Who we are
The cultural programme and the application with which the City of Ljubljana, supported by the other 25 municipalities of the Ljubljana Urban Region, is competing for the ECOC 2025 title are being planned in close collaboration of urban, regional and national public cultural institutions, non-governmental cultural organizations, amateur cultural societies, cultural and creative industry organizations, freelance artists and other cultural operators.


A coordination of many different fields
The drafting of the programme and application actively involve other institutions, organizations and individuals from fields such as tourism, education, welfare, environmentalism, minority issues, etc.
Candidacy Working Party
Nina Peče Grilc
Dušan Dovč
Simon Kardum
Blaž Peršin
dr. Aljoša Pužar
dr. Uroš Grilc, vodja
dr. Manca G. Renko
Teja Reba, umetniška direktorica
Davor Buinjac
Urška Pleše
Programme Council
Igor Bašin
dr. Andrej Blatnik
dr. Petra Černe Oven
dr. Aleš Črnič
mag. Mateja Demšič
Nevenka Koprivšek
dr. Tanja Roženbergar
Honorary Council
Zoran Janković
dr. Karpo Godina
Tjaša Ficko
Dr. Lučka Kajfež Bogataj
dr. Matjaž Kmecl
prof. Janez Koželj
Marta Kos
Vlado Kreslin
Svetlana Makarovič
dr. Oto Luthar
prof. dr. Igor Papič
dr. Iztok Simoniti
Nejc Smole
dr. Peter Verlič
The preliminary work regarding the candidacy further involves 66 distinguished experts working in nine focus groups.
Focus Group for Citizen Participation and Involvement of Vulnerable Social Groups
Ksenja Perko
Katarina Gorenc
dr. Jure Gombač
Tanja Hodnik
Amir Crnojević
Andreja Repar
Yasmin Vodopivec
Tereza Novak
Marta Gregorčič
Focus Group for Audience Development
Petra Slatinšek
Alma Selimović
Staša Tome
Lili Šturm
Andreja Čeligoj
Urška Jež
Maja Gojkovič
Bjanka Kršmanc


Focus Group for Cultural and Creative Industries
Meta Štular
Aleksandar Peković
mag. Lilijana Madjar
Eva Matjaž
Elena Fajt
Anja Zorko
Zmago Novak
Sandra Hlebš
Nik Drozg
Simona Kneževič Vernon
Focus Group for Public Spaces
Maruša Zorec
Martin Bricelj Baraga
Miloš Kosec
Urška Jurman
Anja Planišček
dr. Matej Nikšič
Simon Kardum
Alenka Korenjak
dr. Matjaž Uršič
Nataša Jazbinšek
Ivan Stanič


Focus Group for Communication
Focus Group for Digital Transformations of Culture
Blaž Peršin
Miha Turšič
Uroš Veber
Filip Dobranič
Željko Gudžulić
Lenart Kučič

