The Development Centre of the Heart of Slovenia is an organisation which has been leading, co-ordinating and connecting development projects of the area since 2000. The team of the Development Centre of the Heart of Slovenia, in cooperation with numerous local, regional, national and European partners, realizes projects to enhance the life quality of people in the region. The members of the team are younger but experienced and excellently interconnected professionals for individual fields of development. They are included into international partnership network with almost 200 organisations from more than 30 countries. The team of the Development Centre of the Heart of Slovenia at its work considers the needs of the local environment all the time. To realize this, it organizes, leads and coordinates networks, like the network of communities and municipalities, the network of tourist bidders, network of kindergartens and schools, the network of farmers, the network of craftsmen, the network of entrepreneurs. By operating in network it has been increasing competences of local bidders of various products and services, as well as their power of self-organizing. Development Centre of the Heart of Slovenia has so far participated at 23 international projects being run in the following programmes: Interreg IIIB Alpine Space: project RegioMarket Alpine Space: project CO2-NeuTrAlp Central Europe: projects Listen to the voice of villages, Cultural Capital Counts Lifelong Learning: projects Aktos, AcTour MED: projects CYCLO, Remida, Wider South East Europe: project FaRInn Interreg IVC: projects DANTE, IN-EUR, INN.O.V.Age, LOCFOOD, RITS-net, Young SME's Europe for Citizens: project LAGs4EU Swiss Contribution: project Local products Intelligent Energy Europe: project Poly-Sump Horizon 2020: project EUth And other programmes, e.g. bilateral cooperation Read more about the main development projects we have implemented so far in the References section.