22 January

ECMI Director Prof. Dr. Tove H. Malloy is taking part in the Danish Chairmanship event in the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly in Strasbourg. 

23 January

Head of division of the Schleswig-Holstein land Ministry of Education, Science and Culture Hans Staecker is making a prersentation on "Language Issues/Minority Educational System in Schleswig-Holstein" at the ECMI. 

24 January - 26 January

ECMI Director Prof. Dr. Tove H. Malloy is participating in the launch of the Centre of Excellence at the University of Helsinki. 

24 January - 26 January

ECMI Project Research Associate Stanislav Cernega is participating in launch of Centre of Excellence at the University of Helsinki. 

25 January - 26 January

ECMI Senior Research Associate Dr. Sergiusz Bober and Junior Research Associate Sonja Wolf are attending the COST application workshop at the SDU in Sønderborg. 

29 January - 02 February

ECMI Senior Research Associate Dr. Zora Popova and Communications and Outreach Tamari Bulia are participating in the GIZ project final event meeting in Skopje. 

07 February

Committee of Europe at the Schlewig-Holstein land parliament is visiting the ECMI to learn about the work ECMI is doing. As well they are relocating to ECMI for the day with their meetings and are using ECMI facilities.

12 February

ECMI Director Prof. Dr. Tove H. Malloy and her researchteam for Ukraine travel together with international minority experts ( Mr. Johannes Callsen, Commissioner of the Minister-President of the Federal State of Schleswig-Holstein for National Minorities and Ethnic Groups and Ms. Swetlana Krätschmar President of the City Council of Flensburg) to Kyiv, Ukraine.

The event is hosted by Dr. Rostyslav Pavlenko, Deputy Head of the Administration of the President of Ukraine and intends to advance the discourse on ethno-cultural relations and their development in Ukraine. Representatives from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Education of Ukraine and representatives of the Experts’ Council on Ethno-Political Issues at the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine i.e. Prof. Dr. Volodymyr Yevtukh and Ms. Olha Zhmurko also attend the event. Dr. Andrii Yurash (Ministry of Culture of Ukraine) introduces the book “Constellation of Cultures”.

Prof. Dr. Tove H. Malloy presents the work of ECMI and the four pathways to sustainable ethno-governance in Ukraine. She also highlights the achievements of the EPP programme in Ukraine. Dr. Sergiusz Bober (Senior Research Associate at ECMI) moderates statements delivered by the national minorities on how they envisage cooperation with national and regional authorities.

19 February - 20 February

Ecmi Senior Resaerch Associate Dr. Zora Popova, Resaerch Assisatant Viktoria Martovskaya and Communications and Outreach Tamari Bulia are organizing trainings under the frames of the ECMI Teaching in Diversity project in Kiel.

19 February - 23 February

ECMI Director Prof. Dr. Tove H. Malloy is attending the 61st ACFC Plenary meeting in Strasbourg. 

21 February - 22 February

ECMI Senior Research Associate Dr. Zora Popova will be attending the Teaching in Diversity training. She will be supporting Partners in Bulgaria.

22 February

ECMI Senior Resaerch Associate Dr. Ljubica Đorđević is participating in the workshop CODES "Cultural Diversity" at the Europa-University of Flensburg. 

04 March - 09 March

ECMI Director Prof. Dr. Tove H. Malloy is with the ACFC on a monitoring visit to Switzerland. 

08 March - 08 March

ECMI team conducts pilot trainings for teachers in Kiel, Germany. The teacher trainings are conducted within the framework of the Teaching in Diversity Project. Read more

13 March - 14 March

The ECMI and the Goethe University Frankfurt organize a Book Launch Conference on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities: Taking Stock after 20 Years. Read more

19 March - 23 March

ECMI teaches in Swansea: The ECMI course on the minority protection regime in Europe is now a part of a curriculum at the University of Swansea in Wales, UK. Read more

20 March - 24 March

ECMI Director Prof. Dr. Tove Malloy delivers a lecture and participates in series of workshops on the topic "Asymmetry in decentralised systems – balancing regional diversity with national harmony", taking place in Jakarta and Padang, Indonesia. The events are organised by Max Plank Foundation and Max Plank Institute (Heidelberg), Centre for Constitution Studies (Andalas University), Centre for Anti-Corruption Studies (UGM) – and Curtin University (Perth). Co-sponsors: Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung (Germany), Constitutional Court of Indonesia and Hanns Seidel Stiftung (Germany).

27 March - 28 March

ECMI Senior Research Associate Dr. Zora Popova and Research Assistant Viktoria Martovakaya are participating in the partners' meeting of the Teaching in Diversity project in Sofia, Bulgaria. Read about the project here

18 April - 18 April

ECMI Senior Research Associate Dr. Zora Popova takes part in a Roundtable ‘National minorities and the local self-government (LSG) reform in Ukraine: opportunities for social-economic cohesion’. The event is organized by U-LEAD in Kyiv, Ukraine. 

