What are some of the greatest advantages that AI can offer in minority language contexts? In Q&A#3, Dr. Craig Willis (ECMI) interviews Dr. Aleksandra Oszmianska-Pagett, Chair of the Committee of Experts of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. www.youtube.com/shorts/1zubD...

@eurolang warnt, alle #minorisierten #Sprache sind #bedroht gfbv-voices.org/elen-minderh... @ecmiflensburg.bsky.social, @fuev.bsky.social, @ciemen.bsky.social, @minorityrights.bsky.social, @greens-efa.eu, @juntsxcat.bsky.social, @ehbildu.bsky.social, @isula-corsica.bsky.social

die #FUEN bemängelt das Fehlen der #ladinischen Sprache bei den #OlympischenWinterspielen in den #Dolomiten fuen.org/de/article/F... @31bbd.bsky.social, @euracminorities.bsky.social, @ecmiflensburg.bsky.social, @greens-efa.eu, @sabinazwittergrilc.bsky.social, @olgavoglauer.bsky.social

What are some of the greatest challenges that AI models pose to minority languages? ECMI colleague Dr. Pavlína Heinzová interviews Dr. Iria de-Dios-Flores (Assistant Professor in the Department of Translation and Language Sciences at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. www.youtube.com/shorts/5nhKO...

Women and girls from national minorities often face double discrimination. The new Conversations with Experts episode digs deeper into how gender issues can be mainstreamed in minority protection through the Advisory Committee’s monitoring work. www.ecmi.de/default-titl...

📖 Paper out @epsrjournal.bsky.social (w/ @mscanti.bsky.social/ Maria Ackrén) ➡️ Why do secessionist waves erupt at a specific point in time? We argue that timing often hinges on highly symbolic events signalling a loss of autonomy.

#OpenAccess from @epsrjournal.bsky.social - Lost autonomy triggers and the rise of secessionism - https://cup.org/4pIcbBn - @felixschulte.bsky.social, @mscanti.bsky.social#OpenAccess& Maria Ackrén #FirstView

What triggers independence movements? @felixschulte.bsky.social (ECMI) together with Matthias Scantamburlo (University of Deusto) and Maria Ackrén (Ilisimatusarfik / University of Greenland), examined why independence movements emerge at specific points in time. doi.org/10.1017/S175...

Environmental challenges & minority rights – an often overlooked link. Tune in to the latest episode of ECMI Conversations with Experts www.ecmi.de/default-titl...

In her interview, Dr. Kyriaki Topidi explains why researching the role of national minority women matters, especially in today’s anti-gender climate. www.ecmi.de/infochannel/...

New blog post by our colleagues Dr. Elmira Muratova & Dr. @felixschulte.bsky.social on systematic repression in occupied Crimea: “Thursdays Are for Searches” 👉 konkoop.de/index.php/da... #Crimea #CrimeanTatars #HumanRights

Why Are Minority Children in Northern Greece Trapped in a Broken Education System? Read our newest ECMI Minorities Blog. This contribution is written by Aylin Kara Osman and Olgun Akbulut. www.ecmi.de/infochannel/...

ECMI Project “Promoting Intercultural Dialogue through Digital Storytelling,” awarded in the Student Minority Projects Challenge 2025. www.ecmi.de/infochannel/... picture credits: Website Autonome Provinz Südtirol

New volume co-edited by the ECMI and the University of the Basque Country brings fresh thematic and geographic perspectives to the study of minority-language media, building on foundational works in the field. www.ecmi.de/infochannel/...

Last week, Dr. Argyro Kartsonaki from the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH) presented at our research seminar her forthcoming book, Designing and Implementing Peace Processes to Prevent Civil War Recurrence. gsnic.wcfia.harvard.edu/publication/...

Elmira Muratova has been supporting the ECMI for quite some time with her expertise on Ukraine and Russian repression against the Crimean Tatars. The data from our pioneering project, which documents these repression events in Crimea, are now available on our website. www.ecmi.de/infochannel/...

New episode of ECMI Conversations with Experts! Viktoria Aygül (ECMI) talks with Dr. Dr. Hakob Matevosyan (ZOiS Berlin) about Russian-speaking communities in Germany and how post-Soviet legacies shape their identity. 🎧 Watch here: www.ecmi.de/default-titl...

