Academic Organisations
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OpenCourseWare Consortium
The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a collaboration of more than 200 higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model. The mission of the OpenCourseWare Consortium is to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.
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MIT OpenCourseWare
MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity. MIT OpenCourseWare is a free publication of MIT course materials that reflects almost all the undergraduate and graduate subjects taught at MIT.
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TU Delft OpenCourseWare
Delft University of Technology has joined the OpenCourseWare Consortium in offering the world free access to certain course content online. TU Delft OpenCourseWare (OCW) seeks to capitalize on the potential of the internet to eliminate borders and geographic distance as obstacles to the instantaneous exchange of knowledge and new ideas. Unlike distance learning programs that charge tuition, provide formal instruction and limit participation, OpenCourseWare offers all course materials free to everyone with online access. Educators from around the world may upgrade their classes; students may enhance their coursework or pursue self study; the general public may glimpse the depth and breadth of what leading universities are offering and benefit from reading lists and lectures.
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University of California, Irvine - OpenCourseWare
The University launched its OpenCourseWare initiative in November 2006. As the first West Coast university and UC campus to join the OpenCourseWare Consortium (OCWC), our OCW project is growing rapidly with the addition of nearly10 new courses every month.
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Video Journals
This initiative arose mainly through the activities of the PASCAL (Pattern Analysis, Statistical Modelling and Computational Learning) Network of Excellence funded by the European Union over a period of ten years from 2003 to 2013 together with its legacy organisation Knowledge 4 All Foundation that aims among other initiatives to promote the availability of open access academic content.
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Machine Learning Video Journal
This new journal aims to give researchers a way of rapidly understanding the key message and main ideas behind a paper available elsewhere. One of the authors of each paper presents a short video summary of their paper enabling viewers to form an impression of the content and relevance of the paper to their research. We have also enabled a feature allowing viewers to add their own comments about papers. Each entry includes a link to the original paper together with any additional material or addenda that authors wish to include. This initiative arose mainly through the activities of the PASCAL (Pattern Analysis, Statistical Modelling and Computational Learning) Network of Excellence funded by the European Union over a period of ten years from 2003 to 2013 together with its legacy organisation Knowledge 4 All Foundation that aims among other initiatives to promote the availability of open access academic content.
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W3C - World Wide Web Consortium
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards. Led by Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee and CEO Jeffrey Jaffe, W3C's mission is to lead the Web to its full potential.
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MultilingualWeb
The MultilingualWeb project is exploring standards and best practices that support the creation, localization and use of multilingual web-based information. It is coordinated by the W3C In order to build on current internationalization of the Web and move it forward as the importance of ensuring the multilingual viability of the World Wide Web is of paramount importance.
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Carnegie Council
The Carnegie Council is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, educational institution dedicated to increasing understanding of the relationship between ethics and international affairs. Founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1914, the Council is a forum for the world's leading thinkers, experts, and decision-makers. Through videos, audios, and publications, the Council reaches a global audience, and embodies Andrew Carnegie's two great philanthropic interests: educational opportunity and the peaceful resolution of conflict. Our core educational mission is to expand and enlarge the audience for the simple but powerful message that ethics matter, regardless of place, origin, or belief.
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CEEMAN
CEEMAN is an international management development association established in 1993 with the aim of accelerating the growth in quality of management development in central and eastern Europe. Gradually CEEMAN has become a global network of management development institutions interested in quality of education and innovations in this field, as well as in the broad area of subjects related to change. CEEMAN has expanded to include 170 institutional and individual members from 42 countries in Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia.
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CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is one of the world’s largest and most respected centres for scientific research. Its business is fundamental physics, finding out what the Universe is made of and how it works. At CERN, the world’s largest and most complex scientific instruments are used to study the basic constituents of matter, the fundamental particles. By studying what happens when these particles collide, physicists learn about the laws of Nature. The instruments used at CERN are particle accelerators and detectors. Accelerators boost beams of particles to high energies before they are made to collide with each other or with stationary targets. Detectors observe and record the results of these collisions. Founded in 1954, the CERN Laboratory sits astride the Franco–Swiss border near Geneva. It was one of Europe’s first joint ventures and now has 20 Member States.
