Slovenia

Ljudska univerza Velenje is a non-profit public institution providing adult education.
It takes an active part in regional community by improving the education structure of the population, by motivating and informing the members of the community and by involving them in the educational programmes. We place much emphasis on improving the knowledge of languages and ICT skills of adults from the local area. At the moment there are 12 full-time employees and 130 contract staff working at the Ljudska univerza Velenje.

Years of tradition, the provision of expert knowledge and quality and friendly attitude towards our participants without doubt contribute to the fact that each school year more than 3.500 participants take part in various educational programmes.

In the school year 2006/2007 we organised 167 different programmes and carried out more than 32.000 lessons altogether. Mostly visited programmes were the programmes for gaining education, followed by statutory programmes and language and ICT courses.
All programmes are intended for adults (primary school for adults, programmes for vocational secondary education, professional secondary education, technical-vocational education, professional post-secondary education, language courses and ICT courses for adults and teenagers, training programmes for special labour requirements, study courses, leisure programmes, the national and international projects, …).

We must mention our well developed cooperation with numerous national and international partners, which is the key to achieve higher degree of educational and cultural level of the population. This is an important priority of the Europe.
That is why we as partners have taken part in various national and European projects since 1999. We were the first in Slovenia who received the award E-quality label for the project The new opportunity.