Although it is generally accepted that the growth of the sector will increase exports and create new jobs, there are as yet no specialised funding bodies which can invest in strategic projects and feasibility work in the sector. However, the Ministry of Culture has already introduced a number of funding schemes within its Directorates ,offering support for the cultural industries within individual art fields.

In the field of audiovisual culture the Slovene state allocation for 2005 was € 5.13 million or 3.5 per cent of the national budget for culture. Public tenders for subsidies are administered by the Directorate for Media and the Slovene Film Fund. Slovenia also participates in the community programme for the development of the audiovisual sector Media Plus and is a member of the Council of Europe’s Eurimages European Cinema Support Fund and of the Europa Cinemas network.

In the field of music publishing too, the Ministry of Culture subsidises new publications and audio recordings by top Slovene composers and performers, as well as supporting the publication of scores in co-operation with the Society of Slovene Composers and private publishers. The Ministry's most frequent contractual partner in the publication of non-commercial CDs is the Discography Unit of RTV Ljubljana. The Ministry works to a lesser extent with private publishers. The main criteria for the Ministry to grant subsidies in the area of musical publishing are top quality, notable success and appearance on non-commercial radio and television stations or on international concert stages, Slovene origins and first publication of archive music scores. Special attention is paid to musical reviews and professional publications. It has also become traditional for the Ministry of Culture to subsidise portraits of individual Slovene composers on CD (five each year). Various societies also appear as publishers, this being their supplementary activity. In 2005, the Ministry of Culture subsidised the publication of 38 CDs, 47 scores and two musical journals. The Music Information Centre of Slovenia is a basic information point for access to information on Slovene musicians, music, musical heritage and contemporary activities. The Centre promotes Slovene music to Slovenes and to an international public and provides access to musical material.

The Ministry of Culture also supports activities in the book sector by co-financing programmes and projects. Until 2002 the majority of state aid was devoted to the publishing of books in the fields of literature and humanist studies, non-commercial journals in the areas of art and culture and magazines for the young, plus to a lesser extent projects in the areas of reading culture, promotional projects, literary festivals and international activities. In 2003 the Ministry published its first call for applications for bookstore programme support, specifically programmes in the field of reading culture, promotion of authors and promotion of bookshops. Since that time, in order to apply for this funding, bookstores must offer a variety of literature from the fields of belles-lettres and humanist studies, their trade must be created mainly by the sale of books, and their programmes must focus on the popularisation of reading. This measure has received wide support among the professional public. In 2004 the Ministry also introduced a special budget item to support bookshop networks, and in the period 2004-2006 the priority theme of public calls for tenders and appeals has been ‘developing a reading culture at all age levels’. In this way the Ministry, in co-operation with other ministries, is attempting to encourage a systematic and harmonised approach of all actors which encourages a reading culture and increases the extent of existing programmes. Some new forms of support for the book sector have also been introduced since 2004 within the framework of the National Programme for Culture. One of these is the campaign ‘An Original Slovene Picture Book for Each Newborn’. Via this programme the Ministry pursues two aims: to draw attention to the importance of ‘family reading’ and the importance of the book as an accompaniment of mankind from the cradle onwards; and to provide targeted support to contemporary creativity and the publication of original picture books.