ECMI Events
Every year the ECMI organizes a number of events both in Flensburg and in the regions of our Regional offices. Conferences, seminars, workshops, lectures and other types of events are usually announced ahead of time on our main homepage or on the pages of the Regional offices.
Recurrent events include
The annual Advisory Council Conference
The annual Minority Roundtable
For all events that the Centre has participated in month for month, see below.
Events 2010
Conferences, Seminars, Lectures and Events
Additional events are in preparation and will be announced as soon as possible.
January 2010
12 January
Presentation by Deputy Director Ewa Chylinski on “ECMI’s work” to a group of interested pensionists from Glücksburg and Husum, Kompagnietor, Flensburg
13 January
Presentation by Director Tove Malloy to the Europaausschuss, Schleswig-Holsteinischer Landtag, Kiel
13 January
Chairman Knud Larsen and Director Tove Malloy were received by Landtagspresident, Mr Torsten Geerdts, Schleswig-Holsteinischer Landtag, Kiel
14 January
Internal Presentation by Zorana Kataranovski, ECMI Intern on “Education of Minorities in Serbia and the Ethnopolitical Map of Serbia”, Flensburg
15 January
Presentation by Director Tove Malloy on “Zukunft der Minderheiten – Minderheiten der Zukunft”, at the New Year’s Conference of the Bund Deutscher Nordschleswiger (BDN), Sankelmark, Germany
16 January - 17 January
Weekend Seminar on: “Danish Society and Culture” at the University of Flensburg, conducted by Ewa Chylinski, Flensburg
25 January
Dialogforum Norden Meeting, Haus Nordschleswig, Aabenraa, Denmark
February 2010
01 February
Chairman Knud Larsen and Director Tove Malloy received by the President of Schleswig-Holstein, Mr. Peter Harry Carstensen, State Chancellery, Kiel
17 February
Director Tove Malloy presents the study “Kompetenzanalyse” (Competence Analysis) to the regional working group of the Congress of Regional and Local Authorities, the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France
17 February - 18 February
CoE, Danida and ECMI joint programme on Good Governance & Rule of Law in Georgia – Ewa Chylinski providing joint training on collaborative approaches to Minority Governance for the Inter-ministerial Coordination Group, Council of National Minorities and Public Broadcasting Minority Programmes Section, Tbilisi, Georgia
23 February
Authors’ meeting of the ECRML on the Frisian Language, Föhr, Ewa Chylinski to present on the ECRML modalities
24 February
First ECMI Regional Roundtable Discussion on “Learning from the 2009 Elections”, Flensburg
March 2010
08 March - 11 March
Visit by a Delegation from the Georgian Ministry of Reintegration, ECMI, Flensburg
12 March
Ewa Chylinski lecture on “Hungarian Minorities” at Southern Denmark University, Sønderborg
18 March - 20 March
ECMI’s non-resident Senior Research Associate Network (SRAN) Meeting, ECMI, Flensburg
19 March
First ECMI Regional Academic Forum Meeting – Constitutive first Forum meeting to discuss ways and means to make the experiences of the border region better known to colleagues in Europe, Kompagnietor, Flensburg
24 March - 28 March
Jan Asmussen and Oleh Protsyk participation at the Mediterranean Research Meeting 2010 on “Rethinking Interethnic Reconciliation in the Western Balkans: Borders, Minorities, Governance”. Oleh Protsyk presenting paper on: “Politisation of Ethnicity in Party Manifestos”, Florence, Italy
27 March - 31 March
Ewa Chylinski conducting training in Georgia for the Council of Europe Programme: Trainings for Ministries/Minority Councils
30 March
Paper delivered by Dr. Tove Malloy at the 60th Political Studies Association Annual Conference “Sixty Years of Political Studies: Achievements and Futures”, in Edinburgh, UK
April 2010
09 April
Visit by Danish Helsinki Committee, presentations on minorities by Tove Malloy, Ewa Chylinski, Oleh Protsyk and Jan Asmussen, Flensburg
12 April
ECMI / European Academy of Bolzano (EURAC) Study Group “Minorities in Russia” workshop, ECMI, Flensburg
13 April - 16 April
Ewa Chylinski to give presentation for the Council of Europe at the “European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (ECRML) and Minorities in Russia” meeting, Moscow, Russia
14 April - 16 April
ECMI Director Dr. Tove H. Malloy participates in the 3rd annual Fundamental Rights Platform (FRP) of the European Union’s Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) in Vienna, Austria
15 April - 17 April
ECMI-sponsored panel on “Party Competition for Ethnic Minority Vote: Programmatic and Organizational Aspects” lead by Oleh Protsyk, at the Association for Study of Nationalities, New York City, USA
20 April
ECMI participates in conference on new Danish appropriations law for the Danish minority in Schleswig-Holstein. ECMI Director Dr. Tove H. Malloy participated in the conference and provided a presentation on similar legal instruments adopted by European states, at University of Aarhus’ conference centre, Sandbjerg Gods, Denmark
20 April
Internal presentation by Burcak Arikan, ECMI intern on: “Roma Inclusion in the European Context of Minorities”, Kompagnietor
22 April
ECMI FolkBALTICA Symposium on “Kultur und Völkervielfalt im Baltischen Raum – Fokus Lettland“, open to public: 16-18 hrs, ECMI, Kompagnietor, Schiffbruecke 12, Flensburg.
