CENTER REPUBLIKE SLOVENIJE ZA MOBILNOST IN EVROPSKE PROGRAME IZOBRAZEVANJA IN USPOSABLJANJA

Their core work

CMEPIUS is Slovenia's national agency for education and training mobility programs, and serves as the country's official EURAXESS contact point — the EU-wide network that helps researchers relocate, find jobs, access funding, and build careers across Europe. In practice, they operate national-level services for incoming and outgoing researchers: visa and administrative support, job portal services, career guidance, and gender-equality promotion in research careers. Their two H2020 projects both sit within the EURAXESS TOP programme, where national contact points collectively maintain and improve the pan-European researcher mobility infrastructure. They function as a policy implementation body, translating EU-level research mobility strategy into concrete services for the Slovenian research community and for international researchers arriving in Slovenia.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

In their early H2020 participation (TOP III, 2015–2018), CMEPIUS was focused squarely on the core EURAXESS mandate: making research careers attractive through mobility support, career development guidance, and gender equality measures. By the time TOP IV launched in 2018, the scope visibly widened: new keywords — 'Open EURAXESS', 'social integration', and 'engagement with industry' — show a shift from service delivery toward network openness and cross-sector reach. The direction is clear: from a mobility facilitation agency toward a broader bridge between researchers, society, and private employers.

CMEPIUS is moving beyond classical researcher relocation support toward facilitating researcher-industry connections and broader social inclusion, which makes them a relevant partner for projects that need a national-level gateway to the Slovenian research workforce or cross-sector talent pipelines.

How they like to work

CMEPIUS has never coordinated an H2020 project — they join as a participant every time, consistent with their role as a national node in a federated European network rather than a research-driving institution. Their two projects involved 46 unique partners across 39 countries, which is exceptionally wide for just two projects and reflects the EURAXESS network structure where all EU and associated-country contact points participate together. Working with them means tapping into that national-level gateway function, not into a research team that leads scientific work.

CMEPIUS has worked with 46 partners across 39 countries — a remarkably broad footprint for only two projects, driven entirely by the pan-European EURAXESS network architecture. Their connectivity is wide but shallow: they know national contact points across nearly all of Europe, but their direct research collaborations are limited to this single network.

What sets them apart

CMEPIUS is the single official EURAXESS node in Slovenia, which means any consortium needing credible national-level researcher mobility expertise or administrative reach into the Slovenian research system has a natural reason to include them. They bring institutional legitimacy, direct access to the European researcher mobility infrastructure, and an established relationship with national education and research authorities — things a research institute or university cannot replicate. For projects working on researcher careers, talent circulation, or open science workforce topics, CMEPIUS offers a nationally mandated and well-networked partner rather than an ad hoc academic team.

Highlights from their portfolio

• EURAXESS TOP III
  Larger of the two projects (€42,188 EC share) and the entry point establishing CMEPIUS as a sustained participant in the pan-European researcher mobility network infrastructure.
• EURAXESS TOP IV
  Marked a clear expansion of scope toward industry engagement and social integration, signalling CMEPIUS's evolution beyond pure mobility administration toward broader workforce-bridging functions.