🚨 New Dataset on Repression against Crimean Tatars in Russia-occupied Crimea Covers ~700 repression events, 2,000+ individuals, with locations, dates, victim types, repression types, and responsible actors ▶️ Find out more and download the data here www.ecmi.de/research-clu...

How does AI intersect with linguistic diversity? Dr. Iria de Dios Flores, Assistant Professor in the Department of Translation and Language Sciences at @upf.edu presented her research “Artificial Language Models and Minority Languages: Challenges and Opportunities” at the ECMI.

Our colleague, Martin Klatt, contributed to this piece of work (Chapter 23). Together with his colleague, @gabrielaneagu.bsky.social, he explores the constructive role that national minorities can play in cross-border governance coordination. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

💡 How can teaching and learning resources (TLRs) – from textbooks to games – support the maintenance and revitalization of minority languages? 📣 Join our ECMI Online Talk on October 6, where we discuss Teaching and Learning Resources for Linguistic Minorities us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

💡 How can teaching and learning resources (TLRs) – from textbooks to games – support the maintenance and revitalization of minority languages? 📣 Join our ECMI Online Talk on October 6, where we discuss Teaching and Learning Resources for Linguistic Minorities us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🌍 We’re hiring a Web Designer/Developer! The Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe (JEMIE), published by the European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI), is looking for a creative expert to modernise our website and submission platform (Open Journal Systems). bit.ly/46R5vsu

werben in #Berlin für #Minderheitenrechte fuen.org/de/article/F... @stefanseidlerssw.bsky.social, @greens-efa.eu, @fuev.bsky.social, @euracminorities.bsky.social, @ecmiflensburg.bsky.social, @minorityrights.bsky.social, @gfbv.de, @spdfraktion.de, @sabinazwittergrilc.bsky.social, @retps.bsky.social

The new JEMIE Special Issue dives into Teaching & Learning Resources (TLRs) for linguistic minorities, exploring how to produce and share them even where institutional support is limited. www.ecmi.de/JEMIE/index....

Call for Papers for researchers based in Poland or Germany (fully funded by the German-Polish Scientific Foundation) Conference in Warsaw, Poland 5-6 March 2026 Narratives of Europe in uncertain times. Perceptions of Europe in trans-European, national, local discourses and borderlanders’ stories.

National Minorities in Serbia’s ongoing anti-government protests In their recent ECMI Minorities Blog post, Ljubica Djordjević, Katinka Beretka, and Jelena Mihajlov explore minority participation in the ongoing nationwide protests. www.ecmi.de/infochannel/...

Statelessness remains a harsh reality for many Roma in North Macedonia, leading to a lack of rights, lack of recognition, and exclusion from society. As Eugenia Ricciotti highlights in the ECMI Minorities Blog, recent legal reforms are promising but still insufficient. www.ecmi.de/infochannel/...

👍Starting with Volume 23(1), 2024, all of our publications will be included in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI). JEMIE is a fully open-access and free journal: no fees, and full editorial support throughout the process. www.ecmi.de/JEMIE/index....

#Tourismus und #Olympia überrollen #Minderheiten gfbv-voices.org/italien-anpe... @fuev.bsky.social, @euracminorities.bsky.social, @ecmiflensburg.bsky.social, @sabinazwittergrilc.bsky.social, @31bbd.bsky.social, @retps.bsky.social, @greens-efa.eu, @euracling.bsky.social, @overtourism.bsky.social

die #ladinische Minderheit in den #Dolomiten fordert #Sichtbarkeit bei den #olympischen Spielen #MilanoCortina2026 gfbv-voices.org/italien-anpe... @fuev.bsky.social, @euracminorities.bsky.social, @ecmiflensburg.bsky.social, @minorityrights.bsky.social, @culturalsurvival.org

Digital storytelling for intercultural dialogue. In the Denmark–Germany Border region, minorities share 2–5 min stories of identity & belonging. Personal, moving, authentic. www.ecmi.de/multimedia/i...

Anti-minority violence? A new study finds: Military funerals staged as nationalist events in Turkey often precede anti-Syrian riots. www.ecmi.de/infochannel/... Authors: @felixschulte.bsky.social, @dogukankarakus.bsky.social, Ibrahim Gökburun,

Call for Papers: The Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe (JEMIE) is now accepting submissions ✔️ Peer-reviewed ✔️ Open Access ✔️ Indexed (SCOPUS, DOAJ, ERIH+) 🔗 lnkd.in/dzfXkQA2 Questions? [email protected] #MinorityRights #Ethnopolitics #JEMIE #Minoritystudies #LinguisticDiversity

Wir suchen in Nordfriesland lebende Eltern, die Friesisch können: egal, wie gut — und egal, ob sie die Sprache an ihr Kind weitergeben oder nicht. Wichtig ist, dass die Eltern (mindestens) ein Kind haben, das noch nicht zur Schule geht. bit.ly/UmfrageElter...

