Primož Šporar

Britof 469
4000 Kranj
Slovenia
tel.  + 386 41 684 182
e-mail: primoz.sporar@pic.si
           

 

 

CURICULUM VITAE

1. PERSONAL

Marital status:   married, two children
Nationality:       Slovene
Age:                 35
Born:                December 15, 1971
Place of birth:    Ljubljana, Slovenia

 

2. EDUCATION

Attorney at law

High school for computer science, Ljubljana, finished in 1991
Law Faculty in Ljubljana (Ljubljana University) finished in 1997,  (specialization Civil Law, Family Law - Adoption)
Exams: Law State Exams, 2001; Exam in the field of social protection, 2004;
Master Degree: finishing the Master Degree at Ljubljana Law Faculty 

Language: Slovene, Croatian, English, German, Computer language (Visual basic, C)
Driving licence

3. WORK EXPERIENCE

DZS, Ljubljana,1990
Commerce import export, Ljubljana, 1991
Senate CD, Ljubljana, 1995
Safe Invest, Ljubljana, 1997

Legal and Information Center for Non Governmental organizations, 1996
Head of the office January 1998,
Executive Director, September 1998

Mediator, 2004 (app. 400 hours of finished training programs)
Asylum seekers counselor, 2007
Children advocate, 2007

Mediation skills:

• Finished 100 hour training basic program, 1999

• Finished 40 hours program within the Center for Europe – exchange program with organisations from UK and Ireland, 2000

• Finished 100 hour familly mediation process, Slovenia, 2000

•  “Mediaton process”, 16 hour, Ireland mediation Institute (Geoffrey Corry) , Law faculty in Ljubljana, 2001

• “Conflict resolution in Community – How do I use the knowledge and skills I already have?”, 16 hours, Peace Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2001

• “Local Government – Non Governmental Organisations Co-operation”, Training of trainers, 32 hours, Partners for Democratic Change, ZDA, Budapest, 2001

•  “Familly mediation”, 16 hours, Institut fur Mediation, Munchen, Germany, Ljubljana, 2002

• “Fifth International Conference of New or Restored Democracies”, 4 ure, ICSF, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (workshops on ADR and mediation, 2003

• “European Forum On Acess to Justice”, 4 ure, Budapest, Hungary, (mediation as a part of access to justice), 2005

• Training program “Mediation within organisation”, 50 hours, Ljubljana, Inmedio in Bundesverband mediation Germany, 2006

• DG Justice project “Mediators without borders”, www.cb-mediation.eu , 300 hours, 2006-2008

Member of the European Economic and Social Committee – EESC, 2006-2010

4. OTHER WORKING AREAS

Working fields: coordinator for legal counseling (human rights, family law, social and labour law, environmental law, NGO status law, humanitarian law) and mediation development.

Fields: Free Legal Aid project, Conscientious objection to military service, Status and financing of the NGOs, Do you know your rights project, Sexual Harassment, Gender Equality, Children's ombudsman, Roma's rights, NGO and networking;

5. PROJECTS, PUBLICATIONS, ARTICLES

• Projects

Co-worker in the working groups:

• changes of the Labor Law (Sexual Harassment at the working place), 1998
• Advocacy and Mental Health Act, 1998
• Changes of Asylum law and Law on foreigners, 1999
• Law on equal opportunities, 1999
• Alternative Dispute Resolution and Free Legal Aid Act, 1999
• Children's Ombudsman Act, 2000
• Public Benefit NGOs Act, 2000
• Conscientious objection to military service Act, 2000
• Act on co-operation of the Ministry for Ecology and Environment and NGOs, 2000
• creation of the Slovenian NGO center, 2000-2001
• establishment of Trade Union for NGO employees, 2001

• Law on NGOs and public benefit, 2002-2003, (co-author)
• Law on public participation in the preparation of the legislation, PIC, 2001-2003
• Changes of the Law on the environment, REC, 2002
• Program “Inclusion of the NGOs into the preparation of the Single Programming Documents - EU”, REC, CNVOS, Agencija za regionalni razvoj, 2002-2003
• Workshops “Co-operation between NGOs and local communities in the field of gender equality”, Government office for equal opportunities, Koper, Bled, Murska Sobota, September, October 2003
• Slovenian Compact between NGOs and Government, legal environment, 2004
• Analysis of the legal framework for the work of the NGOs in Slovenia, (SVEZ, Ministrstvo za šolstvo, Ministrstvo za notranje zadeve), 2004-2006
• Establishment of the community foundations, Trust for the civil society in Central and Eastern Europe, 2004
• CIVICUS Civil Society Index, 2005
• Mirror to the Government, Umanotera, 2006
• US AID NGO Sustainabilty Index, 2003-2007
• Cross Border Mediation, 2006

