On 26-27 October, the SAA together with two of its members, AIPA in Slovenia and ZAPA in Poland, welcomed participants from 10 countries in Belgrade, Serbia to a Regional Seminar on Audiovisual Authors' Rights in Central and Eastern Europe. 

Slovenia ranks 12th on the European Gender Equality Index, it performs particularly well in terms of access to financial resources and has recently progressed in participation in decision making. On the other hand, the audiovisual sector does not seem to progress in the same pace.

You may know that on 1 July, Slovenia took over the Presidency of the Council of the EU. However, did you know that Slovenia is the home of 90,000 beekeepers, the oldest known musical instrument (a 60,000 years old ‘Neanderthal Flute’) and AIPA, the collective management organisation of authors, performers, and producers of audiovisual works of Slovenia.