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The ECMI has begun a new series of workshops for PhD researchers in the field of minority studies. On Saturday 17th March, six young researchers gathered at ECMI’s headquarters in Flen… Read More

The Annual Programme 2018 of the ECMI is now online! The publication contains information on planned activities and initiatives in research and action in 2018.  What is the ECMI team pl… Read More

A year in facts and numbers: ECMI work in 2017 is summarized in our recent annual report with the title “Making a Difference in the Eastern Neighbourhood“. ECMI An… Read More

We respect your data privacy! A special announcement from the ECMI regarding the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Dear ECMI Friends and Colleagues, You may be awar… Read More

Job announcement at the ECMI: apply now for the Internal Communications Coordinator and join the international team in Flensburg, Germany. The European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI) invi… Read More

ECMI Minority Regime Seminar goes to Bishkek! Our research team teaches at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek. What are ‘minority rights’? What are the main landmarks in European histor… Read More

On Monday,  June4 , the ECMI hosted the 9th Annual Minority Roundtable at Kompagnietor. This year, the topic of discussins was the Minority SafePack Initiative. Partcipants Th… Read More

#FCNM20, or the 20th Anniversary of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities remains the highlight of the year at the ECMI. The latest edition of the ECMI Exte… Read More

Prof. Catherine Poujol, Director of IFEAC – Institut français d’études sur l’Asie centrale will present 33 years of extensive field research on Bukharan Jews… Read More

For the very first time, ECMI is invited to speak in South Africa Although there is a long tradition of academic cooperation between Germany and South Africa, the interest in the ECMI’… Read More

“Germany was one of the first countries to appoint a commissioner for national minorities, and there are still only a handful in Europe. It was a very smart move, and the various Feder… Read More

As part of a very ambitious reform scheme to be implemented across a number of sectors in Ukraine, the 2017 Law on Education (new education law) replaces the legislation adopted in 1991 imme… Read More

Picture: From left to right:  Johannes Callsen, Daniel Günther, Caroline Schwarz and Björn Engholm. ©Frank Peter Many representatives of the Minority and Majority po… Read More

From the 2nd until the 4th of November, the ECMI Ukraine team conducted its second regional training for around 20 young Ukrainian activists and young professionals interested in minority is… Read More

Last week, ECMI Director Prof. Tove Malloy and ECMI Senior Research Associate Dr. Ljubica Đorđević-Vidojković attended the UN Minority Forum session in Geneva. Last week`… Read More

Der Workshop wurde vom Sorbischen Institut in Bautzen, dem Institut für schleswig-holsteinische Zeit- und Regional Geschichte (IZRG) und dem European Center for Minority Issues (ECMI) i… Read More

The ECMI and the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) have been cooperating successfully in recent years. However, this will be the first time that ECMI conducts an inhouse workshop o… Read More

On the 5th of December, Alina will give a presentation to the ECMI team on the following subject: ‘Spatial Belonging’: Meanings and Practices among Russian speakers in post-Sovie… Read More

JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS: Do you thrive in an international setting? Can you guide a team, and set priorities? Do you want to transform your research into action? If yes, this might be the positio… Read More

DIRECTOR OF THE EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MINORITY ISSUES (ECMI) The European Centre for Minority Issues is an independent research centre in Flensburg/Germany established by agreement between the… Read More

Have you have already heard about our new project – DMD? In the ECMI`s case, DMD stands for DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT FOR SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT of Local Self-Government bodies wi… Read More

The ECMI´s newest project in Ukraine is called DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT FOR SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT/ short DMD (2018-2019). By fostering the approach of local self-governance and… Read More

Last week, the ECMI had a high-ranking visit: Three members of the former bureau of the ACFC (Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities) vis… Read More

This week ECMI Director Prof. Malloy travelled to Jerusalem to attend the international roundtable organised by the Citizens’ Accord Forum (CAF). The forum was established in 2001… Read More

In addition to the centre`s recent activities in Ukraine, ECMI minority-experts presented a study commissioned by the Council of Europe in Kyiv/ Ukraine this month (March 5th). The joint s… Read More

A busy period of publications for ECMI researchers over the past few months included multiple publications from Dr. Ljubica Djordjević, head of the Justice and Governance Cluster at the… Read More

And smile…It was with great pleasure that ECMI Director Prof. Malloy and her team of researchers welcomed Anton Thomsen, policy analyst at the HCNM’s office, to the ECMI headqu… Read More

The ECMI is currently looking for an intern within the project ‘Career guidance and counselling for vulnerable groups in Serbia’. About us: The European Centre for Minority Iss… Read More

In 2018, the ECMI expanded its geographical scope to include focus on the region of Central Asia. Yashikul Lake in Pamir in Tajikistan The centre-piece of this was a workshop held at the ECM… Read More

