Institute for Minority Rights

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WHAT WE OFFER

Research/ Consulting Publications

Training

• Research Projects • for GO‘s and NGO‘s • European

Yearbook of
• Research networks •EU-consultation Minority Issues
• Summer School •South Tyrol as
(Master Programme a „Model“ • European
under revision)
Diversity online
Papers

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Training
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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Research

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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Research
Reearch
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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Research

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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Consulting

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

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Publications
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 regional
autonomy“
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 the
area of law, political
science and sociology

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Contact:
Institute for Minority Rights
minority.rights@eurac.edu
+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