• Books (co-author)

• Free legal aid in Slovenia, 1998
• Non-governmental European Union, 1999
• Women’s victims of violence, 1999
• NGOs in Slovenia, report, 2000
• Law guide for young people, 2001
• Home lawyer, 2001
• Report on the NGO situation in Slovenia, 2003
• “Open government – fostering dialogue with civil society”, OECD, 2003
• Talks about the future of Slovenia, President of the Republic of Slovenia, 2003
• Public institutions in collaboration with civil organisations, Active Citizenship Network, Italy, 2004
• Community foundations, REC, Umanotera, 2005

• Newspapers

Refugee Times, VOX, Editor-in-Chief, 2001
Sector – NGO magazine, member of the editorial board, CNVOS, 2003

6. PARTICIPATION AND MEMBERSHIP

• Organizer or co-organizer

• International Round Table “Refugees and their rights in Slovenia”, Slovenia, March 1999
• International Conference “Networking for Slovenian NGOS”, Slovenia, October 1999
• International Conference “European Social Charter”, Slovenia, November 1999
• International conference “Advocacy”, Ljubljana, May 1999
• Round table “Under regulation”, Ljubljana, June 1999
• International Conference “Suicide”, Ljubljana, May 2000
• Round table “NGOs in Slovenia and Europe”, Ljubljana, September 2000
• Seminar “Alternative dispute resolution - mediation and conciliation”, Ireland Mediation Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia, November 2000
• Workshop  “NGOs and EU Fundraising”, Euro Citizens Action Service - ECAS, Koper, Slovenia, April 2001
• Training programme  “Familly mediation”, PIC, Ljubljana, Slovenia, April – June 2001
• 1st  Slovenian yearly NGO forum, Ljubljana, October 2002
• 1st Slovenian Mediation  Days, PIC and Planet GV, Bundesverband Mediation, Inmedio, DMS, Concordia, Portorož, June 2007

