Motovila Institute, hosting Creative Europe Desk Slovenia, has produced the series called Creative Europe Stories. The aim is to promote the Creative Europe EU programme as well as highlighting successful initiatives developed by Slovenian organisations in cooperation with their European partners.
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Cona, an institute for contemporary art processing, connects contemporary art with ecology and spaces. Concerts, sound walks, and reflections take place at traditional partner venues as well as in parks, gardens, and other outdoor spaces, where the importance of respectfully integrating the living beings and landscape of those places is emphasized. Audiences are invited to engage in deep listening, sound exploration, and a unique narrative language.
For 36 years, the Ljubljana International Film Festival (LIFFe) has been bringing the most acclaimed works of world cinema to Ljubljana—from award winners at Cannes, Berlin, Venice, and Locarno to bold newcomers just entering the film scene. The festival is also a space where local creators encounter global trends, and dialogue becomes part of the cinematic experience.
The International Centre of Graphic Arts (MGLC) is an artistic, educational, residential, and leisure centre that enriches the lives of all generations with its intertwining of heritage, contemporary art, and nature. The MGLC is also a specialized museum for print art with extensive international collections and an important producer of graphic art, which is created in the MGLC Graphic Studio.
Center Rog is a modern manufacturing space designed for anyone who enjoys creating. Nine production laboratories, which form the heart of the center, provide a space for learning and using both traditional and modern digital technologies.
Kersnikova Institute is a non-profit and non-governmental cultural organisation. Due to its strong programme focus marked on the maps of the most interesting international centres dealing with contemporary investigative arts, science and cuttingedge technologies. In the video story, Simon Gmajner explains that participation in European projects has had a significant impact on the networking with scientific research institutions such as CERN or the European Space Agency, or has opened doors for them to collaborate in other sectors such as the economy.
Malinc Publishing House implements and participates in six Creative Europe projects. In this video story, Barbara Pregel explains what Creative Europe funding and international cooperation mean to the publishing house. The latter focuses on young people’s literature, targeting more the Spanish market, smaller literatures and smaller languages, while promoting and encouraging reading for all generations.
Kino Šiška is Slovenia’s leading institution in the field of contemporary concerts, complemented by visual and performing arts programmes. Since its foundation in 2009, Kino Šiška has been participating in European projects that have enabled it to establish today’s important international festivals such as the Co-festival in the field of contemporary dance, the MENT music festival or the Tinta festival in the field of comics. The participation in the Liveurope platform allows many local creators and producers to gain valuable experience and knowledge.
Green edition of Creative Europe stories is focusing on good practices for (more) sustainable international (co)operation and mobility in culture. Watch Creative Europe Story
Druga godba is one of the most important (music) festivals in Central Europe, unique for its concept, new approaches and “discovery” of unknown musical themes and geographical territories. Together with their partners, they are working to reform the music sector through the international Footprints project. The aim is to help all music sector players to establish themselves in the European music market and to consolidate the European creative music community around the values of social, economic and environmental responsibility.
Projekt Atol is a hub for research arts, transdisciplinary production of artistic projects, tactical media, situation building, publishing, education, community platforms, production and communication infrastructure, and scientific and technological research.
The Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia (UIRS) is the central Slovenian research organization in the field of spatial planning and related disciplines.
Nosorogi Institute was founded in 2008 by colleagues that studied film directing in Ljubljana, and in the same year received support for the production of two medium-length documentary films.
In a joint project led by Radio Slovenia, nine partner organisations from eight European countries are exploring how our cognitive, emotional and personal development is influenced by auditory stimuli, and what sound means to people and the world around us. The B-AIR project aims to create sound art for babies, toddlers and vulnerable groups on an artistic online radio channel supported by innovative technology.






Representatives of Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Koroška (SI), Dance Identity (AT), Croatian Cultural Center – HKD (HR) and Pro Progressione (HU) shared their experiences on different aspects of participation in Creative Europe projects, in particular on working with partners and developing relationships with audiences. The inevitable topic of discussion was also the covid-19, which has affected the organisation and delivery of (international) cultural events in 2020 and 2021. Further info about the Creative Synergy that took place on May 14, 2021,
Iriduim Film: Narrating stories
KUD Sodobnost: Raising literally awareness
Pionirski dom: Nourishing social skills
Bunker: Create to connect
Aksioma – Zavod za sodobne umetnosti: Creating opportunities
Zavod Otok: Creating communities
School of Arts University of Nova Gorica: Fostering synergies
Slovene Animated Film Association (DSAF): Building a network