UNESCO has a National Commission in each Member State, comprising eminent members of the intellectual and scientific communities and forming the essential link between those communities and UNESCO, helping each Member States to take maximum advantage of their adhesion to the organisation.

Slovenia joined UNESCO on 27 May 1992 and since that time it has actively participated in educational programmes which have a broader, more basic and global scope providing for lifelong learning and ‘education for all’.

The Associated Schools Project Network (ASP) is active within the framework of the Commission and includes 29 institutions, among them 18 elementary schools and nine secondary schools. The schools take part in international projects and every year a one-week international meeting is held in Piran. A brochure has been published by UNESCO and sent to all the countries.

The Commission is also active in the field of heritage programmes. The Škocjan Caves World Heritage Site, one of the most famous sites in the world for the study of karstic (limestone) phenomena, was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1986. Other Slovene properties submitted on the tentative list include Classic Karst (1994), the Fuzina Hills in Bohinj (1994), the Franja Partisan Hospital (2000) and Idrija on the Mercury Route of the Intercontinental Camino Real (2007).

UNESCO supports the Crossradio multicultural radio station network (http://www.crossradio.org), which includes Radio Študent (RŠ) and Mariborski radio Študent (MARŠ) from Slovenia along with independent radio stations from Banja Luka, Belgrade, Mostar, Novi Sad, Sarajevo, Sombor, Skopje, Zrenjanin, Zurich and Basel. Each week one of these stations contributes a half-hour programme which then is broadcast by all members of the network. The aim of the project is to help reduce distrust and tension between the different cultures in South East Europe, to encourage cultural dialogue and to promote the plurality of media while supporting freedom of expression.