ECMI Calendar
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 Advisory Council Conference
The annual Minority Roundtable
For all events that the Centre has participated in month for month, see below.
Events 2012
Conferences, Seminars, Lectures and Events
Additional events are in preparation and will be announced as soon as possible.
January 2012
10 January - 12 January
ECMI Director Dr. Tove Malloy participated in workshop "The Evolution of International Norms and ‘Norm Entrepreneurship’: The Council of Europe in Comparative Perspective". The workshop is organized at Wolfson College, Oxford University, UK.
15 January - 18 January
ECMI Senior Researcher Dr. Federica Prina participated at the conference on European Language Policy for Regional or Minority Languages in Bolzano/Bozen, Italy. Dr. Prina also held the meetings with EURAC representatives on future collaboration.
30 January - 31 January
ECMI Research Associate Ugo Caruso participated in the workshop in Oslo Norway. The workshop was aimed to discuss on the draft study "The Council of Europe and the OSCE: Enhancing Co-operation and Complementarity through Greater Coherence". The workshop was organized by CoE Directorate of Policy Planning and the University of Oslo.
March 2012
08 March - 08 March
ECMI Visiting Researcher Elvira Fetahu presented her PhD Project about Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship.
Note: ECMI Visiting Researchers and Interns present their work after completing their visiting/working period at ECMI.
13 March - 20 March
ECMI Senior Researcher Dr. Alexander Osipov and Project Research Associate Hanna Vasilevich visit Minsk and Mahiliou (Belarus) to conduct discussions and roundtables on the Belarus Programme.
20 March - 20 March
VHS Flensburg visits ECMI.
Note: ECMI doors are open for the students, visiting interns or the organizations in the region for introductory visits.
29 March - 29 March
International student group from Højskolen Østersøen (Aabenraa, Denmark) visits ECMI for introductory presentation. Group of 20 students got to know the work of ECMI and the important aspects of minority issues.
April 2012
04 April
ECMI & Queens University Belfast organizing: "PSA Panel- NTA and Self-determination", PSA Belfast
09 April - 12 April
ECMI hosts the study visit of the government officials, minority organization representatives, researchers and media representatives from Belarus.The guests visit Schleswig-Holstein and Southern Jutland. Accompanying ECMI staff: Senior Researcher Dr Alexander Osipov, Project Associate Hanna Vasilevich and Senior Adviser to ECMI Ewa Chylinski.
16 April - 20 April
ECMI Project Assistant Ignasi Torres participated and presented his paper at the conference on Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution in Ankara, Turkey. The conference was organized by the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (ICD).
25 April - 25 April
ECMI Conflict and Security Cluster organized the seminar on Reconciliation and Peacebuilding in Post-war Societies: A European Challenge. The speakers were the scholars from UK, Croatia and the ECMI staff. See the programme.
May 2012
07 May - 08 May
ECMI Advisory Council Anual Event, Berlin (Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesvertretung). Further Information.
09 May - 09 May
ECMI Hosts the meeting of Young Social Democrats at Kompagnietor Building.
Note: ECMI Conference Room doors are open for all local public institutions upon appointment.
11 May - 11 May
ECMI Hosts Folk Baltica event.
11 May - 12 May
ECMI Director Dr. Tove Malloy and Senior Researcher Dr. Alexander Osipov participate in the NTA workshop at lantos Institute, Budapest, Hungary.
14 May - 14 May
Interns from the Stadtbibliothek Flensburg visit ECMI Library for the study tour.
22 May - 23 May
ECMI Director Dr. Tove Malloy participated in the UN Expert Seminar on Religious Rights, Vienna, Austria.
29 May - 30 May
ECMI Director Dr. Tove Malloy participated at DIHR Expert Seminar on Danish foreign policy and human rights, Copenhagen, Denmark.
30 May - 30 May
ECMI Head of Secretariat Maj-Britt Risbjerg Hansen participated at the "Faggruppemøde sprog og kultur" at Regionskontoret, Padborg, Denmark.
31 May - 05 June
ECMI Senior Researcher Dr. Alexander Osipov and Project Research Associate Hanna Vasilevich attend the Hrodna Festival in Belarus.
