The Slovak Academic Information Agency SAIA, n. o. (Slovenská akademická informačná agentúra) is a non-governmental non-profit organisation implementing programmes and providing services aimed at enhancement of civil society, and assisting in internationalisation of education and research in Slovakia since 1990.
Since 2004, SAIA has been working not only in the field of student and teacher mobility but it started to concentrate also on mobility of researchers from both public and private research organisations. It became a part of the European network of EURAXESS Service Centres, with funding from the European Commission and Ministry of Education.
Currently SAIA runs offices in five university towns (Bratislava, Banská Bystrica, Košice, Nitra, and Žilina) with 22 employees. Overall budget for scholarships and projects in all programmes totalls over 2 million EUR yearly, including operational and other programme costs. Within the respective programmes the selection of scholarship recipients and projects is done by independent gremia and committees, made up of representatives of Slovak universities, the Slovak Academy of Sciences, the Ministry of Education and other organisations from Slovakia and from abroad (e.g., embassies of other countries to Slovakia).