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CLARIN - Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure
CLARIN stands for "Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure". It is a research infrastructure that was initiated from the vision that all digital language resources and tools from all over Europe and beyond are accessible through a single sign-on online environment for the support of researchers in the humanities and social sciences.
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Cluster Network
The CLUNET project aims to share experiences and implement concrete pilot projects regarding cluster innovation and development policies. It will be developed by uniting the 13 regions represented in CLUNET and the 64 top-level clusters currently supported by the partners in a single network. The project will focus on future challenges and opportunities for clusters. With the additional participation of the Montreal Metropolitan Community, CLUNET will benefit from the Canadian's experience in cluster policies and will provide a unique platform for internationalisation.
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EFMD - The Management Development Network
EFMD is an international membership organization, based in Brussels, Belgium. With more than 700 member organizations from academia, business, public service and consultancy in 80 countries, EFMD provides a unique forum for information, research, networking and debate on innovation and best practice in management development. EFMD is recognized globally as an accreditation body of quality in management education and has established accreditation services for business schools and business school programmes, corporate universities and technology-enhanced learning programmes.
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Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT (AITI-KACE)
The Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT (AITI-KACE), Ghana's first Advanced Information Technology Institute works to stimulate the growth of the ICT Sector in ECOWAS. Established in 2003 through a partnership between the Government of Ghana and the Government of India, this state-of-the-art facility provides dynamic environment for innovation, teaching and learning as well as practical research on the application of ICT4D in Africa.
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Inštitut za kriminologijo pri Pravni fakulteti v Ljubljani
Inštitut za kriminologijo organizira domača in mednarodna posvetovanja in konference. Na njih strokovni in drugi javnosti posreduje rezultate raziskovalnega dela in na ta način širi informacije o raziskovalnih dosežkih in možni uporabi raziskovalnih izsledkov. Inštitut organizira tudi občasna predavanja na katerih sodelavci inštituta ali vabljeni gostje predavajo o različnih temah.
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International Conference Series on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics (WIMS)
WIMS is a series of conferences concerned with intelligent approaches to transform the World Wide Web into a global reasoning and semantics-driven computing machine.
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IPSA
The International Political Science Association (IPSA), founded under the auspices of UNESCO in 1949, is an international scholarly association. IPSA is devoted to the advancement of political science in all parts of the world. During its history it has helped build bridges between East and West, North and South, and has promoted collaboration between scholars in both established and emerging democracies. Its aim is to create a global political science community in which all can participate, most recently it has been extending its reach in Eastern Europe and Latin America.
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Johns Hopkins Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP)
The Johns Hopkins Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP) was established in 1992 with support from the US Government (NSF, DARPA, DoD). Its aim is to promote research and education in the science and technology of language and speech. As part of its educational mission, the Center offers a wide range of seminars from prominent speakers throughout the academic year and organizes an annual summer research workshop.
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Jožef Stefan Institute
The Jožef Stefan Institute is the leading Slovenian scientific research institute, covering a broad spectrum of basic and applied research. The staff of more than 850 specializes in natural sciences, life sciences and engineering. The subjects concern production and control technologies, communication and computer technologies, knowledge technologies, biotechnologies, new materials, environmental technologies, nanotechnologies, and nuclear engineering.
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Kapelica Gallery
The Kapelica Gallery is a space for international contemporary investigative art that addresses the phenomena of society that is saturated with high technology. The programme consists of spatial installations, performances, sound research and lectures, in which scientific production and technological applications, bio-politics and natural and urban phenomena are discussed.
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KI - Kemijski inštitut
Kemijski inštitut je mednarodno priznana raziskovalna organizacija na področju kemije in sorodnih disciplin. Ustanovljen je bil leta 1946 kot Kemijski laboratorij Slovenske akademije znanosti in umetnosti, danes pa deluje kot javni raziskovalni zavod na področju znanstvene in raziskovalno-razvojne dejavnosti.
