13 January

Presentation of ECMI to a group of visitors from the Danish Amtsgymnasium in Sønderborg, Kompagnietor, Flensburg, Germany.

21 January

Visit to ECMI of Mr Pavel Sulyandziga, the First Vice-President of the Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North (RAPION) and Ms Daria Kudriashova, Vice-President of the same organization. They had a meeting with ECMI Senior research associate Priit Järve and ECMI interns Ms Oksana Maljutina and Ms Kadri Soon. ECMI helped the guests to establish contact with the FUEN.

29 January

Visit to ECMI of Dr Joachim Köhler from the Landtag Schleswig-Holstein.

18 February

Presentation of ECMI to a group of international students from the Open University in Loegumkloster.

25 February - 28 February

ECMI Balkans Summit meeting. Annual consultation and strategy meeting ECMI headquarters and Balkans Offices.

17 March

Visit of Ms. Ute Erdsiek-Rave, Minister for Culture and Educational Policy of Schleswig-Holstein, and representatives of Schüler Helfen Leben, a German-based school initiative active in Kosovo, ECMI Headquarter, Germany.

28 March - 30 March

Workshop III of Carnegie Project 'Resolving Self-Determination Disputes Using Complex Power Sharing' at Lauterpact Centre for International Law, Cambridge.

03 April - 05 April

ECMI Panel on Ethnopolitics and Elections at 8th Annual World Convention of the ASN, "History, Identity and Political Order in the New Europe" at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York.

Chair
Graham Holliday (ECMI)

Papers
Stefan Wolff (University of Bath)
The Ethnopolitical Dynamics of Elections

Florian Bieber (ECMI)
Electoral Engineering: The Balkan Record

Eben Friedman (ECMI)
Electoral System Design and Minority Representation in Slovakia and Macedonia

Discussant
Shale Horowitz (University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee)

04 April

ASN Panel on Minorities and Conflict in Postcommunist Europe: The Role of International Norms and Governance at the 8th Annual World Convention of the ASN, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York.

Chair
Sally Cummings (University of Edinburgh)

Papers
Neil Melvin (University of Leeds/OSCE HCNM)
The OSCE and National Minorities following European Enlargement: New Challenges and Evolving Approaches

Gwendolyn Sasse (LSE/Free University Berlin)
EU Conditionality and Minority Rights in Central and Eastern Europe

Graham Holliday (ECMI)
International Involvement and Minority Accommodation in Postconflict Macedonia

Discussant
James Hughes (LSE)

18 April

1st Anniversary of the ECMI Regional NGO Resource Centre Kumanovo

19 April - 20 April

Training " Basics of Project Proposal Development I & II", ECMI Regional NGO Resource Centre Kumanovo

20 April

Launch of "Schools of Politics Initiative", collaborative project between the Council of Europe and the ECMI Kosovo Civil Society Initiative, ECMI Kosovo.

21 April - 22 April

Training "Basics of Project Proposal Development I & II", ECMI Regional NGO Resource Centre Štip

23 April - 24 April

Training "Networking and Fundraising for NGOs", ECMI Regional NGO Resource Centre Štip

29 April

ECMI Internal Research Seminar. Papers delivered by ECMI Research Associates Eben Friedman "Electoral System Design and Minority Representation in Slovakia and Macedonia" and Graham Holliday "International Involvement and Minority Accommodation in Post-conflict Macedonia", followed by concluding discussion.

01 May

Study visit of Kosovars to Denmark, "The Danish-German borderland experience and ethnic divide in Kosovo". Højskolen Østersøen in collaboration with the Nansen Dialogue initiative Mitrovica, Kosovo. ECMI training sessions: "The Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities and its monitoring mechanisms" (Dr Alexander Morawa); "Power-sharing and autonomy in regulating minority-majority relations" (Graham Holliday).

13 May - 14 May

Training " Basics of Project Proposal Development I & II", ECMI Regional NGO Resource Centre Skopje

14 May

Visit to ECMI of international group sponsored by Rotary Club, Aabenraa.

15 May - 16 May

Training "Networking and Fundraising for NGOs", ECMI Regional NGO Resource Centre Skopje

17 May - 18 May

Training " Basics of Project Proposal Development I & II", ECMI Regional NGO Resource Centre Gostivar

18 May - 21 May

ECMI Director Mr Weller visits the ECMI Regional Office Skopje and the program activities of the ECMI NGO Network for the improvement of Interethnic Relations in the Republic of Macedonia

21 May

1st Anniversary of the ECMI Regional NGO Resource Centre Tetovo

24 May - 25 May

ECMI seminar "Towards the management of linguistic diversity in the Baltic States", in Vilnius, Lithuania, sponsored by the Lannungsfond, Denmark.

