After strategic meetings of the ECMI team in October, the ECMI has now expanded cooperation networks in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
At the OSCE Academy, the ECMI team delivered a presentation about ECMI and a lecture with a general introduction to Minority Rights in Europe. The lecture was attended by the students of the OSCE Academy and faculty members who have expressed interest in the ECMI’s activities, internship opportunities and in the topic of minority protection in Europe overall. More...

Throughout the semester the students were introduced to various issues within the wider topic of the Minority Protection Regime in Europe. Spanning everything from the history of minority rights to exploring basic principles of international law in relation to minority protection, as well as politics and theories, the students were familiarized with specific issues such as nationalism, conflict, empowerment, Europeanization, education, the role of media, and right-wing populism. More...

08. December 2017. The ECMI team organized the side event at the OSCE Ministerial Council in Vienna. The event aimed to present and promote a number of initiatives discussed in the report of the 2016 project titled "Bridge Building and Integration in Diverse Societies". More...

Please note: The ECMI secretariat will be closed between 26 December and 01 January. We will be back on 2nd of January 2018. More...

Volume 16, Issue 3, 2017 of the Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe (JEMIE) is now online. A general JEMIE issue with articles on a selection of themes is available for download on ECMI web-page.
The third JEMIE issue for the year 2017 includes two articles on various topics and a commentary within the areas of ethnopolitics and minority issues. More...

Italy, Britain, Russia, and Georgia being in focus, the recent ECMI Working Papers discuss issues such as radicalization, right-wing populism, and importance of topographical landscape. More...