Sport Development and Programmes Division

With the aim of co-financing programme and development tasks and ensuring appropriate and high-quality sports infrastructure, we:

• Prepare and implement calls for public tenders and select providers of the annual sports programme in the Republic of Slovenia;
• Carry out tasks related to the selection and co-financing of the construction, renovation and maintenance of sports facilities and outdoor sports venues;
• Co-finance substantive projects funded by the European Social Fund;
• Support the development of high-quality professionally trained and educated staff in sport and
• Co-finance the salaries of professionally educated staff, contributing to ensuring high-quality sports education for children and young people focused on high-quality and top-level sport.

In addition, we participate in the preparation of key strategic documents, legislation and secondary legislation in the field of sport.

We also carry out activities aimed at promoting Slovenian sport. These include:

• Supporting the organisation of major international sporting events 
• Organising and awarding the highest national honours of the Republic of Slovenia in the field of sport, namely the Bloudek Awards
• Paying out financial awards for outstanding achievements by athletes and their coaches and
• Supporting the operation of the Sports Museum

In the field of administrative and legal procedures, we provide services relating to:

• Keeping official registers of: 
  • Professional athletes 
  • Private sports workers
  • Professionally educated and professionally qualified staff in sport
  • Publicly recognised training programmes; and
  • Public sports facilities and outdoor sports venues 
• Processing applications for pension supplements for work and exceptional achievements in the field of sport and
• Granting the status of non-governmental organisations acting in the public interest in the field of sport

At the same time, we provide support to advisory, executive and expert bodies in the field of sport, namely the Expert Council of the Republic of Slovenia for Sport, the Planica Institute of Sport of the Republic of Slovenia, the Commission for the Accreditation of Training Programmes in the Field of Sport and the Athletes' Ombudsman.

Finally, we also actively participate in international cooperation in sport, both in the preparation and implementation of legislative and strategic documents of the European Union and other international organisations as well as within the framework of bilateral cooperation with neighbouring and other European and non-European countries. We also participate in the activities of the Cross-Border Sports Coordination Body.