Responsible BodyPolicy OverviewMilestones International CooperationMain DocumentsBasic IndicatorsContact PersonsUseful LinksResponsible Body Ministry of Education and Sport (Ministrstvo za šolstvo in šport) Masarykova 16, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia Phone: +386 1 400 5400 Fax: +386 1 400 5329 E-mail: gp.mss@gov.si Web Page: http://www.mss.gov.si/ Organization Chart Policy OverviewSport EducationThe main objectives of the Ministry of Education and Sport in the field of sport education are:to improve the compulsory sports activity and sports education of free choice of the pre-school and schoolchildren, youth and students by improving personnel and material conditions in cooperation with the Ministry responsible for sport;to create a close connection with clubs and associations and national sports associations, which are responsible to carry out the programmes in special sport disciplines. With their responsible cooperation in the system of adequate programmes, which could be called »National Special Sports Schools«, to provide a qualitative sports education of young athletes in line with the internationally comparable aims, standards and principles;to provide a stable co-financing of the programmes for children and youth called »Special Sports Schools«.to implement the status rights of young athletes in accordance with sports, school and other legislation, and with other regulations defining the status of athletes;to improve sports education of children and youth with special needs;to increase the motivation of children and youth for sports with different national campaigns and animation programmes;to provide programmes of prevention against socially pathological deviations together with other government departments.Recreational Sport (Sport for All & Everyone)The main objectives of the Ministry of Education and Sport in the field of recreational sport are:to increase the number of regularly sports active citizens for 5%, and to increase the number of all sports active people for 2%; to improve sports recreational programmes for different target groups respecting sex, age, special needs, the level of knowledge, fitness and the level of motivation; to develop sports health prevention programmes and health improving programmes together with the Ministry of Health and other departments;to follow up and to evaluate the functioning of different organisations offering sports recreational activities;to examine the situation in the personnel of the organisations offering sports recreational activities, and to establish the system of education, qualification, specialisation and promotion of sports experts;to establish a system of information and promotion;to encourage the organisations realising sports programmes to increase the number of sports recreational programmes;to set up a network of sports facilities and sports areas for sports recreational activities.Top SportThe main objectives of the Ministry of Education and Sport in the field of top sport are:to improve the level of success of Slovenian athletes at the international competitions, which can be achieved by considerable financial, material and professional support, and by improving organisation and leadership;to increase the number of top athletes for 5%. Special attention is devoted to:the system of evaluation and classification of sports disciplines,the preparation training and the competitions of those Slovenian athletes and teams, which have feasible chances of achieving high ranked positions at the biggest international sports competitions,the development of conditions to carry out the programmes of top sport (staff, facilities, material conditions of the programme, technology of training process etc.),the enforcement of status rights of athletes in the area of fellowships, education, health insurance provided by the Law on Sport, housing problems, military service and other rights determined in the Law on Sport,the provision of over-standard health insurance of top athletes (quality of services and immediate treatment),the provision of opportunities for professionalisation of athletes and their employment in the state administration, enforcement of the status rights of professional athletes, and employment in sports organisations.Sports FacilitiesThe main objectives of the line Ministry are:to increase the dynamic of sports facilities construction for 10%;to introduce the standardisation of sports facilities and sports equipment;to adopt new standards for school sports facilities;to set up the network of sports facilities and to respect the standards of international and national sports federations;to implement the graded control over the projects and sports-technological examinations based on qualified standards;to determine the ownership of sports facilities;to implement real amortisation and efficient management of the facilities;to revitalise sports facilities.Governing Sports StructuresMilestones 1689 The Slovenian historian Valvasor describes skiing in Slovenia (skiers from the Bloke plateau) 1842 The school of fencing and acrobatics is founded in Ljubljana 1863 The first Slovenian sports organisation - the gymnastics club "Južni Sokol" is founded in Ljubljana. Gymnastics is then introduced into schools in Slovenia within the Austro-Hungarian Empire 1888 First bicycle race in Ljubljana 1894 First skiing competition 1907 The Slovenian Gymnastics (Sokol) Association becomes a member of the International Gymnastics Association 1912 