The main goal of the initiative is to follow as closely as possible and go beyond the European Commission’s communication “Opening up Education”, which sets out a European agenda for stimulating high-quality, innovative ways of learning and teaching through new technologies and digital content. OpeningupSlovenia is therefore a bottom-up created and top-down supported new and innovative initiative in which Slovenia as a first European member state will attempt to create a unique nationwide research environment in open education. This test-bed comprises of a coalition of all Slovenian universities, compulsory and vocational education institutions with technical, research and industry partners. The objective is to explore means for a fully-fledged open educational system in synergy and parallel with the formal one, develop innovative projects and apply for European Commission and other funds related to ICT and new aspects of open education. The initiative involves 13 participants from industry, academia, research, education and government and was given support by 40 institutions and entities from 18 countries in the SEE region and outside the European Union and has been launched at OCWC Global 2014, which was also organized by OuS members. In the paper we describe an initial and developing strategy, results and plans.
