Slovenia - Digital Slovenia 2030
The Strategy for Slovenia's Digital Transformation by 2030 adopted by the Government of the Republic of Slovenia in 2023 is to provide strategic planning for promoting Slovenia's digital transformation in the development period by the year 2030.
The strategy considers the ambitions and principles of the European Union (EU) and is the result of coordination between government representatives, institutions, academics, civil society, and the interested public. It addresses the key areas of Slovenia's digital transformation, building on European strategic documents and focusing on the main challenges of the digital transformation in Slovenia.
The overarching objective of the strategy is to promote the digital transformation of Slovenia in all segments – society, government, local communities, and the economy. The Digital Slovenia 2030 strategy is a strategic document and contains specific measurable indicators in each of the thematic areas.
The priority areas of the Digital Slovenia 2030 strategy are:
- Gigabit infrastructure
- Digital competences and inclusion
- The digital transformation of the economy
- The road to Smart Society 5.0
- Digital public services
- Cybersecurity
Education is a key human right and a driver of economic success, and the education system must be a means to ensure equal opportunities and inclusion for all.
The major objectives under the Digital education pillar are the following:
- To ensure that every citizen has digital rights
- To introduce digital competences into the compulsory curriculum of the school system
- To develop a single training programme for basic digital competences and promoting it accordingly
- To ensure the pedagogical digital competences of all educators
- To improve the digital literacy of the population
- To increase the number of ICT staff
- To reduce the gender gap in ICT
The main tasks to achieve the digital education goals:
- Formal education
- The education system must be a means to ensure equal opportunities for and the inclusion of all and must include the acquisition of digital competences.
- Optional and interest-based content should be promoted that introduces young people to basic ICT skills in an interesting way.
- Measures should be put in place to increase enrolment in and the completion of the tertiary level, and promotion should be stepped up to raise the profile of engineering, especially ICT-related career paths, in society, especially among young people.
- More ICT professionals need to be trained, both in mainstream education and through retraining and reskilling of the workforce, including using micro-credentials, thus the gender gap will be reduced.
- Investment is needed to ensure that educators have comprehensive digital pedagogical competences.
- Non-Formal education
- All those who wish to do so should be able to identify and evaluate the development of their own digital competences.
- Taking into account the programmes already developed in this field, an excellent training programme for basic digital competences should be developed in a unified way and promoted effectively.
- Further training on the digital transformation is needed, which should be attended by all decision-makers or managers.
Strategy Details
Digital Slovenia 2030 has no direct financial implications, as it is a strategic document that guides further development activities and actions in the field of the information society. The financial implications will be defined in the Action Plan in line with the actions set out. The means to achieve the objectives will be provided through the national budget, European cohesion, recovery and resilience funds, cross-border, transnational, or interregional European funds, and funds from other European programmes, e.g. Horizon Europe, DIGITAL, and others.
The Ministry of Digital Transformation is responsible for managing the implementation of the Strategy in cooperation with the stakeholders from governmental sector, industry and academia.