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Knowledge for All Foundation Limited
Knowledge for all Foundation joins together an alliance of established international institutions into a forum for discussion and dissemination of advances in innovations in technology enabled education at the university level in established and emerging nations.
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MIT World
MIT World publishes key presentations by the MIT faculty and guest speakers who are shaping the future. These free, on-demand videos, available 24/7 to viewers worldwide, reflect and extend MIT’s educational mission—to provide the best education in science, technology, and related fields—to engaged learners anytime, anywhere.
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Moderna galerija, Ljubljana
Moderna galerija (Museum of Modern Art) is the Slovene national institution for modern and contemporary art. As a museum of Slovene modern art it explores and presents the 20th-century Slovene art tradition, while as a museum of contemporary art and exhibition venue it presents new art practices and their context.
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Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Foundation
The Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Foundation is a non-profit corporation whose purpose is to foster the exchange of research on neural information processing systems in their biological, technological, mathematical, and theoretical aspects. Neural information processing is a field which benefits from a combined view of biological, physical, mathematical, and computational sciences.
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OER Regional Consultations
The Regional Consultations are being organised in partnership with UNESCO and the Government of Slovenia, and with the generous support of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Each Regional Consultation will be further organised in partnership with a ministry or other agency, as appropriate, in the respective host country.
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Open Education for a Better World
Open Education for a Better World (OE4BW) is a tuition-free international online mentoring program created on the basis of the Sustainable Development Goal 4. The program started in the fall 2017 by UNESCO Chair on Open Technologies for OER and Open Learning at the Jožef Stefan Institute and University of Nova Gorica. The program enrolls mentees from all over the world under a guidance of internationally recognized mentors.
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Open Education - Towards a road map
This project is about events around the globe, describing activities in Opening up Education. They focus on all aspects related to openness in education, form practices to resources and copyrights and technology. They describe innovative teaching and learning for all through New Technologies. These talks present open education as an umbrella term under which different understandings of open education can be accommodated, such as open educational resources and MOOCs. The project also presents the main outcome of the 2nd World OER Congress organised by UNESCO and the Government of Slovenia.
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Open Yale Courses - Yale University
Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. The aim of the project is to expand access to educational materials for all who wish to learn.
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Out of the Box
Out of the Box (OB) presents unconventional, creative thinking and new ideas. It’s a concept of modern interdisciplinary events devoted to development and spreading new ideas, concepts and solutions to improve the complex problems of our world and life. Encouraging scientists, artists, professionals and young people to communicate their ideas to a wider community. Illuminating ideas from different angles. Expanding horizons and connecting different fields.
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Science, Technology & Society Initiative
The Science, Technology, and Society Initiative (STS) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst was established to promote multidisciplinary collaboration among the natural, physical and social sciences, engineering and public policy. Located within the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences and administratively based in the Center forPublic Policy and Administration, the STS Initiative serves as a catalyst for innovative research as well as an interdisciplinary forum to discuss issues in science and technology.
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SiNAPSA - Slovensko društvo za nevroznanost
Slovensko društvo za nevroznanost (SiNAPSA) poglablja in širi znanja z vseh področij nevroznanosti.
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Stanford Engineering Everywhere
The mission of Stanford Engineering Everywhere is to seek solutions to important global problems and to educate leaders who will turn great ideas into real changes that will make the world a better place.
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TEDx - independently organized TED events
TEDx was created in the spirit of TED's mission, "ideas worth spreading." The program is designed to give communities, organizations and individuals the opportunity to stimulate dialogue through TED-like experiences at the local level. At TEDx events, unique talks given by live speakers combine with TEDTalks videos to spark deep conversation and connections. TEDx events are fully planned and coordinated independently, on a community-by-community basis.
