The Agency performs the following tasks:

• selects and finances research and infrastructure programmes that provide a public service in the research field;
• manages young researcher projects and other projects assigned to the Agency as part of the National Research and Development Programme and the annual plan of the ministry responsible for science;
• monitors the usefulness, innovation level, efficiency, quality, competitiveness and professionalism of the work research organisations allocated funding or other incentives;
• monitors and supervises programmes and projects from the first and second points of this list;
• promotes international cooperation and co-financing and implements commitments undertaken within international agreements, memorandum and protocols signed by the Republic of Slovenia;
• manages the databases set out in the Research and Development Act and other regulations;
• ensures the acquisition of additional funding for the National Research and Development Programme;
• evaluate and analyses the implementation of research and development work;
• participates in national research and development policy making;
• collaborates with the Technological development agency and other agencies and organisations;
• in accordance with regulations provides the ministry responsible for science with an annual work plan, financial plans, annual reports and periodic self-assessment reports on the quality of the Agency’s work;
• promotes links between public research institutes and users;
• performs other professional tasks consistent with its founding statute.