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Sport Directorate

The Sport Directorate implements the public interest in sport. It ensures systemic mechanisms, support for sports programmes, conditions for professional work in sport, quality public sports facilities and outdoor sports venues, sporting events and the promotion of sport.

The public interest, objectives and priorities of sports policy have been defined in the strategic document for the development planning of sports policy – the National Programme of Sport in the Republic of Slovenia. Additionally, continuous systemic and material support for sport is ensured under the Sports Act.

The annual sports programme, at the national level, defines the programmes and areas of sport co-financed in a given calendar year as well as the scope of public funds allocated in the state budget for the field of sport. It is one of the key pillars of the Slovenian sports system, ensuring transparent support for various forms of sporting activity.

Policies and Topics

  • Sports programmes and providers of the annual sports programme

    The annual sports programme is the state's key instrument for comprehensive sports development in Slovenia. It increases regular participation in sports among the population, ensures high-quality, professional programme implementation and systematically develops both competitive and top-level sport. The programmes are mainly funded through calls for public tenders, ensuring clear criteria, transparency, equal opportunities and accessibility of sport for all.

  • Sports infrastructure

    The development of professional and recreational sport requires high-quality sports infrastructure – sports facilities and outdoor sports areas.

  • Sporting events, awards, prizes and the promotion of sport

    Sports are promoted through major international events, the Bloudek Awards (the highest state awards in the field of sport), monetary prizes for outstanding achievements, pension supplements for exceptional sporting achievements and the Sports Museum, which preserves and presents Slovenia's sporting heritage.

  • Organisation of sport

    The organisation of sport in Slovenia is based on the European model of sport, which emphasises solidarity, inclusion and fairness. Sport is organised in a pyramid structure – from grassroots to top-level – and, generally, according to the principle of one national sports federation for each individual sport. Important stakeholders in the system also include non-governmental organisations acting in the public interest, the Expert Council of the Republic of Slovenia for Sport, the Planica Institute of Sport of the Republic of Slovenia and the Athletes' Ombudsman.

  • International cooperation in the field of sport

    International cooperation in sport is carried out on the basis of the applicable legislation of the Republic of Slovenia, international legal acts, international conventions and other acts in the field of sport relating to cooperation with Member States of the European Union and third countries. International cooperation in sport takes place at three levels: within international organisations and integrated bodies, at the level of bilateral state cooperation and directly between stakeholders in sport. Sport knows no boundaries; it connects people and bridges distances.

Division

Athletes' Ombudsman

Sport Directorate

Ministry of the Economy, Tourism and Sport

Masarykova cesta 16
1000 Ljubljana

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