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Veleposlaništvo Republike Slovenije, Rim
Via Leonardo Pisano 10, IT-00197 Roma
Phone39 06 8091 4310
CountryITALY
Iztok Mirošič, Ambassador
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The Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Rome was opened in 1992 as an official representative body of the Slovene Government to the Republic of Italy. It provides consular assistance and promotes bilateral political, economic and cultural relations between Slovenia and neighboring Italy. The Slovenian Embassy in Rome is also accredited for San Marino, Malta, Tunisia and Libya.

Other diplomatic representatives of the Republic of Slovenia in Italy include Consulate General of the Republic of Slovenia Trst/Trieste and Consulate of the Republic of Slovenia Milano. The Embassy and consulates also represent interests of the relatively large Slovenian minority in Italy.


Cultural cooperation

The legal basis for cooperation in the field of culture is the Yugoslav Agreement on cooperation in Culture signed in 1960 and ratified in 1992 by the Government of the Republic of Slovenia. The programmes of cultural cooperation between Slovenian and Italian governments are signed for multiannual periods, the last one for the period 2010 – 2013. A number of agreements related to Slovenian minority in Italy and the Italian minority in Slovenia.


Film

Slovenian cinematography is frequently represented at the MedFilm Festival, a Rome venue devoted to presentation of the Mediterranean cinema. In 2012 the Embassy in Rome and Slovenian Film Centre were one of the partners of festival’s 18th edition and Slovenia one of the focus countries with films by Metod Pevec (Aleksandrinke [The Alexandrinians]), Jan Cvitkovič (Archeo), Damjan Kozole (Dolge počitnince [The Long Vacations]), Nejc Gazvoda (Izlet [A Trip]), Igor Šterk (9:06), Klemen Dvornik (Kruha in iger [Bread & Circuses]). At the MedFilm 2012 an award for the opus was bestowed to Damjan Kozole who was present at the festival together with Jan Cvitkovič.

In the framework of the FrancoFilm 2013 at Institut français - Centre Saint-Louis in Rome, Slovenia was represented by Nejc Gazvoda’s awarded film Izlet [Trip], a portrait of the so-called lost generation. Film’s trademark is also its soundtrack, composed by the band New Wave Syria.

Literature and arts

The Embassy in Rome supports and helps to present works of Slovenian authors translated into Italian. In 2008 Embassy co-financed the translation of a book on Janez Vajkard Valvasor, a Slovene polihistor from 17th Century, a fellow of the Royal Society in London, into Italian language.

In October 2012 the ECampus University Rome hosted Renata Salecl, Slovene philosopher, sociologist and legal theorist, a senior researcher at the Institute of Criminology, Faculty of Law at the University of Ljubljana on the occasion of the presentation of her internationally acknowledged book Izbira [Choice]. The edition in Italian was published by Laterza Publishing House.

In 2010 the Embassy collaborated with the Gallery Via Giulia 95 in Rome on a conference, where Tadej Pogačar, a winner of the Rihard Jakopič Award, participated with his opus.

In the framework of Maribor, European Capital of Culture 2012 the presentation and potentials of the cultural capital were promoted, one of most prominent events was the exhibition 100 Year City within Venice Architecture Biennale at the A+A Gallery.

In 2012 a theater play Medea’s Scream by Jurcer, Inner World Theatre Production Company was presented at the Vassello Theater in Rome.

Heritage and education

The Embassy promotes Slovene-Italian cooperation also in the field of humanities: a group of researchers from Slovenia, Italy and Germany conducted a project Campi Fascisti with an aim of archiving common heritage of the Second World War concentration camps.

In March 2013 Embassy coorganised a study excursion programme for a group of students from the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana. The programme included a visit to Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Italian Society for International Organizations (SIOI).

The Slovenian Language Section at the Sapienza University in Rome cooperates with the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia on numerous small-scale projects and presentations of Slovene language and culture (Days of Slovenian Documentary Film in 2012).

The Embassy occasionally disseminates information about scholarships and research grants for study in Slovenia or Italy. The Government Office for Slovenians Abroad offers an award for student work on the topic of Slovenian diaspora, including the one in Italy.

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