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.