers with councelling, education, information and administrative support in the field of the projects financed from EU funds.

Experience in European research projects

FP6/FP7

TEMPUS

LLP

COST

DAPHNE and other Community programmes

Structural funds

University/organisation

University of Ljubljana is a public autonomous educational, scientific research and artistic institution of HE with a very rich tradition. It is the oldest and the biggest university in Slovenia. It was established in 1919 and it encompasses 26 full members (3 art academies and 23 faculties) and 3 associated members (National University Library, University of Ljubljana Central Technical Library, University of Ljubljana Innovation-Development Institute).

UL ranks among the top 500 universities according to: Times THSE-QS Ranking (500-600), Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities (400-500), Webometrics Ranking of World universities (top 200), URAP - University Ranking by Academic Performance (284).

The UL covers all ISCED areas in the first and second cycle study programs and leads the way in some technology and research fields (cognitive science, physics, nanotechnologies, environmental sciences, biomedicine etc). In the 1st cycle it offers 128 university, 32 higher professional and 7 long-cycle master study programmes. In the 2nd cycle it offers 215 university programmes and 13 joint study programmes, and 21 doctoral study programmes in the 3rd cycle.

On the European scale, by number of students, UL ranks among the largest higher education institutions with 45.607 students enrolled in the year 2013/2014, 5.893 employees and 9.904 graduates with an annual budget of approximately 300 mio €.

UL is very active in national research and education programmes. In 2013 UL had 286 research groups with over 3000 registered researchers (548 ESR), 175 research programmes, 228 basic and 88 applied research projects, 27 post-doc projects, 39 targeted research projects (CRP) and 7 technological platforms. UL is also very active in international R&D programmes: in the period 2007-2013 it was involved as partnering or coordinating institution in more than 750 European projects, among them 160 FP7 projects and 2 ERC grants. In 2013 UL cooperates in 421 running international projects, including 108 FP7 projects and more than 310 other research and educational projects financed by EU Community programmes.

The research administration is carried at the faculties level and at the rectorate level. There is a small office of 2 people at the rectorate providing councelling, education and information support and also one person or an office in almost every faculty to deal with day to day financial and administrative support for the projects.