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VEGA
The Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic and the Slovak Academy of Sciences (VEGA) is an internal grant system for the education sector and the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAS). It ensures a mutually coordinated procedure for the selection and evaluation of basic research projects carried out at universities and research institutes of the SAS. The Agency proposes to the Minister of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic and to the President of the Slovak Academy of Sciences the amount of funding to be allocated from institutional financial resources for the implementation of selected new and continuing scientific research projects.
KEGA
The Cultural and Educational Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic (KEGA) is an internal grant system focused on providing financial support for applied research projects in the fields of education, pedagogy, and creative and performing arts. These projects are initiated by researchers from public universities or the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic within defined thematic areas and are funded from the institutional financial resources of public universities.
APVV
The Research and Development Support Agency (APVV) was established in 2005 by Act No. 172/2005 Coll. on the Organization of State Support for Research and Development and on Amendments to Act No. 575/2001 Coll. on the Organization of Government Activities and the Organization of Central State Administration, as amended. The Agency is a budgetary organization funded from the state budget of the Slovak Republic through the budget chapter of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic. It implements the Government’s Policy Statement, in which building a knowledge-based society in Slovakia is identified as one of the main priorities.