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Background• Established January 1, 2001• 110 employees• Private company, owned by

– Norwegian Government 80 %– Sintef 10 %– Norwegian Computing Centre 10%

• Evaluated December 2004• Parliamentary decision 2005: Simula may receive a

contract until 2015, if the evaluation in 2009 is favourable

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What differentiates Simula from universities?

• Ownership & management• Culture • Innovation• Stronger focus on research• Research is directed towards practical

applications• Large, focused projects• Different procedures for employment• 75 % of researchers spend more than

80 % of their time on research

Simula cultivates full-time researchers

”Simula combines the universities’

focus on basic research featuring a large

basic subsidy with the research institutions’

management model.”

Arvid Hallén, CEO, Norges forskningsråd

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Simula Research Laboratory ASBasic research, education and innovation

Basic Research:

Software engineering

Scientific computing

Networks and distributed systems

Education:

Simula School of Research and Innovation AS

Innovation:

Simula Innovation AS

Kalkulo AS

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Total budget (MNOK)

  2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 20062007

(estimate)

Basic funding 20 44.4 48.5 49.0 49.0 49.0 49,0 ( = 8.21 mill $)

External sources

 1,5 7,0 9,8 17,8 20,8 43,9

( = 7.28 mill $)

Total funding 20 45,9 55,5 58,8 66,8 69,8 92,9( = 15.41 mill $)

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Simula’s scientific production Journal papers Conference papers Books (incl. edited) Year Pub. Acc. Sub. Pub. Acc. Sub. Pub. Acc. Sub. 2007 13 14 4 4 22 3 1 1 2006 34 8 6 66 2 1 8 2005 21 2 58 2 2004 24 1 36 1 2003 18 47 3

More than 100 MSc candidates

Appproximately 30 PhD candidates

Simula School of Research and Innovation- at the University of Oslo

Why?

What?

How?

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Evaluation of national ICT-research, 2002:– “There is very little, if any, organized education program offered as part of

the PhD education, and students are not admitted to formally organized schools or programs.”

– “One way to improve the situation would be to allocate special funds to support Research Schools promoting PhD education in selected areas”

Evaluation of Simula, 2004:– Low ratio between PhD students and senior staff

– The Evaluation Committee recommends that the production of PhD candidates should be doubled

– Simula should raise its postgraduate student targets and seek additional resources for this purpose

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Dimensions of the Simula School

Yearly cost pr person (mnok) [1]

Number Yearly cost(mnok)

Trainee 0,5 15 7,5

PhD 0,6 45 27

Post doc 0,7 10 7

Senior staff 1,0 5 5

Administration 0,7 3 2,1

Total 48,6

[1] According to the Research Council of Norway the cost is 0,6 og 0,7 mnok for PhD and post doc respectively.The cost for senior staff is related to average salary for professors at Ifi, University of Oslo.

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Content of the Simula SchoolPost doc 3 years

PhD 3 years including visit abroad

Research trainee 1 year including industrial expirience

Master degreeResearch trainee:

–6 months at Simula–6 months with an industrial partner

PhD candidate:–Qualification: Master degree and one year as a trainee–Research experience from international partner, at least 3 months –3 supervisors: From Simula and 2 partners–The degree will be awarded by the University of Oslo, and the university’s regulations will apply in full

Posdoc candidate:–Qualifying for academic position, Research management, mentor program

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Åpner forskerfabrikk (desember 2006)

Forskningsselskapet Simula sender en lissepasning til kunnskapsministeren:

- Gi oss 30 millioner, så starter vi egen skole for å klekke ut slike IKT-forskere

som næringslivet og myndighetene roper på.

AVLER FORSKERE:

Målet med forskerskolen

er å øke antallet IKT-forskere

på høyt nivå, noe både

næringslivet og myndighetene

ønsker, sier adm. direktør Aslak Tveito

og assisterende direktør Kristin Vinje

ved Simula. ( Foto: AFTENPOSTEN )

Simula School of Research and Innovation- at the University of Oslo

The Simula School was founded on the 8th of May in 2007 as a limited company by:

Simula Research Laboratory AS - 5574 shares (56 %)

Norsk Hydro Produksjon AS - 2142 shares (21 %)

Bærum Kommune - 1428 shares (14 %)

Telenor Communication II - 714 shares (7 %)

SINTEF Holding AS - 71 shares (1 %)

Norsk Regnesentral AS - 71 shares (1 %)

Share capital: NOK 1 000 000

Total earned equity: NOK 3 655 600

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External income: 3 mnok in total earned equity 5 mnok from the Ministry of Research and Education (2007)22 mnok in operating revenues over a period of 4 years

Agreement with StatoilHydro:18 mnok in the period of 2007-2010 for education within geological

and geophysical calculations

Agreement with Bærum kommune:1 mnok pr year in 4 years

Telenor, to be discussed:1-2 candidates pr year

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• QUALITY

• RELEVANCE

• THROUGHPUT

• TIME

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• Innovation• International exchange• Collaboration with industry• Research Managment• Role of supervisor• Mentoring• Collaboration with high schools

The main objective is to educate research scientists at PhD-level

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Scientific Computing

Cardiac Computing

(forward/inverse)

Computational

Geosciences

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“Journal of Systems and Software" has ranked Prof. Magne Jørgensen at Simula as the best software engineering researcher in the world. 4000 other researchers were evaluated in the study. Simula was ranked as the third best institution world wide”

Aftenposten 30.09.07