The Slovenian Business and Research Association (SBRA) is a Brussels-based representation office of several Slovenian organisations from both the public and private sectors. Established in 1999 as an international non-profit association connecting business, research and local communities in Slovenia with the EU institutions and other public and private bodies at EU level. SBRA members represent a wide-spectrum of Slovenian interests, from the fields of business and research. SBRA puts primary focus on issues common to all our members, such as knowledge-based competitiveness defined by the Europe 2020 strategy. Besides directly representing the individual interests of its members, SBRA also represents the interests at a more general level of Slovenian businesses, the research community and municipalities.