Kopitarjeva 1
2000 Maribor
Slovenia
- Arts
- Democracy and community development
- Environment/Sustainable development
- Heritage
- Human rights
- International/Cultural relations
- Youth and education
The main area of work is raising awareness and finding solutions to important social, development and environmental problems. Jasa's field of expertise is in information dissemination and two-way communication through narrative literature, strengthened by high artistic illustration. Jasa cooperates with the most established Slovenian experts in the field of education, writing and art of painting. The transfer media, which Jasa uses for raising knowledge and awareness, is high quality art book.
Jasa is cooperating with more than 500 Slovenian companies, more than 100 Slovenian municipalities, with most important Slovenian Ministries and development institutions as well as with all Slovenian primary schools (451), all kindergartens (402) and high schools (183)– in the last project more than 7700 pupils were involved. These strong national contacts make Jasa not only a reliable partner for achieving high project results, but also guarantee a wide dissemination effect from a low to the top level. Jasa has also cooperated in specific international projects with Croatia, Serbia, Monte Negro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy and Austria through various projects, financed mainly from the National Ministry’s funds.
List of implemented projects:
- Company and Life, project focusing on ethically acceptable behaviour of SMEs
- Soul of Slovenia, project focusing on Slovenian culture and intangible heritage
- Where do you go, Europe? – project focusing on European values
- Being Human is our Job – project focusing on the main moral values that every citizen should have
- Earth has a Heart – project for children about protecting the environment
- Children and Fashion – project on children’s fashion, how it should be understood
- You are my Heart – project for children on human values, respect for others, moral values
List of the most important books:
- CHILDREN AND FASHION (helps children to properly understand what to wear and to resist the
consumerism’s logic - http://www.onezimosvet.si/files/original/46.pdf)
- CLOTHING AND FASHION (the culture of dressing for adults; it accentuates the importance of
aesthetics and functional features of how to dress, at the same time it exposes the manipulative
purpose of fashion -http://www.onezimosvet.si/files/original/124.pdf)
- FREEDOM AT THE EXAM (Is my freedom restricted? Is it limited by your freedom? The book also
contains a Declaration of Children’s Rights -http://www.onezimosvet.si/files/original/120.pdf)
- THE STORY OF THE BOOK (wisdom for children; proven to strengthen reading habits -
http://www.onezimosvet.si/files/original/123.pdf)
- EARTH HAS A HEART (a bookguide of ecology for all generations; created by literati and photo
artists, children and ecology experts - http://www.onezimosvet.si/files/original/118.pdf)
- GENTLE HEART (a dramatic story about a girl Neža who is fair and responsible; she is constantly
knocking on the conscience of classmates and adults and is gradually changing them - this
suggests the possibility of changing the world - http://www.onezimosvet.si/files/original/135.pdf)
- SOUL OF SLOVENIA (beautiful features of the Slovenian nation through literary works of the best
writers: from Primož Trubar and other literary giants as Prešeren, Cankar, Kocbek, Gregorčič,
Kosovel … to a contemporary women-poet Maja Vidmar – and thirty living art painters. The book
is truly a personal card of Slovenia's soul. It is also translated to English by expert literary
translators - http://www.onezimosvet.si/files/original/109.pdf)
Jasa Association's efforts: helping to overcome the stereotypes and misunderstandings in social relations throughout all our regions in the country, building intercultural dialogue and respect of differences. Our main contribute could be preparing a unique multi-lingual book and introducing it through reading activities to the people of Mediterranean.
Our reason to become a member of ALF is to actively inter-connect with a web of equal-thinking people to achieve better and more effective cooperation, to be involved in exchange of good practice and in mutual applications for suitable open tenders.