Bogataj IGS Ch 5 2016 (original) (raw)

Study circles, as a national project, turned out to be a significant development tool in Slovenian rural areas. In this chapter, the authors—a leading Slovenian expert on study circles and the director of an internationally recognized local development centre—illustrate how the combination of study circles and regional development can be an important key in the development of an integral economy. The case of the Alpine region Solčavsko demonstrates how a commitment to nature and tradition as the moral core, and the alignment of the local population under common goals, released the sustainable development potential of an entire region. In this process, the institutionalisation of its development approach in the form of a local development centre, Center Rinka, was crucial. Working together with the Slovenian Citizens’ Initiative for an Integral Green Economy further helped Solčavsko not only to explain its own unique development model but also to share it increasingly with the wider region and society as a whole.

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