European Centre for Minority Issues

ECMI was established in 1996 by the governments of Denmark, Germany, and Schleswig-Holstein. The centre is governed by a board composed of nine members: three from Denmark, three from Germany, one representative from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, one from the Council of Europe and one from the European Union. His successor professor Marc Weller led the centre from 1999 until 2009. Tove Malloy was then the director until 2019 and since March 2020, the political scientist Vello Pettai is the Director of the ECMI . == Research ==

The centre is organized into 6 research clusters (Conflict and Security, Culture and Diversity, Danish-German Minority Issues, Equality and Inclusion, Justice and Governance, Politics and Civil Society). The Danish-German cluster was the most recently added and provides a renewed focus on the border region and its minorities. As of 2025, the Centre lists 15 researchers on its website; 7 senior researchers, 2 postdoctoral researchers and 6 researchers. The Centre employs a core staff and also hosts visiting fellows and visiting research associates. ==Publications==

Over the years, the European Centre for Minority Issues has produced a number of Monographs, Reports, Working Papers and Issue Briefs, as well as the peer-reviewed online open access journal, Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe (JEMIE), in addition to co-editorship (with EURAC Bozen) of the flagship publication European Yearbook of Minority Issues. The goal of this publication effort is to increase the awareness and dissemination of topics on minority issues, as well as to encourage further research in this field. Since 2019, the centre has published a scientific blog, the ECMI Minorities Blog, currently edited by Sergiusz Bober and Felix Schulte. == Events ==

Since 2011, the ECMI has organised an annual summer school on national minorities, moving location each year. Recent editions have taken place in Brussels (2018), Berlin (2019), Flensburg (2020 and 2021), the Basque Country (2022), Belgrade (2023), Bratislava (2024), Tallinn (2025) and is set for Flensburg in 2026. Many editions of the summer school have been co-organised and co-financed with the Coppieters Foundation. The centre also organises academic workshops and conferences in Flensburg and further afield. In 2011 it was one of the organising hosts of the 13th edition of the International Conference on Minority Languages which was held between Flensburg and Sonderburg. ==See also==