Hört mal wir sind im Radio 🎧 Falls ihr Eltern in Nordfriesland seid, Friesisch könnt (egal wie gut) und Kinder habt, die noch nicht zur Schule gehen, freuen wir uns riesig, wenn ihr auch an unserer Umfrage teilnehmt: ecmi.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Radio Interview: www.ndr.de/wellenord/po...

📣 Umfrage: wir suchen in #Nordfriesland lebende #Eltern, die #Friesisch können und ein Kind haben, das noch nicht zur Schule geht — egal, ob sie mit dem Kind Friesisch sprechen oder nicht. Die Umfrage dauert ca. 20 Minuten. Bitte teilen! 🔗https://bit.ly/UmfrageElternNordfriesland

📣 Umfrage: wir suchen in #Nordfriesland lebende #Eltern, die #Friesisch können und ein Kind haben, das noch nicht zur Schule geht — egal, ob sie mit dem Kind Friesisch sprechen oder nicht. Die Umfrage dauert ca. 20 Minuten. Bitte teilen! 🔗https://bit.ly/UmfrageElternNordfriesland

Last week, our colleague @ruth_kircher visited the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw and gave a talk about the interconnectedness of #LanguageAttitudes & #SocialJustice. She also met with #ECMI advisory board member Nicole Dołowy-Rybińska, who is based at the Academy 💬

I was recently interviewed by @ecmiflensburg.bsky.social on how the intercultural paradigm developed by the @coe.int for the management of cultural diversity applies to situations of autochthonous national minorities rather than those involving migrants and refugees: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAcs...

Are you interested in #NorthFrisian sociolinguistics? 🗣️ You are warmly invited to this workshop! 📆 1st October 📍 Danish Library in Flensburg 👉 Attendance is free but registration is required: bit.ly/ECMI_Nordfri... #MinorityLanguages #LanguageAttitudes #LanguageUse

Three excellent papers in our panel for UACES’ @uaces.bsky.social 54th annual conference, in Trento this week. Thanks to Jakob, Lara and Maddi for their fantastic papers on different audiences of minority language media! @ecmiflensburg.bsky.social @midas-press.bsky.social

#SummerSchool "Voices Unheard: The Future of Minority Language Rights". 🗓️ 25 Aug to 1 Sep in Bratislava, Slovakia ⏰ Submit your applications by 30 April 2024! 🔗 lnkd.in/dbvbhJ9 We will support the participation of 3 persons forced to flee conflict zones. All costs covered! #polsky

💡 Explore the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) in our latest issue of Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues. Uncover 30 years of impact, hidden dimensions, and the evolving role in conflict prevention. 🔗 www.ecmi.de/JEMIE/index.... polsky conflictsky

📣 Call for Papers: "Navigating Change. The Resilience of Territorial Autonomy" Workshop 💡Present original theoretical, empirical and/or methodological approaches in territorial autonomy. convened by @felixschulte.bsky.social 🔗 Info: www.ecmi.de/infochannel/... polisky scipol

In early November, I had the opportunity to meet with members of the Åland Parliament and discuss some findings on the resilience and longevity of autonomy arrangements. Many thanks to The Åland Islands Peace Institute for organizing. A short report can be found here: www.ecmi.de/infochannel/...

Marking 80 years since the 'Declaration of Alpine populations,' the latest ECMI Minorities blog post by Mattia Bottino explores the evolution of identities and linguistic rights in Piedmont & AostaValley. edited by @felixschulte.bsky.social 🔗 www.ecmi.de/infochannel/... polisky commsky lingsky

📚 Book series Routledge Advances in Minority Studies (RAMS) is accepting submissions! RAMS is a platform for interdisciplinary and intersectional research on minorities. Publish your research in Anthropology, Law, Politics, Sociology, History, and beyond! 🔗 www.ecmi.de/publications...

What a great workshop on the role of collective emotions in the context of ethnic conflict & conflict dynamics – despite the worst flooding in Flensburg in over 100 years..