On 2 April, the World Autism Awareness Day, Ljubljana joined the Light It Up Blue international initiative. The Ljubljana Castle and the Triple Bridge (Tromostovje) were illuminated in blue from midnight to 7 a.m. and from 7 p.m. to midnight that day.

For a considerable period of time, the City of Ljubljana has been striving to improve the quality of treatment given to children with special needs, and thus co-finances programmes of supplementary education and training professionals, especially teachers and leaders who teach and work with children with special needs and their parents, thereby enabling children with special needs to receive quality education and be included in regular primary education programmes.

The City of Ljubljana works closely with institutions for special needs children, one of them is the Counselling Centre for Children, Adolescents and Parents Ljubljana, which supports education and works with families. Other such institution is the Special Education Centre Janez Levec, the only educational institution with adapted programme for lower educational standards and special programme in Ljubljana. Both programmes were created for children and adolescents with mental disabilities and often accompanying other disabilities (physiological, emotional, behavioural and mental disabilities).

Ljubljana co-finances companions of children with special needs, who are included in regular departments of elementary education to achieve quality lessons. We especially stand for the right for specific treatment and educational companions for children with Asperger syndrome, a highly functioning autism. These children are often in the need of companions to achieve communication with classmates and adults, and successfully develop their often very high intellectual potential.

The City of Ljubljana has supported a quality programme of supplementary education of training the professionals in day-care centres and schools, and founded the Training Centre with the Special Education Centre Janez Levec. The supplementary education serves the purpose of deepening the practical knowledge and skills for educating children with special needs, which has been often expressed to be imperative by professionals in the area, due to the altered conditions for education with integration, inclusive educational methods and increasing parental involvement.

On World Autism Awareness Day, 2 April, the City of Ljubljana joined the Light It Up Blue international initiative. The Ljubljana Castle and the Triple Bridge (Tromostovje) were illuminated in blue from midnight to 7 a.m. and from 7 p.m. to midnight that day.