Excerpt from Health-promoting schools: a resource for developing indicators, (2006) Schools for Health Europe, Amsterdam
Vesna Pucelj Development of a national programme for self-evaluation of health-promoting schools in Slovenia pp 146-148
The Slovenian Network of Health Promoting Schools has existed since 1993. Currently 130 schools are involved in the project (100 elementary schools, 25 secondary schools and 5 secondary boarding schools). The purpose of the healthpromoting
schools approach in Slovenia is to transfer experiences and examples of good practice from health-promoting schools to every school in the country.The aims of this project were:
• to discover the opportunities for including health promotion in the school environment;
• to determine the effectiveness of the project in specific schools of the Slovenian Network of Health Promoting Schools;
• to discover how well the schools included are acquainted with health promotion concepts;
• to acknowledge the participation of students; and
• to set indicators of effectiveness of the health-promoting schools project.

Excerpt of a Case Study from Better schools through health: learning from practice Third European Conference on Health Promoting Schools, held in Vilnius, Lithuania, 15–17 June 2009
Mojca Bevc Stankovič SETTING APPROACH THROUGH THE SLOVENIAN NETWORK OF HEALTH PROMOTING SCHOOLS pp 30-32
Slovenia was among the first countries that joined the European Network of Health Promoting Schools. The Slovenian Network of Health Promoting Schools (SNHPS) has been operating since 1993, when twelve pilot schools joined the network. In 1998
the number of member institutions grew to 130, which then represented 25% of all Slovenian schools. In the school year 2008/09 all Slovene schools were invited to join the network. 268 institutions, of which 212 are primary schools, 49 are secondary schools and 7 are student residencies, are now members of SNHPS. So, 43% of all Slovenian primary and secondary schools are now members of the national network. Evaluation of planned activities over the last years show that schools have made efforts in the areas of mental health, diversification of learning, physical activity, addiction, healthy eating, etc. Evaluation also highlighted the most important elements crucial to the effectiveness of our work. These elements are:
support of the project by headmasters; inner-motivation of members of school project team; team work and support of the national team. Leaders from school project teams emphasised systematic planning, evaluation of good projects and working on interpersonal relations between pupils, teachers and parents as
the most important topic for schools.