FUEN supports the video contest 'Camera Obscura numerus minor' of the YEN. That's a youth project, funded by the donation of Renate Schnack, the Schleswig-Holstein Minority Commissioner, to the House of Minorities. More...

The European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI) is expanding its Eastern Partnership Programme team and invites applications for a new position as Project Research Associate within the field of “Minority Studies” beginning as soon as possible. Minority Studies at ECMI cover research on national and ethnic autochthonous minority issues in Europe. More...

A nine-day Cornish Festival will be organized between 25^th of February and 5^th of March in Penzance, Cornwall (UK). The festival will celebrate the Cornish language, culture and heritage and will include various academic and entertainment events at the Acorn in Penzance. More...

The ECMI’s project on Bridge Building and Integration in Diverse Societies is now finalized with a report titled “Dynamics of Integration in the OSCE Area: National Minorities and Bridge Building”. The report investigates how national minorities contribute to bridge building in international relations, and identifies some good examples of initiatives across the OSCE area. More...

The lecture and presentation will focus on the legal status of the Basque language, the Protocol of Donostia 2016 to ensure language rights, and minority languages in education in Europe (particularly the cases of Catalonia in Spain and Sorbian education in Saxony and Brandenburg in Germany). More...

This text discusses the structure and content of diversity policy in the so -called Transnistrian Moldovan Republic (TMR), an unrecognized state that broke away from Moldova during the collapse of the Soviet Union. The case of Transnistria is particularly useful as an example for analyzing the origins, structure, contents and effects of the post-Soviet ethno-cultural policy in a comparative perspective. Moreover, the model of Transnistrian state- and nation-building, since it is not explicitly based on privileging a core ethnicity, differs from nearly all countries and de facto states of the post communist space. More...