Seminar, organized by the Portuguese Ministry of Education, took place from 18 to 21 January 2000 in Costa da Caparica, Portugal.

The Slovene delegation, comprised of representatives of the Ministry of Education and Sport and the Employment Service of Slovenia, presented the systems of education and training in Slovenia, as well as measures for preventing and alleviating social exclusion of groups of young people at risk (drop-outs, refugees, Romas, secondary-school students with special needs). Programme 5000, Project learning for young people and other active employment policy programmes are used in Slovenia to help young people upon entering the labour market.

With the Programme 5000, the state enables the unemployed to obtain professional and vocational education to enhance their employment opportunities. The basic objectives of the programme are to raise the educational level of unemployed people and reduce structural occupational discrepancies on the labour market. The programme started in the 1998/99 academic year, meaning that 1999 was its second year. Within this programme unemployed people can attend publicly accredited programmes in order to attain formal education at various levels, from primary school for adults to university courses. In the 1998/99 academic year the programme included adult education programmes (USO programmes: bussines secretary, bookkeeper and office clerk courses) which were no longer carried out in the 1999/2000 academic year as they are no longer valid. The programme Project learning for young people, developed by the Centre for Adult Education, provides young people with the opportunity to develop personally and socially, and train to enter education again.