24 May

ECMI Kosovo: Standing Technical Working Group Civic Forum "The Returns Process in Kosovo", Grand Hotel, Pristina, Kosovo

26 May - 27 May

Training "Basics of Project Proposal Development I & II", ECMI Regional NGO Resource Centre Bitola

28 May - 29 May

Training "Networking and Fundraising for NGOs", ECMI Regional NGO Resource Centre Bitola

31 May - 02 June

ECMI NGO Network for the Improvement of Interethnic Relations in the Republic of Macedonia, Coordinating Body Meeting, Ohrid, Macedonia.

31 May - 02 June

Third meeting of the Coordinative Body of ECMI NGO Network for the Improvement of Interethnic Relations in the Republic of Macedonia.

31 May - 01 June

ECMI Kosovo "Schools of Politics" - inaugural workshop of joint ECMI/Council of Europe initiative, Ohrid, Macedonia.

04 June

ECMI Kosovo: Standing Technical Working Group Civic Forum "The Returns Process in Kosovo", Grand Hotel, Pristina, Kosovo

05 June - 08 June

"EU Support for Minority Languages: The SMiLE Project", presentation given by Francois Grin at the 7th International Conference on Minority Languages, Kiruna, Sweden

18 June

ECMI Internal Research Seminar. Presentations by ECMI Research Associates Eben Friedman "Integration of Roms in Macedonia" and Graham Holliday "The Politics of Minority Participation in the 'New' Europe", followed by discussion.

19 June - 20 June

Minority Ombudsman Project: Meeting of the Team of Experts, ECMI Headquarters, Flensburg

08 July - 09 July

Training "Networking and Fundraising for NGOs", ECMI Regional NGO Resource Centre Kumanovo

12 July - 13 July

Training "Networking and Fundraising for NGOs", ECMI Regional NGO Resource Centre Tetovo

14 July - 15 July

Framework Convention Project, Meeting of the Team of Commentators, ECMI Headquarters, Flensburg

16 July

ECMI Kosovo: Standing Technical Working Group Civic Forum "Promoting Health Care Provision and Access", Grand Hotel, Pristina, Kosovo

19 July - 20 July

Training "Networking and Fundraising for NGOs", ECMI Regional NGO Resource Centre Gostivar

21 July - 27 July

Field monitoring visit to ECMI programme in Macedonia by ECMI Administrative Director Astrid Voss and Research Associate Eben Friedman. Voss held consultative meetings with the project team and with technical assistants at the ECMI Regional Centres in Skopje, Kumanovo, Bitola, Gostivar and Tetovo. The mayor of Gostivar provided a briefing on the positive impact of the ECMI NGO Network in Gostivar. During the visit Voss and Friedman spoke to representatives of members of the ECMI NGO Network for the Improvement of Interethnic Relations in the Republic of Macedonia.

28 July

ECMI Research Associate Eben Friedman holds a consultative meeting with Erduan Iseni, mayor of the Romani municipality of Šuto Orizari.

01 August

First consultative meeting of the experts in the framework of the ECMI Project "Stabilizing and improving interethnic relations in the Kaliningrad oblast" in Kaliningrad, Russian Federation.

19 September

Second expert meeting of experts in the framework of the ECMI project "Stabilizing and improving interethnic relations in the Kaliningrad oblast" in Kaliningrad, Russian Federation.

26 September - 29 September

ECMI Kosovo/Council of Europe "Schools of Politics" - annual joint workshop, Strasbourg, France.

08 October - 15 October

ECMI Kosovo: Fourth Standing Technical Working Group Civic Forum

16 October - 17 October

Minority Ombudsman Conference, Berlin. Representatives of specialized Minority Ombudsperson institutions as well as general Ombudsperson offices that routinely deal with minority issues will gather in Berlin for a two-day conference, together with the six members of the Team of Experts attached to the project and members of the project team. The discussions will focus on three topics: (a) Foundational Criteria for Specialized Minority Ombudspersons, (b) The Mandate, Duties and Powers of Specialized Minority Ombudspersons, and (c) The Functions of Specialized Minority Ombudspersons and Matters of the Organization of their Offices.

23 October

The meeting in Kaliningrad "New problems in the accommodation of migrants in the region" of the expert committee on migration problems in the framework of the ECMI project "Stabilization and improvement of interethnic relations in the Kaliningrad region".

24 October - 26 October

ECMI Research Associate Eben Friedman holds a lecture at a conference on "Minorities / Human Rights in Central- and Eastern Europe" in Prague. The conference is organised by the Jewish organisation "B'Naj B'Rith" and sponsored by the Robert-Bosch Foundation

24 October

The meeting in Kaliningrad "Fundraising capacity of national minority organizations and how to enhance it" of the expert committee on national minorities in the framework of the ECMI project "Stabilization and improvement of interethnic relations in the Kaliningrad region".

10 November - 14 November

ECMI Kosovo: Standing Technical Working Group, Study Visit and Training at the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, Warsaw, Poland (tbc).

01 December - 07 December

ECMI Kosovo: Standing Technical Working and Expert Committees - Annual Evaluation and Review

10 December

General Assembly of the ECMI NGO Network for the Improvement of Interethnic Relations in the Republic of Macedonia