(Ne)omejene mo?nosti geografije na projektnem trgu?! // (Un)limited opportunities for geography on the project market

摘要

Namen tega prispevka je podati refleksijo o aktualnem dogajanju in polo?aju geografije v kontekstu sodobnega kompetitivnega financiranja znanosti. Spra?ujem se, kako se geografija kot kompleksno in interdisciplinarno podro?je ume??a v slovenski ter ?ir?e evropski sistem znanosti in kako v njem deluje s posebnim ozirom na projektno financiranje. Vsak raziskovalec zna na to vpra?anje odgovoriti intuitivno, v prispevku pa posku?am svoja razmi?ljanja o polo?aju geografije – sicer brez ambicije po sistemati?nosti in celostnosti – podkrepiti z nekaterimi podatki. Naslanjam se na prosto dostopne podatke Javne agencije za raziskovalno dejavnost Republike Slovenije in informacijskega sistema SICRIS. V ?elji po konkretnosti mestoma izpostavljam raziskovalno skupino Geografskega in?tituta Antona Melika Znanstvenoraziskovalnega centra Slovenske akademije znanosti in umetnosti. Sklepni ugotovitvi sta, da so mo?nosti za geografijo zaradi njene interdisciplinarne narave ?tevilne ter da evropski projekti niso pomembni le v finan?nem smislu, temve? tudi z vidika mre?enja in internacionalizacije znanosti. This article offers a reflection on geography’s current activity and position in the context of today’s competitive funding of research. It asks how geography, as a complex and interdisciplinary field, fits into the Slovenian and broader European research system, and how it operates in this system with special attention to project funding. Every researcher knows how to respond to this question intuitively, and this article supports the author’s thoughts on geography’s position with certain information, without striving for systematicity or comprehensiveness. It relies on freely available information from the Slovenian Research Agency and the SICRIS information system. In an effort to provide a concrete example, the article highlights the research group at the Anton Melik Geographical Institute of Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. The concluding findings are that there are many opportunities for geography because of its interdisciplinary nature, and that EU projects are important not only in the financial sense but also from the perspective of networking and the internationalization of research.