After its acceptance into the European Union in 2004, Slovenia has become attractive to a variety of immigrant groups, including families with children. However, initial integration efforts were limited, with Slovenia’s relevant institutions only having made a serious effort to integrate immigrant children into Slovenian society over the last decade. In practice however, despite established theoretical foundation, there is a discrepancy between the needs of immigrant children and what is being offered to them by the Slovenian education system. The paper examines the baseline assumptions for tackling the issue of integration of immigrant pupils, paying special attention to public tenders and implemented projects in the framework of public tenders related to the integration of immigrant pupils, and advocates the thesis that the state is poorly absorbing the financial resources from the European Social Fund. The use of the method of theoretical research offers a holistic approach to the understanding of the problem of absorption of funds, which could provide additional financial resources for solving integration issues. © 2018, Pedagoska Obzorja d.o.o. All rights reserved.

Immigrant pupils Public tenders Integration

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