The Slovenian Lifelong Learning Week is the most prominent promotional campaign in the field of education and learning in Slovenia. Partners in this complex performance have taken the challenge of raising public awareness of the omnipresence and importance of learning - in all life-periods and for all roles one assumes as an individual or member of a family, workplace or society as a whole. All partners engaged in the creation of the LLW project - either as LLW providers/coordinators or as visitors to events - contribute to the realisation of the slogan ‘Slovenia, a learning country'. Further more, through the learning festival we support the implementation of strategic documents concerning the development of education and training systems in Europe.

LLW indicators for the period 1996-2016 depend on the annual response rate which varies throughout the years. Nevertheless, values have been more or less rising, especially in the first six years. The plateau which followed, called attention to the importance of assuring sound financing at the state level. Foundations for this were laid in the National Adult Education Master Plan (2004-2010 and 2013-2020) and have been implemented via Annual Adult Education Programs.

The Slovenian Lifelong Learning Week is a member of the international learning festivals' (IntALW) movement which has been coordinated by the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) in Hamburg, Germany. Nowadays, the movement embraces more than 40 learning festivals throughout the world, whereas in 1996, LLW was among the first six learning festivals and the very first one to promote the culture of lifelong learning (the majority of other festivals carry the name Adult Learners' Week - ALW and primarily, they address the respective target group of adult learners).