📋 Tender Overview
The Ministry of the Economy, Tourism and Sport has today published a public tender for the selection of contractors and co-financing of the salaries of professionally educated workers in the programs of national industry sports schools for the next four-year period 2024-2028. A total of approximately 9.2 million euros will be available, which is 1.4 million more than in the previous period.
Every four years, the ministry publishes a tender for co-financing the salaries of professionally educated workers who are employed by the national industry sports association and implement programs that are mainly aimed at the physical education of children and youth. These are either aimed at high-quality and top-class sports or at individual and collective sports with sports games in sports branches or disciplines that are on the program of the next winter or annual Olympic Games. This time in the period from March 1, 2024 to February 29, 2028.
With the public tender, we want to continue with the implementation of a high-quality and medium-term program for children and youth, who are focused on high-quality and high-quality sports. The programs are implemented on the basis of the medium-term strategy of the branch sports school and the four-year program of organization and operation of the national branch sports school for each sport branch or discipline.
Minister Matjaž Han emphasizes: "The programs include planned care for young athletes on their way to achieving top results, they improve the quality of work with this sensitive population, as the programs are run by professionally trained staff."
As part of the public tender, the Ministry will co-finance up to 120 salaries of professionally educated workers who are employed by the national industry sports association and implement the mentioned programs. This year, 1,914,333 euros have been provided for the purpose of co-financing the salaries of professionally educated workers in the programs of national industry sports schools, and 2,297,200 euros are planned for 2025. 2,297,200 euros are planned for 2026, 2,297,200 euros for 2027 and 382,867 euros for 2028. The total amount of co-financing for all years is up to EUR 9,188,800. Due to the alignment of coaches' salaries with the increase in salaries in the public sector, we have increased the funds from 7.8 to 9.2 million euros, compared to the previous tender.
Beneficiaries are national sectoral sports federations, which, based on the Minister's decision on determining the number of co-financed professionally educated workers in the programs of national sectoral sports schools for an individual sports sector, are entitled to funds for at least one professionally educated worker.
Beneficiaries can apply for the tender until March 18, 2024 . Applicants print and mail the forms and attachments.
At the ministry, we are aware of the importance of sports and, as Minister Han has said many times, we will continue to strive to provide a stimulating environment and good conditions for the development of Slovenian sports, both with long-term strategic directions and financial incentives: "With a holistic approach in the field of sports, we provide sports for everything. We are allocating 43.13 million euros for the implementation of the sports program in 2024, an additional two million will be contributed by the Ministry of Education, for a total of 45 million euros . It is right to give back to sport what it has been giving us all along. Top sport and achievements are not self-evident, so this kind of support is necessary. In order to be able to continue to compete on a global scale and achieve the best results, of course we also need top coaches who train top athletes. At this point, a big thank you goes to all the coaches and athletes for all their dedication, perseverance, passion and engagement, which has a lot of weight in the fact that Slovenia is always competing with the best."
At the same time, it is also worth recalling the open Public Tender for the selection of providers of the Annual Sports Program in the Republic of Slovenia for the year 2024 worth 14.4 million euros, which we announced last week. With it, we want to increase the share of sports-active adults in professionally managed programs, increase the number of athletes in competitive systems, retain the number of top athletes and increase the visibility of sports as an important social subsystem.