18 April - 18 April

Chairman of the ECMI Executive Board Prof. Dr. Jørgen Kühl delivers his inaugural lecture as an honorary professor at the European University Flensburg.

18 April - 19 April

ECMI Director Prof. Dr. Tove H. Malloy will be attending the first meeting of the 2020 committee in Kiel Staatskancellei.

20 April - 20 April

ECMI internal Workshop on Central Asia. Read about the ECMI project on Minority Issues on Centrl Asia.

25 April - 27 April

ECMI Senior Research Associate Dr. Zora Popova is holding the lecture and the cooperation meeting at the University of Jena.

26 April

ECMI Director Prof. Dr. Tove H. Malloy will be meeting with Deputy Acquaviva, in the French Assembly in Paris, France.

27 April

ECMI Director Prof. Dr. Tove H. Malloy will be attending an ACFC meeting on Switzerland organised by the Council of Europe in Paris, France.

15 May

ECMI Senior Research Associate Dr. Zora Popova takes part in a High Level Conference on Economic and social cohesion in the Western Balkans, jointly organized by TAIEX and the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) in Sofia, Bulgaria.

15 May

ECMI Executive Board Meeting takes place at the Danish Central Library, Flensburg.

28 May - 01 June

ECMI Director Prof. Dr. Tove H. Malloy will be attending the ACFC Plenary in Strasbourg, France

29 May

ECMI Senior Research Associate Dr. Zora Popova participates in a conference on 'Roma inclusion: where we stand and where we are going to?'

The conference is organized by Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union in Sofia, Bulgaria.

04 June - 04 June

ECMI hosts the annual roundtable conference on minority issues at the ECMI headquarters in Kompagnietor, Flensburg.

11 June - 15 June

ECMI team delivers a course on European Politics and National Minorities at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek, Kyrgystan. Read more here

18 June

ECMI Director Prof. Dr. Tove H. Malloy will be attending the 20th anniversary conference of the FCNM in Strasbourg, France.

20 June - 23 June

ECMI Project assistant Polina Sulima will be attending the FUEN Congress in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands.

20 June - 21 June

ECMI Director Prof. Dr. Tove H. Malloy will be speaking at the Corsica conference in the French National Assembly.

04 July - 06 July

ECMI Senior Research Associates Dr. Sergiusz Bober and Dr. Ljubica Djordjevic participated in the annual conference of the Asssociation for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) in Graz. Seriusz presented about "Danish minority in Schleswig-Holstein vis-a-vis Denmark’s policy towards persons of foreign origin after June 2015 parliamentary election. The case of ‘Flensborg Avis’ newspaper." 

09 July - 11 July

Teaching in Diversity project team participates in the partnership meeting. This meeting is hosted by the UK partner Kairos Europe and will take place in London. Read about the project here.

09 July - 20 July

ECMI Research Associate Caitlin Boulter will be attending the EURAC Summer school on Human Rights, Minorities and Diversity Governance. The Summer School will focus on “Power Sharing in Divided Societies” and will examine the challenge of complex diversity, through theoretical and empirical perspectives from Europe, Middle East, Southeast Asia and South America.

09 July - 13 July

ECMI Senior Research Associate Dr. Sergiusz Bober and Junior Research Associate Sonja Wolf are attending the ABS conference in Vienna, Austria and Budapest, Hungary.

15 July - 16 July

ECMI Director Prof. Malloy participates in the 10th Anniversary of the Bolzano/Bozen Recommendations on National Minorities in Inter-State Relations. The event with the title 'New Challenges and Lessons Learned' is organised by the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities. Read more here

28 August - 29 August

Visit by Ambassador Lamberto Zannier, the High Commissioner on National Minorities to the European Centre for Minority Issues.

01 September - 09 September

Our National Minorities and Border Regions Summer School takes place, this time, in Brussels! Read more

15 September

ECMI Director Prof. Dr. Tove H. Malloy will be speaking at a seminar in Frauenbruecke Ost-West Herbstforum, Nordseeakademie Leck.

19 September

Research Assistant Viktoria Martovskaya, and Junior Research Associate Sonja Wolf will be attending a UNESCO conference of German Schools "Global Citizen 2030”. ECMI will be providing a workshop for students and teachers participating in the conference on citizenship and cooperation.

24 September

Public lecture by Prof. Catherine Poujol on “The Bukharan Jews: 33 years of field research”. The presentation will take place at the Europa Universität Flensburg, Room HEL 065.

27 September

Public lecture by Dr. Peter Kroh on “Minderheitenpolitik als Teil der Erinnerungskultur“. The presentation will take place at the ECMI, Kompagnietor, Schiffbrücke 12, from 17-19 hrs. The presentation will be in German.

28 October - 02 November

ECMI Director Prof. Dr. Tove H. Malloy will be speaking at an NGO workshop on the cultural rights of the Afrikaans in Pretoria, South Africa.

08 November - 09 November

ECMI Director Prof. Dr. Tove H. Malloy will be attending a conference by, the High Commissioner on National Minorities.