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Subjects on teaching multilingual classes and intercultural education or those that integrate references to intercultural education are part of curricula for education of teachers on university level.

At the same time there are training courses on intercultural education and intercultural dialogue, teaching multilingual classes, teaching classes with Roma pupils, teaching students with minority background etc., offered by various institutions, mostly universities and institutes. It is done within regular practice of the Ministry of Education to form an annual catalogue of all mid-career training courses for teachers; the courses included in the catalogue provide to teachers opportunity to advance their skills and knowledge, but also to gain promotion in their employment system.

Outside both regular university education and training courses provided on the basis of the catalogue compiled annually by the Ministry of Education, there are number of courses, seminars, conferences and projects in Slovenia within schools or run by research or non-governmental organisations to target schools and teachers in their efforts to improve capacities for education of  children and young people with minority (especially Roma) and migrant background. Many of them have been developed within the EU funded initiatives.

Sources:

MIPEX 2010, Report on Slovenia, http://www.mipex.eu/slovenia. Date of access: 14.1.2012.

Project on intercultural relations in education and active citizenship 2010-2011, run by the Institute for Research in Education and Research Institute of the Academy of Science and Arts, http://http://www.medkulturni-odnosi.si/. Date of access: 14.1.2012.

The Catalogue of training courses for teachers in the school year 2011/12, Ministry of Education, http://lim1.mss.edus.si/katis/reporti/katalog/KATALOG1112.PDF. Date of access: 14.1.2012.