June 2012
05 June - 05 June
ECMI hosted German Culture Society (Dt. Kulturgesellschaft) meeting at Kompagnietor.
11 June - 15 June
ECMI Project Assistant Ignasi Torrent Oliva visited Basque Country. The field trip to Bilbao and Vitoria underlined the ECMI interest in current reconciliation process taking place in the Basque Country.
13 June - 13 June
ECMI interns and fellow researchers visit German Minority Organization (BDN) in Aabernaa, Denmark.
13 June - 16 June
ECMI Project Research Associate Hanna Vasilevich participated at the conference on Minorities and EU Eastern Enlargement: "Past, Present and Future Experiences", in Tartu, Estonia
14 June - 14 June
ECMI hosted FolkBaltica Festival press conference at Kompagnietor
14 June - 14 June
ECMI Head of Secretariat Maj-Britt Risbjerg Hansen and ECMI Legal Counsel Astrid Voss participated at the Regionskontoret event "Projects, people, money and PR" in Bov, Denmark
26 June - 28 June
ECMI Researcher Dr. Andreea Udrea participated in the CRONEM Annual Conference "The Future of Multiculturalism: Structures, Integration Policies and Practices" organized by the Centre for the Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism at University of Surrey, UK, in collaboration with the UCL Migration Research Unit. Dr. Andreea Udrea presented the paper "'Kin-state Responsibility, Non-Resident Citizenship, and Multiculturalism".
26 June - 26 June
ECMI interns and fellow researchers visited Frisian Minority Representatives in Bredtstedt, Germany.
July 2012
03 July - 05 July
ECMI Course: "Minorities and Conflict", Flensburg
06 July
ECMI organized conference: "HCNM 20 years on", at Flensborghus, Flensburg.
Further information on event here.
23 July - 23 July
ECMI researcher Dr. Andreea Udrea participated in the workshop organized by Romanian Center for European Policies (CRPE) in Bucharest, Romania.
August 2012
06 August - 12 August
ECMI Assistant for the Administration Tamari Bulia participated in the Summer School on "Using Lisbon Treaty for Building Active Citizenship" in Vilnius, Lithuania. The summer school was funded by European Commission programme Europe for Citizens. Ms. Bulia presented the video on EU Citizenship filmed by her and students of University of Flensburg at Kompagnietor.
23 August - 23 November
ECMI Project Research Associate Hanna Vasilevich participated at the TIME consortium board meeting at Leuven, Belgium.
28 August - 28 August
ECMI Head of Secretariat Maj-Britt Risbjerg Hansen participated at the "Faggruppemøde sprog og kultur" at Regionskontoret, Padborg, Denmark.
September 2012
03 September - 03 September
ECMI Director Dr. Tove Malloy participated in the UACES Conference in Passau, Germany
06 September - 13 September
ECMI Organized annual summer school "National Minorities and Border Regions" in Flensburg, Germany.
Further information here.
10 September - 10 September
ECMI Senior Researcher Dr. Alexander Osipov participated in the workshop on Territorial and Non-Territorial Autonomies, at Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Birmingham, UK
14 September - 15 September
ECMI Organized the Conference on Autonomy Arrangement in World at Flensborghus, Flensburg, Germany. The conference was organized in cooperation with Babes-Bolyai Univerity, Cluj, Romania
27 September - 28 September
ECMI Senior Researcher Dr. Alexander Osipov participated in the conference "Between Ideology and Social Engineering; The communist authorities and the issues concerning national minorities - Polish and Central European experiences" in Szczecin, Poland.
October 2012
04 October - 04 October
ECMI Director Dr. Tove Malloy participated and represented ECMI at the Advisory Board Meeting of the FP7 Project "Developing alternative understandings of security and justice through restorative justice approaches in intercultural settings within democratic societies"in Belfast, Northern Ireland
10 October - 10 October
ECMI Research Associate Ugo Caruso participated in the annual academy meeting of the IFSH Master of Peace and Security in Hamburg, Germany
12 October - 12 October
ECMI Senior Researcher Dr. Alexander Osipov participates in the seminar "Anti-Discrimination Strategies in Post-Soviet Russia" in Moscow, Russia
18 October - 19 October
ECMI Project Research Associate Hanna Vasilevich participates in the expert workshop on “Effective participation of persons belonging to minorities in law enforcement: Building an inclusive and responsive police force and judiciary“ in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
22 October - 22 November
ECMI started Seminar on European Minority Regime at University of Flensburg. The course is designed for Master Programme students of European Studies. Read the detailed information on the seminar.
