Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts and its cooperation with Yugoslavian Academies of Sciences and Arts (1938–1992)

Abstract

The paper presents a brief overlook of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts and stance of Slovenian researchers towards Yugoslavian cultural policy. Slovenian scientists defended the independent status of their institutions, including the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and therefore opposed policies that would lead to the unification of Yugoslav institutions. In-depth cooperation between Yugoslav academies began after the Second World War, when the academies had their own research institutes. Initially, the cooperation was financed by the federal government, whereas with introduction of self-management financial burden was placed on academies themselves. In the late 1980s, the social crisis consumed the relations between the academies, which retained only formal contacts that were suspended after the breakup of Yugoslavia