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Ministrstvo za kulturo
Maistrova 10, SI-1000 Ljubljana
Phone386 (0) 1 369 5900
Boštjan Žekš, Acting Minister
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Tasks

It is the task of the Ministry of Culture to provide suitable opportunities for cultural creation and the protection of the cultural heritage. To this end, the Ministry works on the basis of the three main principles of cultural policy: quality, accessibility, and diversity. Undoubtedly the first task of the Ministry is to provide suitable opportunities for top-level creativity in cultural spheres. Equally important is the guaranteeing of the greatest possible accessibility of cultural assets, since the right to culture ranks among fundamental human rights. Closely connected to these two principles is the attention that the Ministry of Culture devotes to cultural diversity. Additionally, the Ministry protects the right to freedom of expression in the media and ensures the media pluralism.

Background

The Ministry of Culture was founded in June 1991 on the basis of the Organisation and Competence of the Republic Administration Act. Under this Act, the existing Republic Secretariat for Culture continued its work as the Ministry of Culture and took over its functions and staff. The existing Republic Secretary for Culture became the Minister for Culture. After Slovenia's proclamation of independence, the Republic of Slovenia gained its first Minister for Culture on 28 June 1991, the day the Act entered into force.

Funding

Where funding of public institutions is concerned, there are special calls for archive institutions and libraries, for movable cultural heritage institutions (mostly museums), for unmovable cultural heritage projects (investments in infrastructure) and for audio-visual programmes. All public state cultural institutions are required to present their following year's programmes to the Ministry of Culture, which then decides on their annual subsidy according to the annual budget.

For non-governmental organisations, the Ministry announces (usually in Autumn) a call for public cultural programmes and projects. From amongst applicants in various disciplines 42 cultural programme organisers and producers were selected to sign 4-year contracts for the period 2010–2013, most of them professional support organisations or the producers running a venue or festival platforms. In addition there is a bid for the 4-year author projects and an annual bid for artistic projects in all art disciplines, which is open also to smaller organisations and individual artists. Another call covers vocational training organised by NGOs.

There are also some additional special public calls related to international co-operation. One is open to creators to bid for short-term residency in apartments owned by the Ministry in New York City, Berlin, London and since 2011 also in Paris. Another determines the operator of the EU Cultural Contact Point Slovenia, the Mediadesk.si and the info hub of the Balkan Incentive Fund for Culture (BIFC). Other calls are for the organisers/curators of the Venice Biennale and Venice Biennale of Architecture, or for Slovene galleries to participate in significant international artfairs.

Every year there is also a special call for cultural activities by the Italian and Hungarian ethnic minorities, the Romany community and other ethnic minority groups and immigrants in the Republic of Slovenia.

Funding related to literature and publishing has been performed by the Slovenian Book Agency, while the national cultural programme in the sphere of film is implemented by the Slovenian Film Centre.

Survey the Economic Contribution of the Copyright-Based Industries in Slovenia

In 2010 the Ministry of Culture together with the Slovenian Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) funded a Survey the Economic Contribution of the Copyright-Based Industries in Slovenia. The study is based on the WIPO methodology and has been available online since 2011. The survey offers a complex comparative quantitative analysis of the contribution of specific sectors based on the statistics from 2002 and 2007. It reveals that the copyright-based industries contribute 5.1 % to GDP and secure 6.8 % jobs on the national level.

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