Sports programmes and providers of the annual sports programme

Funding of sports programmes and sports programme providers

Co-financing is provided on the basis of a call for public tenders. Among the programmes submitted, support is awarded to those that achieve the highest scores according to the prescribed conditions and evaluation criteria.

Sports programmes, under the Sports Act, represent a variety of sporting activities and include:

• Leisure-time physical education for children and young people (under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education)
• Physical education for children and young people with special needs (under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education)
• Extracurricular university sport
• Physical education for children and young people focused on high-quality and top-level sport
• High-quality sport
• Top-level sport
• Sport for persons with disabilities
• Recreational sport and
• Sport for older adults

Each call for public tenders is open to sports programme providers, depending on the individual lots, as defined in the Sports Act. These include:

• Sports clubs and sports federations registered in the Republic of Slovenia
• Sports clubs and sports federations of Slovenians living abroad (Italy, Austria and Hungary)
• Public sports institutes established under this Act
• Legal entities registered to carry out activities in the field of sport in the Republic of Slovenia
• Foundations established for the general benefit of sport, in accordance with the Foundations Act
• Educational institutions implementing officially recognised public programmes
• Local communities
• Sole traders registered to carry out activities in the field of sport in the Republic of Slovenia and
• Private sports workers

The conditions, evaluation criteria, co-financing procedures, contractual arrangements and supervision have all been laid down in the Rules on the criteria for co-financing the annual sports programme at the state level.