The aim of the Regional dossiers series is to provide a concise description of European minority languages in education. Aspects that are addressed include features of the education system, recent educational policies, main actors, legal arrangements and support structures, as well as quantitative aspects such as the number of schools, teachers, pupils, and financial investments. Every Regional dossier begins with an introduction about the region concerned, followed by six sections that each deals with a specific level of the education system (e.g. primary education). Sections eight and nine cover the main lines of research into education of the concerned minority language, the prospects for the minority language in general and for education in particular. The tenth section gives a summary of statistics. Lists of regulations, publications and useful addresses concerning the minority language, are given at the end of the dossier. This dossier discusses Slovene, a fully developed and functionally diverse modern South Slavic language, geographically situated at the meeting point of the Slavic, Romance, Germanic and Finno-Ugric language groups. In the Slovene settlement area in Italy, in the region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia (FVG), the Slovene language is spoken in its standard and dialect varieties. Slovenes living in the FVG region in Italy are one of the Slovene autochthonous minorities living outside Slovenia. [Maria Bidovec, Norina Bogatec, Matejka Grgic, Miran Košuta, Maja Mezgec, Tomaž Simcic, and Pavel Slamic updated the previous dossier in 2004. Unless otherwise stated academic data refer to the 2017/2018 school year.]