Zoran Stančič
DG INFSO manages over €9 billion for ICT research programmes, under the Framework Programme 7.
Stančič, a 46-year-old Slovenian, is currently Deputy Director General in the Research DG, with responsibility for scientific advances. Prior to joining the Commission in 2004, Stančič was state secretary for science at the Slovenian Ministry of Education, Science and Sport (2000–04), responsible for science policy, fund distribution and international scientific cooperation.
From 1999 to 2000 he was deputy director of the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Reading, Université de Paris I (Sorbonne), the University of Trieste and Boston University.
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