Slovenia

Re-Health project: Intercultural mediation in health care. To assist health workers through intercultural mediation for a better cross-cultural understanding. To assist new comers while integrating into the health system in Slovenia. Analyzing needs and defaults in the Slovenian health system when it comes to the health care access to people who are experiencing a temporal vulnerable situation like Asylum seekers with pending applications. Working on gender equity and women empowerment for self-dependence, self-empowerment and better inclusion. Interactive sessions with non-formal education for capacity building and self-empowerment to relief stress. And for cross-cultural understanding to ease culture shock.
Creativity workshops to promote cross-cultural understanding among students in primary schools in Slovenia.
Integrated poetry workshops. Interactive workshops to stimulate Creative writing and performing inspired by mixing and integrating different poems from Euro-Med Region translated to English.
Seminars and workshops for intercultural learning and dialogue through Art based techniques and non-formal education methods.
Interactive Arabic courses. Teaching Arabic language through non-formal education methods.
Trading olive oil and Zaatar from Jordan and Palestine and other products from neighborhood countries with an innovative promotion that promote cultural aspects of the countries of origin.

(A) PROJECTS
- Studio 6 and No Nails, No Pedestals: exhibitions, discursive projects, installations, performances, video, interdisciplinary projects
- PlatformaSCCA: the publication dedicated to the contemporary art theory and intriguing topics
- Žepna Pocket Edition (in cooperation with Založba /*cf. publishing house)
- Exhibitions and Researches
(B) VIDEO / ARCHIVE
DIVA Station (www.e-arhiv.org/diva) is a physical and web archive of video art which is being developed with the intent to research, document, present and archive video/media art.
- Archiving Practices: research, study exhibitions and educational seminars that thematize the importance of AV archives, their creation, integration and accessibility
- Videodokument: the documentation, archival and research project on video art in Slovenia (1969-1998)
- Videospotting: a series of video programs of relevant Slovene production and its presentation abroad
- Artservis’ Collection is a thematic project on production conditions in culture
- Internet Portfolio: presentations of the selected artists on the Internet
(C) SCHOOL
- World of Art (www.worldofart.org): School for Curators and Critics of Contemporary art
- Library: books, periodicals and catalogues from the field of contemporary arts and new media.
(D) SERVICE:
- Artservis: online information resource (opportunities for funding, co-operation, education)
- Evrokultura: online information resource for Slovene cultural operators (EU programs)
- Arts Link: international exchange programme

Main projects in European Capital of Culture 2012 are contemporary art and comics exhibition, youth programmes. Others are music, ecology, volunteering, non-formal education,...

music (choirs, orchestra) and sports
languages and science
voluntary work
culture

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.