[The "Young Researchers" project--the effect on scientific research and educational potential in Slovenia]

The aims and the development of the "Young Researchers" project, financed and headed by the "Research Association of Slovenia", have been described in this article. The goal of this project is to obtain new personnel resources for scientific research and developmental functions with a substantial expansion of personnel potential in research activity; a proportion of the 2000 young researchers is supposed to take part in the project by the end of 1990. They will renew the advisory personnel (researchers for renovation), and the other part, together with a defined number of already qualified researchers from research and university organizations, should be involved directly in immediate development and new production (researchers for development). The authors pointed to employment problems of new resources of young researchers (problems of administrative nature), as well as problems of qualification, and those of financial nature which appeared gradually during the implementation of the project. The actual project status has been presented after four years of its implementation, and the success of the project up to now, has been evaluated in terms of the project in general, and in medical science especially.