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2025-12-08
Learn more about PLURILINGMEDIAPLURILINGMEDIA intends to advance collaboration and bring coherence to the field of European media from the perspective of language plurality, encouraging involvement of scholars in related disciplines and facilitating knowledge transfer between academics and practitioners. This incorporates the digitalisation shifts affecting consumption and provision of media, providing opportunities and threats to journalists, as well as influencing policymakers, educators and other stakeholders. Academics working on these topics mostly work on singular linguistic spheres and there remains a deficiency of knowledge transfer across the dimensions of academic discipline, career-stage, geography and industry.
2026-08-13
A New Benchmark for Minority Rights: EU Twinning Project NMPI to Launch in 2027Starting in January 2027, the ECMI will serve as a key partner in a pioneering EU Twinning project: the creation of the “National Minority Policy Index” (NMPI). This three-year initiative aims to provide a novel way of assessing minority policies across European countries. Starting in January 2027, the ECMI will serve as a key partner in a pioneering EU Twinning project: the creation of the “National Minority Policy Index” (NMPI). This three-year initiative aims to provide a novel way of assessing minority policies across European countries. The ECMI will act as the methodological expert for the survey’s design and execution. Additionally, the ECMI is responsible for coordinating the dissemination of the results to vital international stakeholders, such as the Council of Europe, the OSCE, and the European Parliament. We will also collaborate closely with minority organisations, including the Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN).
2026-07-22
ECMI Minorities Blog. Ethno-Solastalgia: Extractive Landscapes and Cultural Survival in Europe’s Minority RegionsGiustina Selvelli
Across Europe, extractive projects linked to mining, energy production, and the green transition continue to reshape landscapes inhabited by minority and Indigenous communities. In regions such as Lusatia in eastern Germany and Serbia’s Timok Valley, mining expansion has contributed to displacement, environmental pollution, and the gradual fragmentation of historically rooted minority communities. Yet the cultural implications of these transformations remain largely overlooked. Focusing on Sorbian- and Vlach-speaking communities affected by lignite and copper extraction respectively, this contribution examines how environmental change can destabilize cultural continuity and forms of belonging in contexts where minority languages, memory, and everyday practices remain closely tied to particular landscapes. To capture the affective dimension of these processes, it introduces the concept of ethno-solastalgia: a form of collective distress emerging when environmental degradation becomes entangled with the erosion of minority cultures and vulnerable languages in Europe’s extractive peripheries.
2026-07-13
📢 Call for Contributions: National Minorities in Moldova & the Path to EU AccessionAre you a researcher focusing on minority politics, legal frameworks, or geopolitical shifts in Eastern Europe?
We are inviting scholars to submit abstracts for our upcoming workshop: "National minorities in Moldova in the context of EU accession".
📍 Where: ECMI Headquarters, Flensburg, Germany
📅 When: 13 November 2026
