PRESENTATION The Educational Research Institute (ERI) is the central research institution in Slovenia for research in education undertaking basic research, development and applied projects on issues of current interest in all sectors of education and related areas. HISTORY The Educational Research Institute was established in 1965 by the Government of the Republic of Slovenia, as an institute devoted to the study of education. From 1970 the ERI was associated with the University of Ljubljana until the 1995 when, with an act of the Government of Slovenia, ERI obtained the status of the public research institution and thus became an independent research institute. ERI is a founding member of the European Educational Research Association (EERA). AIMS / GOALS The Institute performs its activities in the context of the national research programme as a public service. The Institute also performs activities for other clients, to the extent and in the manner determined by the programme of development and the annual plan. In connection with current research, the main activities of the Institute are additionally: - linking with related domestic and international institutions, - meeting the status, staff and infrastructural conditions for inclusion in permanent networks of international educational research (OECD, IEA studies, Council of Europe, etc.), - training and post-graduate education of researchers, consultation and the dissemination of the results of research work, - directing research into fields which are strategically important for Slovenia, - organisation of seminars, professional meetings and international conferences, - co-operation of the associates of the Institute in graduate and post-graduate pedagogic work, - inclusion in international research activities, - Educational research programme (1999-).