The ECMI’s first textbook has been used since 2013 as the core literature when teaching MA courses on Minority Issues, particularly the annual course at the Europa University Flensbur… Read More

Die Fotografin ist in Georgien geboren und aufgewachsen © Natela Grigalashvili Ab heute kann man die anspruchsvollen Fotografien der georgischen Künstlerin wieder bewundern. Das Ha… Read More

The ECMI hosts a variety of interns across its research clusters each year and where possible offers the opportunity for these to contribute to the ECMI Working Paper series around the rese… Read More

Our head of Politics and Civil Society cluster, Dr. Sergiusz Bober, presents at the Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) in Edinburgh… Read More

Dear ECMI followers, Spring is already knocking on the door of “Kompagnietor”, the ECMI HQ in Flensburg, and as such it is good timing to provide a seasonal update of the ECMI&r… Read More

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New York, New York… ECMI Director Prof. Malloy and Research Assistant Viktoria Martovskaya are at the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) World Convention in New York t… Read More

Data Protection Workshop at the ECMI:On May 28th and 29th, the ECMI hosted a workshop organised with the University of Siena as part of their Jean Monnet Project ‘Boosting European Sec… Read More

ECMI Research assistant Craig Willis and ECMI Senior Analyst Dr. Zora Popova at the FUEN CONGRESS 2019 The Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN) celebrated its 70th anniversary at… Read More

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From 26-28 June ECMI Director Prof Malloy will be in Toronto to attend the Sixth Annual Conference of the International Association of Language Commissioners (IALC ) ECMI Director Prof Mallo… Read More

Freshly printed: The three recent ECMI publications The ECMI published three Working Papers over the last few months, written by different members of the ECMI research team, covering varying… Read More

As a part of its work on non-territorial autonomy arrangements, the ECMI is part of the European Non-Territorial Autonomy Network (ENTAN). ENTAN recently published three calls. Although not… Read More

The ECMI has a new Moldova project, implemented in cooperation with the Moldovan Partner Youth Platform for Interethnic Solidarity. As the title “Empowering future Minority Leaders (in… Read More

Scholars, students and practitioners of European Union politics, migration studies, minority studies, sociology, international law and human rights: This book might be interesting to you! W… Read More

Busy times lie behind and ahead of the new ECMI Senior Researcher Dr. Marika Djolai. After presenting a paper on illiberal democracy and its determinants in the Balkans at the “Conflic… Read More

The project “Diversity Management for sustainable economic Development” (DMD) has been accompanying the ECMI throughout 2019. The Highlight of the pioneering initiative has been… Read More

The concept of national minority capital combines regional development studies, minority studies, social capital theory and results from the analysis of empirical research conducted by the E… Read More

ECMI Minorities Blog Regulating Hate Speech Online for Minorities: “Regulate First, Ask Questions Later”?  Nearly a third of the world’s population is active on Faceb… Read More

We proudly present the ECMI project Empowering Future Minority Leaders (in Moldova). The opening of the exhibition will take place at the Danish Library (Norderstr. 59, 24939 Flensburg… Read More

If a concerned analyst, researcher or citizen visited any of the leading security websites such as www.scheneirer.com they won’t find a reference to minorities among the recent articl… Read More

Honoured guests are today in the historic building of the ECMI headquarters: Among others, Alex Koenig (EURAC/Italy), Prof. Eric Heinze (Queen Mary London/ UK), Prof. Paul Iganski (Universit… Read More

Over the years a consensus has been established at the international level about the importance of ethnic data for the fight against discrimination, protection of national minorities and i… Read More

Ever since David Cameron announced a referendum on membership of the European Union (EU) in late 2015, the implications of leaving the bloc have been discussed from a wide array of perspecti… Read More

In the frames of the project Career guidance and counselling for vulnerable groups in Serbia, ECMI Senior Research Associate Dr. Andreea Carstocea, Dr. Ljubica Dorđević-Vidojkovi&#… Read More

1. Reflect and evaluate Think of what happened in the whole year. Reflect on what went wrong and take the lessons with you.Think of all the achievements you made, you will be surprised… Read More

Zebra patterns (ZPs) represent a spectral fine structure with equidistant or almost-equidistant stripes of enhanced intensity against a broadband emission background, frequently observed in… Read More

Electron cyclotron maser emission (ECME) represents a major class of coherent emission mechanism of solar radio bursts. ECME usually occurs in strongly magnetized plasmas with the frequency… Read More

These are another collection of new braids hairstyles for black women that loves braids.  So if you are looking for new ideas of hairstyles that will make you look beautiful, then you a… Read More

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The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) on Saturday, January 28, decided to make the National Day of Prayer and Awareness against Human Trafficking (NDPAHT) a yearly… Read More