26 October - 26 October
EYMI Annual Meeting, Flensburg
29 October - 29 October
Dialogue Forum Norden at Akademie Sankelmark
November 2012
02 November - 02 November
ECMI hosted Moldova-Transdniestria education study tour for officials and experts, organized by CMI, EISA
03 November - 03 November
BDN German Culture Festival in Tinglev, Germany
08 November - 11 November
ECMI Director Dr. Tove Malloy and the Dr. Alexander Osipov and Dr. Andreea Carstocea participated at the NTA workshop at Queen's University, Belfast
"The Challenge of Non-Territorial Autonomy Minorities, Nations and Cultural Diversity"
15 November - 18 November
ECMI Project Research Associate Hanna Vasilevich participated in 44th Annual Convention “ Boundary, Barrier and Border Crossing” in New Orleans, Louisiana. The event was organized by Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.
22 November - 22 November
ECMI hosted meeting with Jan Diedrichsen (FUEN) and Loránt Vincze (European Parliament). For further information click here.
22 November - 22 November
ECMI Hosts 15 High School students from Goethe Schule Flensburg, who are attending the course on Intercultural Learning. ECMI will present its work, library and the situation of Sinti and Roma in Schleswig-Holstein.
26 November - 26 November
ECMI Director Dr. Tove Malloy and the Associate Researcher Ugo Caruso participate at the Dialogue on the role of the UN in advancing protection of minorities and combatting racial discrimination, Organized by United Nations Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights.
27 November - 28 November
ECMI Director Dr. Tove Malloy and Associate Researcher Ugo Caruso participate in the Fifth Session of the Forum on Minority Issues, organized by Unites Nations Office of High Commissioner on Human Rights.
Read the ECMI Statement at the Forum by Dr. Tove H. Malloy here.
27 November - 27 November
ECMI hosted meeting of the German Danish BrainTrust from IHK Flensburg. ECMI hosts different organizations for meetings and events at Kompagnietor (Folk Baltika, Standesamt, etc)
27 November - 27 November
ECMI Head of Secretariat Maj-Britt Risbjerg Hansen participated at the "Faggruppemøde sprog og kultur" at Regionskontoret, Padborg, Denmark.
29 November - 30 November
ECMI Researcher Dr. Zora Popova and Project Research Associate Hanna Vasilevich participated at the conference on "Human Rights and Democracy in Action - Looking Ahead: The impact of the Council of Europe Charter on Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education", in Strasburg, France. The conference was organized by Council of Europe (Programme on Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights (Education Department), Human Rights Education Youth Programme (Youth Department)), European Commission (DG for Education and Culture) and The European Wergeland Centre, Norway.
December 2012
07 December - 07 December
Head of Culture and Diversity Cluster Dr. Federica Prina is participating in the HCNM Media workshop in Amsterdam, Netherlands
07 December - 07 December
Head of Politics and Civil Society Cluster Dr. Andreea Udrea, Project Assistant Oto Skale and Assistant to the Secretariat Tamari Bulia participate in the CESEM workshop in University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
10 December - 11 December
ECMI Librarian William McKinney participates in the EINIRAS Conference in Paris, France
10 December - 13 December
ECMI Senior Researcher Dr. Alexander Osipov is participating at the Regional Expert Seminar "Human Rights Dimension in Diversity Politics" in Bishkek, Kyrgizstan. The seminar is organized by American University in Bishkek.
11 December - 16 December
ECMI Project Research Associate Hanna Vasilevich is attending the Tempus Programme Info day in Viciebsk, Belarus.
13 December - 13 December
During the last General Staff Meeting of the year, the ECMI Director Dr. Tove Malloy elcted the "ECMI Employee of the year 2012" - Tamari Bulia.
18 December - 18 December
ECMI Director Dr. Tove Malloy participates in a workshop "Towards a Strategy for Reconciliation in the OSCE Area" in Vienna, Austria. The workshop is organized by OSCE Conflict Prevention Centre.
24 December - 26 December
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