In September 2003, The Faculty of Administration published the first issue of Uprava/Administration, an international journal. The readers of the journal are students, public sector employees and the wider public in Slovenia and abroad. Since 2007, the journal has been included in the EGPA database (the European Group of Public Administration). We expect that it will be possible to include it in other international databases, too.

The Uprava/Administration journal should become the leading Slovene interdisciplinary scientific periodical for administration studies. A field as wide and as professionally diverse as administration studies provides plenty of opportunity for identifying theoretical and practical issues and finding solutions to them. The public administration system in Slovenia has undergone enormous changes in recent years, however, reforms are not completed yet. The Slovene public administration should become an administration a modern, democratic European country needs. That is why it is essential that experts have a decisive influence on its development, which includes publishing articles in the journal.

It is encouraging that along with the established experts from the field of administration students, young researchers and graduates contribute to the Uprava/Administration journal. Articles by foreign authors dealing with current theoretical issues or practical solutions in their countries are particularly valuable. All of this should lead to a more professional, better organised, more efficient, and above all, internationally comparable administration in Slovenia.