The Festival of the Third Age is the largest event for seniors in this part of Europe, established by the Government of Slovenia in 1999 to mark the International Day of Older Persons. In 2024, the Festival celebrates its 23rd anniversary, offering free entry for three days. It has always focused on active aging, enhancing the quality of life for older people, and fostering intergenerational solidarity—reflected in its slogan, "We are all one generation!"

This year, the Festival takes place under the honorary patronage of the President of the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia, Ms. Urška Klakočar Zupančič.

Main topics of the conference:

Integrated primary care
Quality and safety of interprofessional work in primary care
Planetary health and sustainability in primary care
Interprofessional education and training with simulators and other new approaches

The Career Fair MojeDelo.com is the largest and most recognizable career fair in our country, bringing together the most successful Slovenian employers and job seekers in one place; from young individuals still in the process of education to those looking for a new job or career opportunity. The purpose of the event is to help employers find new employees and offer job seekers the opportunity to meet employers who interest them in one place and assist them on the path to a successful career.

Click HERE for the fair program.

The mission of the Slovenian Wine Festival is to present Slovenian and foreign wines and spread the culture of wine drinking. Every year, the festival is visited by restaurateurs, managers in restaurants and hotels, businessmen, journalists, traders, owners of wine shops, winegrowers and winemakers, sommeliers, oenologists, members of winegrowers’ and winemakers’ associations, members of wine fraternities and other (wine) associations, knights of wine, wine queens and wine lovers.

The Slovenian Book Fair is the country’s oldest, largest and most important book-oriented event. With more than 100 exhibitors and at least 300 accompanying events, it is a source of inspiration and wonderful fair experiences. A first-rate programme has also been planned for this year's edition, to be announced shortly.

The currently unstable epidemiological situation is increasingly alarming the fair’s exhibitors, partners and visitors, who are concerned over the rising numbers of COVID-19 cases and the stricter measures expected in the upcoming period. As holding a live fair has now become practically unviable, the organizers have decided to channel their efforts into holding a virtual fair, an online event that will take place in our homes, i.e. in the virtual environment. As a meeting place and a platform for online events, as well as a virtual marketplace for buying books by most Slovenian publishers. Visit the fair on http://www.knjiznisejem.si/, the virtual fair tab provides two options: browsing a virtual catalogue of publishers and their programmes, and the option of buying books, as well as attending, throughout the fair, various accompanying events, talks, appearances, panels, award ceremonies, live broadcasts... on a special YouTube channel. 

Physically apart, but together at heart is the guiding principle of the fair that is so special this year. This is the first time in the fair’s history, a success story spanning 48 years, that the event is not held live. The outcome of the online fair depends solely on its visitors. We can only overcome the crisis together, there’s strength in numbers. This year’s fair continues to abide by the motto: "Pay no entrance fee, buy another book instead!"
 

The all-Slovenian campaign for the promotion of reading, reading literacy and reading culture in Slovenia and beyond its borders is a joint initiative of the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport of the Republic of Slovenia, the National Education Institute, the Ministry of Culture, the Slovenian Book Agency, the Slovenian Institute for Adult Education, the Slovenian Reading Badge Association – ZPMS, Cankarjev dom and the Slovenian Reading Association. The executive producer of the national intersectoral conference on the importance of reading culture and reading literacy, taking place on the International Literacy Day, is the Slovenian Reading Association.

The national intersectoral conference The Value of Reading officially launches the 2020 National Month of Joint Reading (NMSB 2020).
 

The event will be held in Slovenian without translation.

The festival’s Focus is placed on Power Play, i.e. the power struggles among literary and political circles in both personal and public relationships.