Announcement about the election of members of the Scientific Board of the Polymer Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (PI SAS)

The Management Board of the PI SAS announces the election of five members of the Scientific Board and three external members of the Scientific Board of the PI SAS, and at the same time invites candidates to send their applications.

Name and the address of the organization:

Polymer Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (PI SAS), Dúbravská cesta 9, 845 41 Bratislava, Slovak Republic (hereinafter “organization”)

Description of election:

Election of five members of the Scientific Board of the organization that will be elected from the employees of the organization eligible to apply for this position and three external members of the Scientific Board of the organization elected from registered candidates from another scientific institution/university.

Rules for application and submission of documents:

All documents required for candidacy according to the list of required documents presented below must be delivered in written form to the organization’s secretariat by 14 November 2022 at 12:00 (noon) or by mail to the address Mgr. Jaroslav Mosnáček, DrSc., Polymer Institute of the SAS, Dúbravská cesta 9, 845 41 Bratislava. In the case of mailing by post, the documents must be delivered to the organization’s secretariat by the deadline given above. The application and CV must also be sent in PDF format electronically to the address of the chairman of the Management Board of the organization (jaroslav.mosnacek@savba.sk) to make them available for publication on the organization’s website.

List of required documents:

– a signed application, containing a brief concept of the candidate’s work in the organization’s Scientific Board,

– extract from the criminal record not older than 3 months,

– structured CV, containing also information on practice in the managing directly subordinate employees

– documents on education achieved

– list of publication outputs, including industrial property outputs achieved by scientific work

Minimal requirements for internal candidates:

– contract percentage at the PISAS (minimum of 50%),

– integrity,

– full legal capacity,

– 3-years experience with managing at least 3 directly employees either within the organizational structure of the legal entity, or within a research and development project, or a project enhancing research and development infrastructure and

– university education of at least third level or education obtained outside Slovakia, which is equivalent in scope and content to university education of at least third level

Minimal requirements for external member candidates:

– integrity,

– full legal capacity,

– university education of at least third level or education obtained outside Slovakia, which is equivalent in scope and content to university education of at least third level

– university education of at least second level or education obtained outside Slovakia , which is equivalent to the second level education within the framework of accredited study programs obtained in Slovakia.

Important dates:

26.10.2022 election announcement

14.11.2022 submission of candidacy and delivery of candidates’ documents,

16.11.2022 publication of the written idea of the candidates about their work in the Scientific Board,

16.11.2022 publication of the list of eligible voters

21.11.2022 election by eligible voters

Elected members of the administrative board and elected members of the scientific board are elected by authorized voters, who are:

a) employees of a public research institution who

1. have at least a second-level university education or an education obtained abroad that is equivalent in scope and content to at least a second-level university education,

2. perform any of the activities in a public research institution according to § 1 par. 4 a

3. are employed with a public research institution for at least half of the established weekly working hours and

b) students of study programs of the third degree of higher education in the full-time form of study after passing the dissertation exam, who are carrying out the scientific part of the doctoral studies in the relevant public research institution on the basis of a contract according to a special regulation.

If an employee of a public research institution fulfills the conditions according to paragraph 2 at the same time in several public research institutions founded by the same founder, he can only vote in one of them, according to his choice. The employee is obliged to immediately notify the director of each of the affected public research institutions of the facts according to the first sentence.

Election procedure:

1. The election of a member of the Scientific Board of the organization will take place by secret ballot, with authorized voters electing 5 members by circling a maximum of 5 names from the list of candidates and three external members from the list of external candidates. A candidate will be elected if he receives a majority of the votes of the eligible voters present.

2. If the number of candidates who receive the majority of votes of the eligible voters present is higher than the number of seats in the scientific board that are being filled, those candidates who, in the order of the number of votes received, are placed in the place corresponding to the number of seats in the scientific board, are green. which is occupied.

3. If there are several candidates with the same number of votes for the last vacant place, another round will be held in which only these candidates will participate.

4. If all mandates are not filled, another round of elections will take place. In it, no more than double the number of applicants will run for each unfilled mandate in the order of the number of votes received.

5. If the situation according to the first sentence of paragraph 3 or 4 is repeated, the procedure specified in paragraphs 3 or 4 will be repeated. If a member of the scientific board cannot be elected even after three further rounds of election (following the first round), the administrative board will declare that the member the scientific board could not be elected.

Place and time of interviews and election:

– 21.11.2022 at 9:30 a.m. in the meeting room of the PI SAS

In Bratislava, November 2, 2022