Targeted research project
Project promoter: Institute for Ethnic Studies Ljubljana
Project performers: SLORI- Slovene Research institute, Science and research centre Koper, Institute for Ethnic Studies Ljubljana
Project implementation period: 2004-2006
The project is a wide interdisciplinary and multiinstitutional research work in the field of humanistic studies and sociology. The main project’s goal is the implementation of a global strategy of the RS for the creation and the development of a common Slovene cultural space after the adhesion of Slovenia to the European Union.
In this light the following aspects were taken into account:
• different processes of European integration
• the European geographic-territorial, legal, political, cultural and economic framework
• the globalization of the economic and cultural relations and processes
• the conditions of the mobile, multicultural information society.
Culture is a very wide, dynamic and open system of mutual communication and fertilization, but also competition and clashing. For all the European peoples and nations it is a great value; the conservation and the development of culture is one of the major strategic goals for everyone. The concept of a common Slovene cultural space has already a rich and long history, but because of actual international (but also internal, Slovene) conditions it was only partially created. The adhesion of Slovenia to the EU is radically changing the developmental conditions of a common Slovene cultural space.
In the project framework Slori has prepared a report on Slovenes in Italy, living in three Provinces (Trieste, Gorizia and Udine), contemplating the following chapters: structural analysis of the territory, description of the historical context, technical infrastructure, social infrastructure and definition of the organizations, education in Slovene language in Italy, social net, natural heritage, cultural, material and immaterial heritage, nucleus of strength, weak zones, economy, cross-border cooperation, examples of good practices.