The article presents how the project Encyclopaedia of the Slovenian Language and Literature in Carinthia (ESLK) is conceptually embedded in the overall cultural and scientific context. The Slovenian language and literature in Carinthia always represented an integrative part of the overall Slovenian culture and Vienna was, due to its political functions, from very early on a most important centre of Slovene studies as regards the University and the Academy of Sciences. In recent years, despite the lack of systematization of a chair at the University of Vienna, a remarkable number of specific outputs have been produced, reflecting the added value of the specific scientific perspective thus confirming that the Slovenian language and culture are an integrated part of the European cultural space which again underlines the pertinence and the necessity of the ESLK project within the Austrian Science and Research Fund (FWF).
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