The "Carlo Combi" Italian Center for Promotion, Culture, Education, and Development, based in Koper, was founded in 2005 by the Coastal Self-Governing Community of Italian Nationalities with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia. Its purpose was to provide coherence and overall strategic relevance to the cultural activities and initiatives planned, promoted, and implemented by the Italian National Community in Slovenia. The activities and initiatives of the "Carlo Combi" Italian Center are aimed at maintaining, promoting, and developing the identity of the Italian National Community, the Italian language, and culture in the area of ​​its historical settlement, and aim to develop and consolidate interethnic coexistence, multiculturalism, and multilingualism.

Numerous initiatives have been undertaken over the past two decades to enhance and promote Italian culture and identity in the region. Tele Capodistria's Meridiani series will review some of them and explore how, through knowledge and culture, the Italian minority has increasingly found its rightful place in our country.

In the studio with Silvia Stern are the director and program manager of the Italian Center "Carlo Combi" Kristjan Knez and Roberta Vincoletto, the president of the CAN Costiera Alberto Scheriani and the president of the Italian Union Maurizio Tremul.