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Univerza v Novi Gorici
Univerza v Novi Gorici je doma in po svetu znana predvsem po kvaliteti izobraževalnega dela in vrhunskih znanstvenih rezultatih, ki jih dosegajo njeni raziskovalci in profesorji, ponuja številne moderne in interdisciplinarne študijske programe, kar zagotavlja izjemno visoko stopnjo zaposljivosti diplomantov (95 % v enem letu po diplomi). Tesna povezava študijskih programov z raziskovalno dejavnostjo na univerzi in z razvojnimi oddelki v industriji študentom omogoča, da se zelo zgodaj seznanijo s praktičnim delom, kar je ključno za hitro vključevanje v delovni proces.
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Arhiv družboslovnih podatkov (ADP)
Osrednji slovenski Arhiv družboslovnih podatkov je bil ustanovljen leta 1997 kot organizacijska enota v okviru Inštituta za družbene vede na Fakulteti za družbene vede, Univerza v Ljubljani, z nalogami, da pridobiva pomembne podatkovne vire s širokega nabora družboslovnih disciplin, zanimive za slovenske družboslovce, jih shranjuje in varuje pred uničenjem in namenja nadaljnji uporabi za znanstvene, izobraževalne in druge namene.
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Fakulteta za arhitekturo Univerze v Ljubljani
Ljubljanska fakulteta za arhitekturo velja po splošnem prepričanju za eno boljših srednjevropskih arhitekturnih šol. Njen kvalitetni nivo potrjujejo številni uspešni študenti in diplomanti, ki dosegajo zavidljive rezultate, tako doma kot v tujini, prav tako kvaliteten pedagoški kader, ki učinkovito pokriva večino sodobnih vidikov arhitekturnega ustvarjanja.
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Fakulteta za družbene vede Univerze v Ljubljani
FDV je največja interdisciplinarna, javna izobraževalna in raziskovalna institucija v Sloveniji. S svojimi bogatimi človeškimi viri, lastnim raziskovalnim inštitutom, osrednjo družboslovno knjižnico in založbo razvija vrsto družboslovnih disciplin katerih preplet predstavlja optimalno sinergijo sodobnih družboslovnih znanj. Svojo akademsko odličnost gradi Fakulteta s svojim izstopajočim teoretičnim in empiričnim raziskovalnim delom, obsežnim publiciranjem znanstvenih in strokovnih prispevkov ter z uspešnim prenosom rezultatov raziskovalnega dela v izobraževalni proces in v prakso.
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Fakulteta za matematiko in fiziko Univerze v Ljubljani
Fakulteta za matematiko in fiziko (FMF) je nastala leta 1995 z razdružitvijo tedanje Fakultete za naravoslovje in tehnologijo, študija fizike in matematike na Univerzi v Ljubljani pa obstajata vse od njene ustanovitve leta 1919. Danes ima Fakulteta 1100 dodiplomskih in 80 podiplomskih študentov. Vsako leto prirejamo študentsko prvenstvo v programiranju in razpisujemo Halcomove nagrade za raziskovalno delo študentov.
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Filozofska fakulteta Univerze v Ljubljani
Poslanstvo Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani je to da izobražuje študente in ustvarja vrhunske izobražence z odprtim in kritičnim mišljenjem na področju humanistike in družboslovja ter izobraževanja učiteljev s teh področij. Posebno pozornost posveča krepitvi ved nacionalnega pomena, ki soustvarjajo slovensko identiteto. Goji znanstvenoraziskovalno delo, odpira nova znanstvena področja, razvija interdisciplinarnost in za svoje študente uvaja nove študijske programe. Znanstvena spoznanja vključuje v študijski proces tako, da na tradicijah gradi novo kakovost, bistveno za slovensko samozavedanje in ustvarjalno prisotnost fakultete v mednarodnem prostoru.
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Javna agencija za raziskovalno dejavnost RS
Javna agencija za raziskovalno dejavnost Republike Slovenije (ARRS) opravlja strokovne, razvojne in izvršilne naloge v zvezi z izvajanjem sprejetega Nacionalnega raziskovalnega in razvojnega programa v okviru veljavnega proračunskega memoranduma in državnega proračuna, ter druge naloge pospeševanja raziskovalne dejavnosti, skladno z namenom ustanovitve. ARRS opravlja z zakonom določene naloge v javnem interesu z namenom, da zagotovi trajno, strokovno in neodvisno odločanje o izbiri programov in projektov, ki se financirajo iz državnega proračuna in drugih virov financiranja.
