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Ministry of Culture

Minister Responsible for Slovenians Abroad, Dr Boštjan Žekš, will temporarily lead the Ministry of Culture

Dr Boštjan Žekš

Dr Boštjan Žekš

 

Boštjan Žekš, Full Member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, was born on 26 June 1940. He graduated in physics at the University of Ljubljana, where he also gained his MSc and PhD in physics. He did research at universities in Germany, the UK and France and was a professor of physics at the University of Recife in Brazil. He was first employed by the Jožef Stefan Institute, the University of Ljubljana and the University of Nova Gorica, where he was also Provost of the University. He regularly went on working visits to the UK, the USA, France, Japan, Malaysia etc. He was a member or president of several scientific and higher education bodies. He has been a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SASA) since 1987 and was its President between 2002 and 2008. He is a top researcher in physics with an extensive and internationally relevant bibliography. He co-authored two international publications (in English), one of which was also translated into Russian and Chinese. Together with a colleague he received the highest distinction for scientific research in Slovenia twice. During his stay abroad he frequently met Slovenian expatriates and discussed their problems. As the President of the SASA he often visited Slovenian societies and attended their events in the neighbouring countries and across the world.

 

 

 

State Secretary

Jožef Školč

Jožef Školč

 

Jožef Školč was born in 1960 in Breginje, Slovenia. He graduated from the Department of International Politology at the Faculty of Sociology, Political Sciences and Journalism, University of Ljubljana. In 1988, he was elected Chairman of the Republican Conference of the League of Socialist Youth of Slovenia (ZSMS), the then youth organisation, which after the first democratic elections became reorganised as the Liberal Democracy of Slovenia political party. Under the leadership of Jožef Školč, the League of Socialist Youth of Slovenia paved the way for a multi-party system, facilitated the operation of non-governmental organisations and applied their initiatives to political life. Through the ZSMS, most of the initiatives of the civil society were adopted, which significantly marked the democratisation of Slovenia.

 

Jožef Školč remained President of Liberal Democracy of Slovenia till 1992, when he was succeeded by Dr Janez Drnovšek. In the same year, he was the first elected deputy of the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia and remained in this position for several terms until 2008. From 1994 to 1996, he served as President of the National Assembly. Between 1997 and 2000, he was Minister of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia. During his term of office, Jožef Školč paid special attention not only to public institutes in the field of culture, but also to non-governmental organisations, the so-called alternative culture, to which he ensured better conditions for operation.

 

 

Organisation

Minister:

dr. Boštjan Žekš  

Phone: + 386 1 369 59 15

fax: +386 1 369 59 02

E-mail: bostjan.zeks[@]gov.si

 

State Secretary:

Jožef Školč

Phone: + 386 1  369 59 89

fax: +386 1 369 59 02

E-mail: jozef.skolc[@]gov.si

 


Minister's Office

Head of the Office:

Petra Ložar

Phone: +386 1 300 58 06

fax: + 386 1 369 59 04

e-mail: petra.lozar1[@]gov.si

 

 

Public Relations:

 

Bojana Leskovar

phone: + 386 1/369 59 90

fax: + 386 1/369 59 04

e-pošta: bojana.leskovar[@]gov.si

 

 

Secretariat-General

 

Secretary-General: Žarko Bogunovič

Phone: + 386 1 369 56 64

Fax: + 386 1 369 59 04

e-mail: zarko.bogunovic[@]gov.si

 


Directorates

Arts Directorate

Phone: +386 1 369 59 48

fax: +386 1 369 59 02

 

by the Minister's authority: Peter Tomaž Dobrila

e-mail: gp.mk[@]gov.si

 

Cultural Heritage Directorate

Phone: +386 1 369 58 57

fax: +386 1 /369 59 02

 

Director-General: Damjana Pečnik

e-mail: damjana.pecnik[@]gov.si

 

Media Directorate

Phone: +386 1 369 59 85

fax: +386 1 369 59 92

 

Direcor general: Vojko Stopar

e-mail: vojko.stopar[@]gov.si

 

Directorate for European Affairs and International Cooperation

Director-General: Sonja Kralj Brvar

e-mail: sonja.kralj-bervar[@]gov.si

 

 

Divisions

 

Division for Minority Cultural Rights and the Development of Cultural Diversity

Phone: +386 1 478 79 44

fax: +386 1 478 79 95

 

Head: Dr Suzana Čurin Radovič

e-mail: suzana.curin-radovic[@]gov.si

 

Division for the Slovene Language

Phone: +386 1 478 79 59,

fax: +386 1 478 79 95

 

Head: Velimir Gjurin

e-mail: velimir.gjurin[@]gov.si

 

Division for European Affairs and International Cooperation

Phone: +386 1 369 59 22,

fax: +386 1 369 59 92

 

 

 

Main Areas of Activity

The activities of the Ministry of Culture relate to the creation, communication and protection of cultural values and media.

 

 

 

Bodies affiliated to the Ministry

Archive of the RS

Zvezdarska 1, 1000 Ljubljana

Phone: + 386 1 241 42 00

Fax: + 386 1 241 42 69

e-mail: ars[@]gov.si

Internet: http://www.arhiv.gov.si/index.php?id=1217&L=1 

 

Director: dr. Dragan Matić

e-mail: dragan.matic[@]gov.si

 

Pursuant to the legislation from 1994, the Archive gained a status of an administrative unit. Its task is statutorily defined as a performance of expert duties that refer to archival and documentary materials that are created by state organisation and by other statutorily defined persons. The Archive performs expert tasks that refer to archival and documentary materials that are created by state organisation and by other statutorily defined persons.

 

 

Culture and Media Inspectorate of the RS

Metelkova 4, 1000 Ljubljana

Phone: + 386 1 400 79 01

e-mail: gp.irskm[@]gov.si

 

Chief inspector: Tamara Javornik

e-mail: tamara.javornik[@]gov.si

 

The Inspectorate oversees implementation of the provisions of the Exercising of the Public Interest for Culture Act (ZUJIK), the Cultural Heritage Protection Act, the Archives and Archives Material Act, the Libraries Act, the Public Use of the Slovene Language Act and the Media Act, as well as implementing and other regulations issued on their basis.