First Slovenian participant and silver medal winner at the Olympic Games - Rudolf Cvetko with the Austrian fencing team 1920 Founding of the Slovenian Olympic Sub-committee as a part of joint Yugoslav National Olympic Committee (NOC) 1922 World Gymnastics Championships held in Ljubljana 1924 Leon Štukelj, gymnast, wins the first Olympic gold medal for Slovenia 1945 Founding of the Sports Association of Slovenia 1948 Stanko BLOUDEK becomes the first and only IOC member from Slovenia 1960 Founding of the Faculty of Sport in Ljubljana 1984 Jure Franko wins the first Slovenian medal at the Winter Olympic Games, a silver in the men's giant slalom 1991 Founding of the Olympic Committee of Slovenia 1992 Recognition of the Slovenian NOC by the IOC 1992 Slovenia recognised by international organisations: Council of Europe, UNESCO 1993 Slovenia becomes a full member of the Council of Europe 1994 Merger of the Slovenian Sports Association and the Olympic Committee of Slovenia to become: the Olympic Committee of Slovenia - Association of Sports Federations 1998 Adoption of the Law on Sport 2000 Adoption of the National Programme of Sport First Gold Medal won for the independent Republic of Slovenia at the Sydney Summer Olympics in Rowing: Iztok Čop and Luka Špik, immediatelly followed by another Gold Medal at the same games won in Shooting by Rajmond Debevec. 2005 After 35 years again the Gold Medal at World Championships in Sports Gymnastics was won in Melbourne by Mitja Petkovšek and Aljaž Pegan.International CooperationMultilateral CooperationCoE - The Council of EuropeOperates within three main cornerstones of modern society: democracy, rule of law and human rights and fundamental freedoms. Main organisation dealing with sport within the CoE is the so called Committee for the Development of Sport Ena (CDDS). Its scope of activities are:implementation of SPRINT programme – help and assistance to new accession countriesSport for All (recreation) under the auspices of European Sports Charter (1992)Fight against violence in line with the European antiviolence Convention (1986)Fight against doping according to the European Antidoping Convention (1989)Alps Adriatic Working Community Besides other areas of activities Slovenia participates with the Alps Adria Working Community also in the area of sport within the Working Group for Sport. The main objective of 17 regions coming from 7 countries (Austria, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia and Switzerland) is to deal with sport of young people from 12 to 20 years of age by organising School Sports Days and above all Winter and Summer Games of the Alps and Adriatic Working Community.ENGSO – The European Non – Governmental Sports OrganisationsWas recognised by the International Olympic Committee on the 12th of December 2001 on the basis of the article 4.5 of the International Olympic Charter. Its priorities are working on the questions of sport for children and young people, equal opportunities for sport for women and disabled, transparent and democratic leadership of sports organisations, voluntary work in sport, and significance of sport in the modern society. EU - The European UnionThe European Union has recognised the social and educational significance of sport and supports the so called European dimension of sport as it is defined in the Nice Declaration (2000) and provided in the new article III/282 on Education, Youth and Sport in the the new European Treaty (2004). Its main area of interest is not top sport or commercial sport, (dealt with the implementation of other EU legislation), but rather traditional values of sport, its social function, social democratic values, integration into society, health, inter-cultural and inter-religious dialogue, and the educational strength that sport has always had in the European territory.UNESCOCooperation with UNESCO is carried out through National UNESCO Office and on the framework of the UNESCO International Charter on Phyical Education and Sport (1992) and the so-called Declaration of Punta del Este adopted at the 3rd Ministers conference in Uruguay, 1999. An important area covers common endeavours of the international community to stop the abuse of doping in sport by way of the UNESCO International Convention against Doping in Sport adopted at the 33rd UESCO General Conference on the 19th September 2005 in Paris. It was drafted before the 2006 Olympic Games, that were held in Turin, in order to provide for governments a legal background to act in line with the international fight against doping in sport managed by World Antidoping Agency (WADA) since its establishment in Switzerland in 1999.Bilateral Cooperation Bilateral cooperation covers in particular relations with neighbouring countries and certain carefully selected EU countries. It involves in particular the adoption of bilateral agreements on cooperation in sport. So far we have managed to sign Bilateral Agreement with Hungary and there are proposal for the bilateral agreements on cooperation in sport with Austria, Croatia and Russian Federation.Main Documents Sport is not included in the Slovenian Constitution. The state has taken responsibility for the development of sport. In the absence of a sport law, sport had been mostly regulated through a recently amended Associations Act. Sport clubs existentially depend on the Associations Act which entered into force in 1995 and was modified in 1999. The main reforms in the Associations Act of 1995 relate to