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MAO - Muzej za arhitekturo in oblikovanje / Museum of Architecture and Design
Muzej za arhitekturo in oblikovanje (MAO) je eden najstarejših muzejev za arhitekturo in oblikovanje v Evropi. Leta 1972 ga je ustanovila Mestna občina Ljubljana, leta 2010 pa je ustanoviteljske obveznosti prevzela Vlada Republike Slovenije. Zbira, ohranja in javnosti posreduje znanje o arhitekturi in oblikovanju. Vodi in se vključuje v projekte v Sloveniji, pa tudi v regiji in širšem mednarodnem prostoru.
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MyMachine Slovenija
MyMachine je pobuda in intelektualna lastnina fundacije MyMachine s sedežem v Kortrijku v Belgiji, ustanovili pa so jo Leidal, sklad skupnosti Zahodne Flandrije in univerza za uporabne znanosti HOWEST. Gre za neprofitno iniciativo, ki jo v Belgiji izvajajo že od leta 2008, v Sloveniji pa smo se ji pridružili v začetku leta 2014. Namen iniciative je spodbujanje ustvarjalnosti v izobraževanju, in sicer tako, da se preko povezovanja vseh stopenj izobraževanja in industrije omogoča uresničitev idej otrok – izdelava njihovih sanjskih strojev.
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NIB - Nacionalni inštitut za biologijo
Nacionalni inštitut za biologijo (NIB) je tretji največji javni raziskovalni zavod na področju naravoslovnih ved v Sloveniji in predstavlja najprodornejše in najsodobnejše raziskovalne potenciale v osnovnih in uporabnih bioloških raziskavah.
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Prirodoslovni muzej Slovenije
Nacionalni muzej je muzej z naravoslovno, znanstveno in pedagoško vsebino, je najstarejša slovenska kulturna in znanstvena institucija, ki izvira iz Deželnega muzeja ustanovljenega 1821. Muzej poseduje nacionalne, evropske in svetovno pomembne naravoslovno študijske zbirke, v katerih so vidne spremembe biotske raznovrstnosti, razvoj naravoslovne miselnosti in tehnik zbiranja ter obdelave muzejskega gradiva. Istočasno je tudi raziskovalna institucija, ki raziskuje naravo in kulturno dediščino naravnega izvora.
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Univerza v Ljubljani
Univerza v Ljubljani goji temeljno, aplikativno in razvojno raziskovanje, pri čemer si prizadeva dosegati odličnost in najvišjo kakovost na vseh področjih znanosti in umetnosti, kot so humanistika, družboslovje, jezikoslovje, umetnost, medicina, naravoslovje, tehnika in tehnologija. Na osnovi lastnega raziskovanja ter lastnih in tujih raziskovalnih dosežkov izobražuje vodilne znanstvenike in strokovnjake, ki so usposobljeni za vodenje trajnostnega razvoja, ob upoštevanju izročila evropskega razsvetljenstva in humanizma ter ob upoštevanju človekovih pravic. Pri tem spodbuja interdisciplinarni in multidisciplinarni študij.
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ZRSS - Zavod Republike Slovenije za šolstvo
Zavod RS za šolstvo spodbuja razvoj šolstva. Sodeluje pri posodabljanju kurikula v najširšem pomenu besede. Pedagoški svetovalci Zavoda RS za šolstvo v ta namen raziskujejo, inovirajo, priporočajo in podpirajo razvoj sprememb v praksi, teoriji in zakonodaji. Zavodovo temeljno poslanstvo je vpeljevanje vseživljenjskega učenja s cilji trajnostnega razvoja, inovativnega okolja in inovativnosti. Tako omogoča avtonomijo dejavnikom v procesu vzgoje in izobraževanja. Njegove glavne naloge so opravljanje svetovalnih, razvojnopreučevalnih in drugih strokovnih nalog s področja vzgoje in izobraževanja.