• Participant

• Human rights training program, Canadian Human Rights Foundation, Montreal, Canada, June 1997
• International Conference COLPI, Budapest, Hungary, September 1998
• International working group, Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, Warszava, Poland, January 1998
• International Round Table “Sexual Harassment”, Rijeka, Croatia, December 1998
• International conference CEAVA “NGOs and Council of Europe”, Kishniev, Moldova, June 1999
• International conference, COLPI, “Anticorruption programs”, Budapest, Hungary, June 1999
• International Conference, CEAVA, "NGOs and Council of Europe Programs", Strasbourg, France, September 1999
• International Conference “NGO world summit”, Seoul, S. Korea, , October 1999
• International meeting Vienna Platform, Brussels, Belgium, march 2000
• Law education program – Alternative Dispute Resolution and Free Legal Aid, London, England, Dublin, Ireland, April 2000
• NGO Millennium Summit, United Nations, New York, USA, May 2000
• International Conference “Sustainability of the Third Sector in central and Eastern Europe”, Budapest, Hungary, September 2000
• International conference “Associations and Emerging Europe”, European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium, February 2001
•  “European Union Visitors Program - EUVP” participant, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium, February 2001
• International Conference “NGO – Government partnerships”, International Center for Not-for-Profit Law, Opatija, Croatia, April 2001
• International Conference “European Union Development Policies”, TRIALOG, Vienna, Austria April 2001 (participation form only)
• International Conference “NGO Forum”,  Goteborg, Sweden, May 2001
• International Workshop ““NGOs and EU Fundraising”, Euro Citizens Action Service - ECAS, Goteborg, Sweden, May 2001
• International Seminar  “NGOs and Public Administration Partnership”, IMO, Zagreb, Croatia, June 2001
• International teaching teachers program “NGO – Government Co-operation”, Partners for democratic change – USA, Budapest, Hungary, June 2001
• International conference CIVICUS 2001, CIVICUS, Vancouver, Canada, August 2001
• International training program »NGO collaboration«, TRIALOG, Vienna, Austria, September 2001
• International seminar »EU Good governance«, ECAS, Brussels, Belgium, October 2001
• “Tax legislation regarding NGOs”, ICNL, Budapest, Hungary, January 2002
• “Family mediation”, PIC in Institute fur Mediation, Munchen, Germany, Ljubljana, February 2002
• “New European Challenges for Croation NGOs”, IMO and Friedrich Naumann Stiftung, Zagreb, Croatia, March 2002
• 4. International Conference IFIAS “EU-Enlargement – An opportunity not to miss”, European Parliament, IFIAS in Vienna Platform, Brussels, Belgium, April 2002
• Conference “Building Open Government in South Eastern Europe: Information, Consultation and Public Participation”, OECD, Ljubljana, June 2002
• Conference “Never without the associations: which civil dialogue in an enlarged Europe?”, CEDAG, Brussels, Belgium, November 2002
• Dani udruga, Vladni ured za udruge, Zagreb, Croatia, February 2003
• “Freedom of Information in South East Europe”, Article 19, Zagreb, Croatia, March 2003
• 2nd Annual Trust Partners Meeting, Trust for Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe, Liberec, Czech Republic, May 2003
• “EU enlargement and NGOs in CEE”, ICNL, Prague, Czech Republic, May 2003
• “Capacity Building Workshop for the United Nations Informal NGO Regional Network”, UN-NG-IRENE, Bucharest, Romania, May 2003
• “Fifth International Conference of New or Restored Democracies”, ICSF, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, September 2003
• “CIVICUS CIVIL SOCIETY INDEX Conference”, Johannesburg, South Africa, September 2003
• CIVICUS World Assembly 2004, Gaborone, Botswana, March 2004
• COMPACT between Scottish Executive and Voluntary Sector”, study tour, Edinburgh, Scotland, May 2004
•  “European Forum On Access to Justice”, Budapest, Hungary, February 2005
• “1. General Assembly Citizens Advice International”, Brussels, Belgium, April 2005
• “ABC Acquis – European Forum of Citizens Advice Services”, Brussels, Belgium, April 2005
• 50 hours mediation program “Mediation in/between Organisations”, Inmedio and Bundesverband Mediation, 2006
• “Sixth International Conference of New or Restored Democracies”, ICSFD, Doha, Quatar, October 2006
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• Local conferences, round tables etc.

• Membership

• Amnesty International, 2000
• Human Rights Internet member, 2001
• Mountain Wilderness, 2002
• CIPRA Slovenia, 2004
• Member and president of the board of the Center of NGOs Slovenia - CNVOS, 2001
• Member of the Council for the problems related to violence on women with the Ministry of labor, 2001
• Member of the Government inter-sector group for Human rights, 2001
• Member of the National committee on Human rights learning, (with the Government Office for education), 2001
• Member of the coalition for gender equality in public life, 2001
• Member and the establisher of the PIC Mediators Club, 2001
• Member of the ACCESS Committee, 2001
• Initiator and member of the CNVOS project field “Tax legislation regarding the NGOs”,  2001
• Initiator and member of the CNVOS project field “Non Governmental European Union”, 2001
• Initiator and member of the Network of private institutes, 2002
• Initiator and member of the Network NGO Coordination (KMNVO), 2002
• Member of the EU-Slovenia Joint Consultative Committee, 2002
• Member of the Forum on the EU future, 2002
• Co-initiator of the “NGO development strategy in Slovenia”, ŠENT, Umanotera, CNVOS, PIC, 2002
• Member observer of the European Economic and Social Committee EESC, 2003-2004
• Member of the NGO – Slovenian Government negotiation group for the preparation of the agreement on collaboration, 2003
• Member of the President of the Republic of Slovenia forum on the future of Slovenia, 2003
• Member of the program committee for the 2. Slovenian Festival of the NGOs, 2003
• Member of the Initiative for the NGO future, 2003
• Member of the Group for the co-operation between NGOs and Government, 2003
• Member of the initiative group for the establishment of community foundations, 2005
• Member of the European Economic and Social Commitee – EESC, mandate 2006 – 2010
• Member of the Association of Slovenian mediators, 2006

• In the procedure to obtain membership in the Bundesverband Mediation Germany, 2007

Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2007
Primož Šporar