the provisions on the ownership and financing of associations. The Associations Act enables sports and other Associations to do also certain profitable activities from which the income has to be used only for the work of the Associations, maintaining the principle of benefit to the public. Soon after publishing the so called white paper on Slovenian sport outlined in the book “Sport in the Republic of Slovenia - Dilemmas and Perspectives” (1995) Slovenia for the first time in its history adopted its own Law on Sport passed by the parliament in April 1998. The law was followed by the National Programme of Sport adopted by the parliament in early 2000. Slovenia put sport under a unified legislative regulation because of the strong public interest inherent to sport expressed by the state. Zicnice_Zima.pdf Zima_2004-05_Karta_600X4301.pdfBasic Indicators Sports movement in Slovenia Sport Clubs 4,976 Local Sport Federations 89 National Sport Federations 68 Sport Offices 28 Companies 123 All sport organisations 5384 Sport facilities Sport recreation Overview of won medals at big international sports events Public expenditure for sport Revenue of six sports disciplines represent almost half of the total revenue of sports associations Contact Persons Mr. Zoran Verovnik Ministry of Education and Sport Kotnikova 38, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia Phone: +386 1 478 42 51 Fax: +386 1 478 43 25 E-mail: zoran.verovnik@gov.si Web Page: http://www.mszs.si/eng/ Useful LinksMinistry of the EconomySlovenian Tourist BoardStatistical Office of the RSChamber of Commerce, Tourism, Hotels and Restaurants AssociationChamber of CraftsTourism Association of SloveniaNational Tourism AssociationTrade and Investment Promotion AgencyPublic relations and media Office of the RS
The main objectives of the Ministry of Education and Sport in the field of sport education are:
Recreational Sport (Sport for All & Everyone)
The main objectives of the Ministry of Education and Sport in the field of recreational sport are:
Top Sport
The main objectives of the Ministry of Education and Sport in the field of top sport are:
Special attention is devoted to:
Sports Facilities
The main objectives of the line Ministry are:
Governing Sports Structures
Multilateral Cooperation
CoE - The Council of Europe
Operates within three main cornerstones of modern society: democracy, rule of law and human rights and fundamental freedoms. Main organisation dealing with sport within the CoE is the so called Committee for the Development of Sport Ena (CDDS). Its scope of activities are:
Alps Adriatic Working Community
Besides other areas of activities Slovenia participates with the Alps Adria Working Community also in the area of sport within the Working Group for Sport. The main objective of 17 regions coming from 7 countries (Austria, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia and Switzerland) is to deal with sport of young people from 12 to 20 years of age by organising School Sports Days and above all Winter and Summer Games of the Alps and Adriatic Working Community.
ENGSO – The European Non – Governmental Sports Organisations
Was recognised by the International Olympic Committee on the 12th of December 2001 on the basis of the article 4.5 of the International Olympic Charter. Its priorities are working on the questions of sport for children and young people, equal opportunities for sport for women and disabled, transparent and democratic leadership of sports organisations, voluntary work in sport, and significance of sport in the modern society.
EU - The European Union
The European Union has recognised the social and educational significance of sport and supports the so called European dimension of sport as it is defined in the Nice Declaration (2000) and provided in the new article III/282 on Education, Youth and Sport in the the new European Treaty (2004). Its main area of interest is not top sport or commercial sport, (dealt with the implementation of other EU legislation), but rather traditional values of sport, its social function, social democratic values, integration into society, health, inter-cultural and inter-religious dialogue, and the educational strength that sport has always had in the European territory.
UNESCO
Cooperation with UNESCO is carried out through National UNESCO Office and on the framework of the UNESCO International Charter on Phyical Education and Sport (1992) and the so-called Declaration of Punta del Este adopted at the 3rd Ministers conference in Uruguay, 1999. An important area covers common endeavours of the international community to stop the abuse of doping in sport by way of the UNESCO International Convention against Doping in Sport adopted at the 33rd UESCO General Conference on the 19th September 2005 in Paris. It was drafted before the 2006 Olympic Games, that were held in Turin, in order to provide for governments a legal background to act in line with the international fight against doping in sport managed by World Antidoping Agency (WADA) since its establishment in Switzerland in 1999.
Bilateral Cooperation
Bilateral cooperation covers in particular relations with neighbouring countries and certain carefully selected EU countries. It involves in particular the adoption of bilateral agreements on cooperation in sport. So far we have managed to sign Bilateral Agreement with Hungary and there are proposal for the bilateral agreements on cooperation in sport with Austria, Croatia and Russian Federation.