29 April
Internal presentation by Ilona Filimonova, ECMI Intern on: "Languages of Russian Federation and the ratification of the European Charter for Regional and Minority Languages", Kompagnietor
May 2010
05 May
Ewa Chylinski and Maj-Britt Risbjerg Hansen participation at workshop on: „Sønderborg Kulturby 2017“, Bov, Denmark
06 May
Europawoche: Presentation by Deputy Director Ewa Chylinski on “Marginalisierte Minderheiten in Europa am Beispiel Roma”, 16-17 hrs, at ECMI, Kompagnietor, Schiffbruecke 12, Flensburg
06 May
Jan Asmussen visiting the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Conference on: „Deutschland, Russland und Europa“, Berlin
06 May - 07 May
Tove Malloy and Ewa Chylinski attending conference at University of Flensburg on: „Geographie(s) of education in European border regions: the making and breaking of (b)orders”.
12 May
Presentation by William Mckinney on “ECMI’s work” to a group from Munkbrarup, Kompagnietor, Flensburg
13 May - 14 May
Presentation on Minority Political Participation by Oleh Protsyk, FUEN Congress, Ljubljana
17 May
Ewa Chylinkski presentation on “Roma in South East Europe”, Landeshaus Kiel, Kiel
18 May
ECMI participating at the “Parlamentarischer Abend im Landeshaus: Nationale Minderheiten und Volksgruppen in Nordschleswig und Schleswig-Holstein und Minderheitenorganisationen stellen sich vor”, Kiel
18 May - 23 May
Ewa Chylinski giving presentation on “Minority Governance in Europe” at the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung - Europa’s Asia (ASEM) Conference, Singapore
26 May
Presentation on “ECMI’s Work” to the Flensburg Tourist Information and Flensburg City Guides
June 2010
01 June
Ewa Chylinski participating in seminar on: “Images of Minority Languages”, Brussels organized within the framework of the European Foundation Centre’s (EFC) Foundation Week
07 June - 08 June
Presentation on political participation by Oleh Protsyk at Council of Europe conference on the effective participation of persons belonging to national minorities in Skopje, Macedonia
24 June
ECMI public lecture on “Ethnic Mobilization and the International Community”
Thursday, 24th June at 13 – 17 hrs. Speakers: Joanna Jasiewicz, PhD, University Bremen: “The Role of European Union and Transnational Networks in Enhancing Ethnic Minorities’ Activism”. Jakob Skovgaard, PhD, Danish Ministry of Finance: “European Organisations and the Hungarian Minorities in Romania and Slovakia”. Alexandre Couture Gagnon, PhD-candidate, Visiting Fellow at ECMI from the Carleton University, Canada: “Competing States: The Use of Public Policy by Minority and Majority Nations”. Daniel Hegedus, Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Political and International Studies: "The failure of EU conditionality. The Slovakian-Hungarian minority conflict". Emelyne Cheney, PhD, London School of Economics: “The Impact of European Integration on Minority Nationalist Mobilisation in France”
July 2010
18 July
Ewa Chylinski to give presentation on “Roma Issues in Europe”, to an International Internship Group of the German Foreign Ministry, Sankelmark
25 July
Ewa Chylinski to give presentation on “Roma Issues in Europe”, to another International Internship Group of the German Foreign Ministry, Sankelmark
September 2010
06 September - 08 September
Two ECMI panels participate in the University Association of Contemporary European Studies (UACES), General Conference, Bruges, Belgium
18 September
Tove Malloy giving presentation to the Danish International Humanitarian Association (IHB), Copenhagen
20 September - 21 September
ECMI / European Academy of Bolzano (EURAC) Joint Workshop on Russian Minorities
December 2010
06 December
ECMI Advisory Council Annual Conference “National Minorities in the 21st Century Europe”, and ECMI Advisory Council Meeting, Flensburg
07 December
ECMI Executive Board Meeting, Flensburg
16 December
ECMI/European Academy of Bolzano (EURAC) presentation of the Yearbook to the Intergroup on National Minorities of the European Parliament, Strasbourg, France
16 December
Annual Meeting of the Yearbook General Editors, Strasbourg, France
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