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Prime Minister Marjan Šarec visited Slovenian soldiers in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo on Monday and Tuesday.

There is practically no non-governmental organisation in Slovenia that does not include volunteers in its work.

One of the world’s largest international fairs promoting filming locations, FOCUS 2019, was held in London this week.

On 3 December, the anniversary of the birth of poet France Prešeren, Slovenia’s cultural institutions once again opened their doors to the people.

On 3 December 2019, Slovenia’s oldest and largest institution of higher learning – the University of Ljubljana – celebrated its one hundredth birthday.

In taking the PISA literacy test, Slovenian students achieved 507 points on average, which is above the OECD average.

In collaboration with Danish and Chinese colleagues, Slovenian scientists have decoded the genome of the olm, a cave-dwelling animal also known as Proteus anguinus or, more colloquially, as the “human fish”.

God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya, a film by Teona Strugar Mitevska that also involves a Slovenian co-producer, has won the 2019 LUX Film Prize, presented by the European Parliament.

Slovenia’s largest and longest-running publishing event, the Slovenian Book Fair, started at the end of November.

By pressing a large red button at the main offices of the University of Maribor on Wednesday, the prototype HPC RIVR @ UM supercomputer was symbolically booted.

As a green country with a wealth of natural resources and biodiversity, Slovenia is aware of the importance of the fight against climate change.

At the UNESCO General Conference in Paris on Monday it was confirmed that the first global centre for artificial intelligence under the auspices of UNESCO will be located in Ljubljana.

First, some statistics: There were 58 public libraries operating in Slovenia in 2018, which had a total of 273 local branch libraries and 13 mobile libraries.

Slovenia is joining the European Week for Waste Reduction, taking the opportunity to focus even more closely on good practices and on recommendations on how to prevent waste generation in an effective way.

The United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has appointed Slovenian master chef Ana Roš as ambassador of gastronomic tourism.

Slovenia is one of the safest countries in the world for travellers, faring very well in all three key indicators - security, medical risks and road safety, shows a risk world map for 2020 released by the SOS International NGO.

On Friday we celebrate Slovenian Food Day, which will once again be accompanied by a traditional Slovenian breakfast.

Slovenia celebrates its national sign language day on 14 November.

Katja Grünfeld and Iva Ramuš Cvetkovič, law students at the University of Ljubljana, competed in Washington against more than a hundred teams from all corners of the globe, and won their lawsuit on behalf of a hypothetical state for the unlawful appropriation of a lunar base. It sounds like science fiction, but this will be one of the most important areas of law in the future.

A Slovenian delegation led by the foreign minister, Miro Cerar, has appeared for the third time before the Human Rights Council’s universal periodic review in Geneva to present the country’s human rights progress over the last five years.