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On Friday, October 18, 2024, Cohesion Day 2024 was held in Brdo pri Kranje, organized by the Ministry of Public Administration.
The working meeting, which represents the first in a series of annual meetings of project managers, representatives of the Office for Projects and European Funds (SPES) and professional colleagues of the Ministry, was intended to exchange experiences, good practices, as well as challenges that employees face during implementation and realization project activities financed from the Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRP) and European Cohesion Policy Programs (ECP), which is the main investment policy of the European Union.
At the beginning, the head of the Department for Projects and European Funds, Jelena Tabakovi?, addressed everyone present, who presented an overview of the current situation and announced future activities aimed at the pursuit of project goals and efficient use of funds. She also highlighted the adopted and published Procedures for the implementation and monitoring of the European Cohesion Policy 2021-2027, which - as part of the established system within the Ministry of Public Administration - defines the procedures for the implementation of the cohesion policy at the Ministry of Public Administration.
The working meeting was followed by presentations of 4 active projects financed from the Recovery and Resilience Plan , which are currently being implemented at the Ministry of Public Administration. These are: Strengthening the digital knowledge and skills of civil servants; Establishing a competence center, improving the energy efficiency of state-owned buildings with the help of energy management (pilot project) and energy rehabilitation of business premises at Vojkova 1A and 1B in Ljubljana.
Peter Novoseelec from the Administrative Academy presented the project Strengthening digital knowledge and skills of civil servants (DIGIKOMP); which is financed by the Republic of Slovenia, the Ministry of Public Administration, and the European Union - NextGenerationEU from the Mechanism for Recovery and Resilience as part of the investment Modernization of the Digital Environment of Public Administration . With the aforementioned project, the upgrade of the digital skills of employees in the field of fundamental groups of digital knowledge and skills, including special knowledge, is encouraged through various trainings for civil servants, which are free of registration fees (interactive workshops, seminars, e-training); and thus also the digital transformation of Slovenia, taking into account also the facilitation of the career development of IT specialists.
Breda Gruden from the Directorate for the Public Sector presented the activities of the reform The establishment of a competence center / Center for the development of personnel and raising the qualifications of employees in the state administration, where the main goal of the reform is to improve the management of human resources in the public administration. The latter is being pursued by two milestones, namely the proposal for an amendment to the Public Servants Act (ZJU-1), which pursues the basic goal of a more efficient, flexible and simpler civil service system, while at the same time additionally strengthening the professionalism and independence of public servants. The second part of the milestone of the aforementioned reform is represented by the prepared HR Management Strategy in the State Administration until 2030 - " The key to a better administration lies in people", which introduces new innovative approaches in the field of employee management, which bring about a shift from the traditional handling of personnel resources to behavior that focuses on the personal, professional and career development of civil servants of all generations and in this way trains and motivates them for the challenges and situations of the future. With the adoption of ZJU-1 and the Strategy, the basis for a modern and efficient system of handling human resources in the state administration will be established, which will contribute to the improvement of the competences of civil servants, their career development and training, and consequently the provision of quality public services.
Damjan Knific from the Directorate for Real Assets presented the activities of four separate projects that are implemented at the Directorate and are co-financed by NOO funds. The project Improving the energy efficiency of state-owned buildings with the help of energy management, which as a pilot project is one of the investments within the Modernization of the Digital Environment of the Public Administration, is being implemented for the second year, and so far a pilot platform for collecting, storing and processing data has been established . At the same time, the project of comprehensive energy rehabilitation of buildings at Vojkova 1A and Vojkova 1B in Ljubljana is underway. In addition to the comprehensive energy renovation of the two buildings, the static renovation will also be co-financed from the NOO funds, while part of the interior renovation will be financed from its own funds. The project to establish a charging infrastructure for official electric vehicles of centralized state bodies is in the initial phase. What all four projects have in common is that they are activities or measures in the direction of a green transition. The goal of project implementation is more economical use of energy, reduction of consumed energy, and consequently reduction of direct and indirect emissions of greenhouse gases.
In the continuation of the working meeting, presentations of projects financed from European cohesion funds followed.
