Veleposlaništvo Republike Slovenije, Sarajevo
Maglajska 4, 71000 Sarajevo
Phone387 33 251 770
CountryBOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in Sarajevo
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Past events
13 Jun 2024
30 Sep 2024
Bosnia and HerzegovinaSarajevoEx-YU Rock Centar Sarajevo
Opening of an exhibition "Slovenian Rock - Slovenski rock". Organised by Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in Sarajevo in honour of Slovenian Statehood Day.
3 Jul 2024
6 Jul 2024
Bosnia and HerzegovinaSarajevoRadićeva 4International Literary Festival Bookstan
Slovenian authors Zoran Predin, Andrej Blatnik, and Dušan Šarotar are participating in the festival with multiple events. Supported by Ministry of Culture and promoted by Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in Sarajevo.
30 May 2024
2 Jun 2024
Bosnia and HerzegovinaSarajevoEurope HouseSarajevo Photography Festival
Members of the Kranj Foto Fest collective will be exhibiting their work, along with a lecture by their director, Fernanda Prado Verčič, and a presentation of a photography book by Matej Sitar. Supported by Cultural Fund of Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs and promoted with cooperation of Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in Sarajevo.
Cultural cooperation
Cultural cooperation between Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina is extensive. The legal basis for cooperation in the field of culture is the Agreement on Cooperation in Culture, Education and Science between the Republic of Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The embassy itself does not have funds available for cultural cooperation between the two countries. Such funds are available through public tenders by the Ministry of Culture, public tenders by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia with s focus on Western Balkans or tenders of the local municipalities.
The embassy promotes applications for the award of scholarships for the study of nationals of Western Balkans in Slovenia run by the Slovene Human Resources Development and Scholarship Fund.
The embassy also promotes public tenders for translations from Slovenian run by the Slovenian Book Agency.
Slovene community
According to the data available, the Slovene community in Bosnia and Herzegovina consists of approximately 5,000 people who are either Slovenes or have Slovene ancestry. The majority of them live in Sarajevo and some are actively involved in one of the ten Slovene associations spread around Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Slovenian language programmes
The lectureship of Slovenian language reopened in 2015 at the University of Sarajevo and is one of the 55 Slovenian lectureships active around the world.
The Ministry of Education, Science and Sport of the Republic of Slovenia organises and finances Slovenian language classes in Sarajevo, Tuzla, Banja Luka, and Prijedor. Every year there is large interest for summer school for Slovenian language in Slovenia, organised by the Centre for Slovene as a Second/Foreign Language.
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