Institute for Minority Rights

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Institute for Minority Rights

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Consulting PublicationsResearch/Training

• Research Projects

• Research networks

• Summer School(Master Programmeunder revision)

• EuropeanYearbook of Minority Issues

• EuropeanDiversity onlinePapers

• for GO‘s and NGO‘s

•EU-consultation

•South Tyrol asa „Model“

WHAT WE OFFER




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Summer School on Human Rights, Minority Rights and

Diversity Management

(www.eurac.edu/summerschool)

Former Master on European Integration and Regionalism (currently under

revision)

Five modules (2 weeks each):

• The Enlarged European Union - Introduction (Graz)

• Law of the European Union (Luxembourg)

• Governance, Public Administration Reform and Economics (Zagreb)

• Regional Affairs: Policies, Structures and Management (Barcelona)

• Human Rights, Minorities and Diversity Management

(Bozen/Bolzano)

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Research

Human and Minority Rights in the Life Cycle of Ethnic

Conflicts “MIRICO”

(www.eurac.edu/mirico)

• FP6 Project

• Research on the Union’s future role in the area of conflict

management and nation building• Defining the European Concept of “Diversity” and the role of

fundamental rights

• Western Balkans as a case study




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EURASIA-Net

Europe-South Asia Exchange on Supranational (Regional)

Policies and Instruments for the Promotion of Human

Rights and the Management of Minority Issues (FP7)

(www.eurac.edu/eurasia-net)

• FP7 project

• Regional cooperation and supranational mechanism Europe(Council of Europe) and South Asia

• Role of SAARC

• Study visits, summer schools, conferences

• Publications and reports

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Reearch

Research

New Minorities

(www.eurac.edu/Org/Minorities/IMR/Projects/integration.htm)

• Legal Inclusion for Social Integration

To complement other research in the field of social exclusion

To develop common legal indicators to assess and discuss challenges and trends in the

field of social exclusion

To create standardized and comparable data between Member States

• MigrAlp (Migration in North- and South Tyrol)

To compare migration North South Tyrol

To develop indicators of successful integration at local level

To promote anti-discrimination and diversity to society (role playing and

ad hoc trainings)




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Minority Rights Information System

(www.eurac.edu/MIRIS)

• Bi-lingual database on minority rights (EN and language

of the state concerned)

• Over 4.300 documents

• Promoting the development of minority rights standards

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European Association of Daily Newspapers

in Minority and Regional Languages (MIDAS)• Over 45 million people in the EU speak an ‘unofficial’ language

• MIDAS brings together over 30 dailies which represent 13 minority

communities and a pool of over 3 million readers

• Politically independent, non-profit association for minority press

Consulting




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Publications

• European Yearbook of Minority Issues (EYMI)

„The EYMI has become a lighthouse both for

policymakers as well as for academia“ Prof. DDr. Rainer Hofmann, former president of the Council of Europe‘s FCNM-Advisory Board

• “European Diversity and Autonomy Papers” (www.eurac.edu/EDAP)

„The EDAPs are an important online stop for the

European debate on cultural diversity and regionalautonomy“Dr. Frank Hoffmeister, Legal Service of the European Commission

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Collaborators

A dozen of hand-selected

experts originating from 7

countries and working in 3

languages

People with a distinguished

academic background in thearea of law, political

science and sociology



Contact:


[email protected]

+39 0471 055200

European Academy of Bolzano

Viale Druso 1

39100 Bolzano Italy

Tel +39 0471 055 055

Fax +39 0471 055 299

www.eurac.edu

Documents

Institute for Minority Rights