Slovenia

Every season, the SNT Nova Gorica prepares 6 stage premieres and the least 2 co- productions (almost half of its performances are given touring in Slovenia and abroad). At times the Theatre also organizes various theatre festivals with international participation and performances from abroad.
The SNT Nova Gorica is also the founder of NETA (New European Theatre Action), which joins the efforts and results in the field of stage arts by means of theatre exchange and festival cooperation. The seat of the general secretariat of NETA which unites 15 theatres or festivals from 9 countries is also in SNT Nova Gorica.

- Dissemination and developing of voluntary work in Slovenia,
- Projects for asylum seekers and refugees (psychosocial assistance, advocacy, learning assistance, organising of events …),
- Projects for separated children (guardianship, learning assistance, organising of activities, advocacy …),
- Advocacy for migrant workers,
- Programs tailored to young migrant integration,
- Film festival: On the road,
- Training and education activities for volunteers and experts,
- Health centre for people without health insurance,
- Voluntary work in hospitals,
- Promotion of sexual and reproductive health,
- Global education and development cooperation.

SUUW is very active and will continue to put even more stress on research and campaigns on fight against violence upon educated women, equal pay for equal work, promoting better educational and employment opportunities for young graduate women, we organize cultural and artistic programs tailored to young women and girls with socio-economic difficulties as well as groups of migrant women, women as well as young women with disadvantaged background and who are coming from conflict zones. Since 1997 we’ve been also working towards reconciliation of family life and professional obligations of women. SUUW was the first national affiliation to come out with this project which is now very much in focus of all women’s organizations. SUUW has been implementing actions that foster social rights and commitment of youth, girls in particular. We collaborated in a project Revealed Hands, run by Slovenian design group OLOOP which focused on capacity building workshops. This collaboration stimulated my interest in working with vulnerable groups. Revealed hands was created jointly with a group of immigrant women from ex-Yugoslavia, living in Jesenice, Slovenia. Women came to Slovenia due to various life stories, coincidences and their country situations. They were united through a passion for textile handicraft, financial independence and socializing outside the family environment. The main objectives were to create intercultural connections, educate through textile manual work, socialize and generate textile group of women in Jesenice. I worked as advisor on human rights issues and the entire process demanded a lot of patience as well as carefully selected mindful and tolerance practices as we worked with vulnerable groups. From 2013 until 2015 we were partner in Grundtvig funded project with 4 other European partners on Domestic Violence met by Educated Women at my organisation SUUW. We co-organised and facilitated a conference on domestic violence held at the Faculty of Theology in Ljubljana in November 2014. On 11 April 2012 we coordinated an international colloquium “Women holding leading positions in Higher Education in Slovenia: Overcoming barriers – real or imagined”, held at the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Ljubljana. We also collaborate in the area of women entrepreneurship and a few years ago we conducted reseach on the impact of crisis on young women graduates in cooperation with META - Association for Women Entrepreneurship; and on the relation of domestic violence and employability of young women. In 2016-2017 we were partner in the international project EUbyCITIZENS, run by Maison de l’Europe de Paris. In 2018 we were partner in MANGO project - Management of Non Governmental Organisations, run by the United societies of Balkans from Thessaloniki. In 2020 we are part of “D’ING - Designing for our Learning // From complexity to simplicity” project, run by Stiftung »Europäische Jugendbildungs-und Jugendbegegnungsstätte Weimar«. We are currently waiting for results of two aplications: Fostering awareness of skills for entrepreneurship of young women (F.A.S.E.) coordinator Academia Studio Italia (Erasmus plus project) and I (don’t) see you – towards stronger representation of women and under-represented groups in leadership, institutions, and media , coordinator CGE Erfurt e.V. (CERV program).

The association increasingly produces contemporary public programmes in literature. With a wide array of programmes, it represents the most active organisation and the main centre of literary activity in Slovenia. Its projects and activities include: the Vilenica International Literary Festival, the Trubar Foundation which supports translations of Slovene authors, the fair Slovene Book Days, literary readings etc. It presents literary awards and prizes.
The Vilenica festival, the major international event of the SWA is a gathering of poets, prose writers, dramatists and essayists. Since the first festival in1986, the climax of the event has been the presentation of the Vilenica Prize.

Main Slovenian NGO projects are mainly implemented in the following regions:
- Countries in which Slovene NGDOs have the highest presence
- Western Balkans
- The Caucasus
- Africa (Burkina Faso, Burundi, Ghana, Kenya, Congo, Mali, Madagascar, Rwanda, Senegal, Uganda, Zambia, etc.)
Sloga main activities are:
- Information service
- Cooperation with political decision-makers
- Organising events
- Global learning
- Project counselling for NGOs
- Development library
- NGDO networking
- Promoting development cooperation
Sloga member NGOs are mainly active in the following area:
- Gender equality and empowerment of women
- Climate changes and implications for countries in development
- Inter-generational cooperation with focus to Africa
- Sustainable development and global learning
- Monitoring the efficiency of official development aid
- Policies of various African countries
- European neighbourly policies
- Peaceful conflict solution
- other development challenges.

Our activities can be devided in four main categories:
1. Project related activities
2. International conferences
3. Small scale events (e. g. round tables, seminars, open discussions with guest speakers etc.)
4. Publishing
Our activities are described in details on our main website www.panevropa.si and project website www.euforeignpolicy.eu.

Two annual colloquia.
In September 2006 the Society will organize the III Mediterranean Congress for Aesthetics.

Our main activities are: child sponsorship, fair trade, responsible tourism and global education. Child sponsorship: supporting a child (in Africa or Slovenia) to complete his/her education, but some of the money also goes towards community projects. Fair trade: we work directly with producers in Africa, run fair trade awareness raising activities in Slovenia and are one of the founders of fair trade shop in Slovenia. Responsible tourism: we work with our partners in Burkina Faso and Slovenia, and do awareness raising activities. Global education (including intercultural dialogue): aims to empower people with a better understanding of global problems and provide knowledge, skills, values and attitudes we need as citizens of the world, to cope with global challenges. We do workshops in schools, organize teacher trainings and training of trainers, public events, seminars, conferences and develop pedagogical materials. We also run a library House of the Worlds with books on global education.