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SLOVENIA. Capital: Ljubljana Population: 2 million Language: Slovenian Currency : Euro GDP growth ( est . 2014 ): 1,4% GDP per capita ( est . 2014): EUR 17.550. ESLOVÊNIA. Slovenian E conomy – Export Driven. Top export categories of goods, 201 3.
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SLOVENIA Capital: LjubljanaPopulation: 2 millionLanguage: SlovenianCurrency: EuroGDP growth (est. 2014): 1,4%GDP percapita (est. 2014): EUR 17.550 ESLOVÊNIA
Slovenian Economy – ExportDriven Top export categories of goods, 2013 • €21.6 billion exports of goods and services in 2013; approx. 61 % of GDP • 75 % of exports of goods destined for EU Geographic distribution, 2013
Slovene Innovation Using natural material ICT - Talking Tom Ultralight powered glider Pharmaceutical and biochemical industries Automotive industry Source: Slovenia Partner: http://www.investslovenia.org/fileadmin/dokumenti/is/Publications/Connect_to_Slovenian_Business_Excellence_2012-reduced_file.pdf
Slovenian-Brazilian Economic Cooperation • Legal Framework: Bilateral Agreement on Trade and Economic Co-operation (1997) • Institutional Framework: First Session of Slovenian-Brazilian Joint Commission on Economic Co-operation, April 2014, Brasília: • Highlighted areas of cooperation: innovation, renewable energy, transportation and logistics, tourism, information and communication technology, automotiveindustry, and agriculture. • Economic Division of the Embassy in Sao Paulo: kso@gov.si TRADE: Brazil is Slovenia's most important trading partner in Latin America: Bilateral trade in 2013: 130.6 mio EURBrazil exports to Slovenia: 87.9 mio EURSlovenia exports to Brazil: 42.7 mio EURIncrease of bilateral trade in the first half of 2014 compared to 2013 for 48% FDI: Slovenian FDI to Brazil EUR 2.8 million at the end of 2013. Interest by Brazilian company in Slovene automotive industry, and agriculture machinery.
Slovenian-BrazilianScientificCooperation • Legal Framework: • Bilateral Agreement on Scientific and Technological Cooperation (1998) • Agreement between the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology of Slovenia and CNPq (2007) • MoU between the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport of the Republic of Slovenia and the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Federative Republic of Brazil Concerning a Joint Research and Development Cooperation Programme in Priority Areas (2002) • Cooperation mechanism - Joint calls of cooperation: • 2010 (5 projects), 2011 (6 projects), 2012-2014 (7 projects: environment, technics, agriculture and medicine) • Main Slovene partner institution: National Institute of Biology, University in Maribor, Agricultural institute of Slovenia, University of Ljubljana, Center of Excellence for Biosensors • New objective: to establish Joint Committee on Bilateral Scientific and Technological Cooperation in 2015
R&D Measures in Slovenia R&D expenditure in 2012: 2,63 % of GDP • In last five years established severalCentres of Excellence and the Competence Centres of Slovenia: • Centres of Excellence is a measure which supports the concentration of resources on technology areas that are crucial to the competitiveness of the economy. It contributes to the efficient flow of knowledge and applications into products and services. • Competence Centres are defined as research development centres, run by industrial partners, connecting partners from the economic and public research sectors, and aimed at strengthening development capability and the use of new technologies for the development of new competitive products, services and processes in the priority areas of technological development. Technology Park in Ljubljana (1995) http://www.tp-lj.si/en
Centresof Excellence Centre of Excellence in Nanosciences and Nanotechnology http://www.nanocenter.si/index.php?page=english Centre of Excellence for Biosensors, Instrumentation and Process Control http://www.i-tech.si/co-funded-projects/ongoing-projects/cobik Centre of Excellence for Integrated Approaches in Chemistry and Biology of Proteins http://cipkebip.org/ Centre of Excellence for Low-Carbon Technologies http://www.conot.si/eng/ Centre of Excellence Advanced Non-Metal Materials with Technologies of the Future http://www.conamaste.si/eng/ Centre of Excellence for Polymer Materials and Technologies http://en.polimat.si/ Centre of Excellence Space: Science and Technology http://www.space.si/en/ NMR Centre of Excellence for Studies in Biotechnology, Pharmacy and Physics of Matter http://enfist.si/En/
Further information Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia www.brasilia.embassy.si vbi@gov.si • Economic Division of the Embassy in Sao Paulo: kso@gov.si • SPIRIT Slovenia - Public Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for the Promotion of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Development, Investment and Tourism • http://www.spiritslovenia.si/en • Slovenian Business Portal • http://www.poslovniportal.si/ • Slovenia Partner • http://www.sloveniapartner.eu • / • InvestSlovenia • http://www.investslovenia.org/ Slovenian Research Agency https://www.arrs.gov.si/en/dobrodoslica.asp Obrigada pela sua atenção! Andreja Šimenc Embaixada da República da Eslovênia vbi@gov.si