Synthetic biology (synbio) is a very young and still unconsolidated new emerging technology. So far, neither an authoritative definition nor a wider social consensus exists on how to approach the social, ethical and legal aspects of this most promising of the new emerging technologies. In order to come to better insight in different dimensions of synthetic biology in Slovenia we, the partners from University of Ljubljana who participate in the SYNENERGENE project, did an extensive survey among representatives of different stakeholder groups in the first half of 2015.