This year, Domowina – the Federation of Lusatian Sorbs, celebrates its 100th birthday. Domowina is a politically independent organisation and umbrella for Sorbian associations in Lower and Upper Lusatia, Germany, and has its seat in Bautzen. It represents the interests of Sorbian people. Today, Domowina…
Kashubian is a unique minority language, spoken only in the north of Poland. It belongs to the group of western slavic languages. A common estimate is that over 300,000 people in Poland are of the Kashubian ethnicity. The most extreme estimates are as low as…
The team of language diversity had a lot of fun on 26 September – the European Day of Languages – in the Sorbian school and meeting centre Bautzen/Budyšin, Germany. ( http://www.sorbisches-gymnasium.de/index.htm ) As a part of the Intercultural Week in the district of Bautzen, the…
From the 5 till 12 August 2012, the annual choir project “Voices of Europe” will take place in Burgenland/Gradišće, Austria. This year, the “Hrvatski akademski club” (http://www.hrvatskicentar.at/deutsch/akademikerklub.htm) – the student organisation of the Burgenland Croats – are the hosts, together with the Youth of European…
From 16 till 24 June, Lusatia will be the host of the EUROPEADA 2012 – the European football championships of the autochthonous, national minorities. The organisers are Domowina – the Federation of Lusatian Sorbs and FUEN, the European umbrella organisation of the over 300 old-established…
The 57th Congress of FUEN, the umbrella organisation of the minorities in Europe, took place the very first time in Russia. From 16-20 May 2012 about 170 participants were the guests of the association of the Germans in Russia in Moscow. One of the main…
From 6-8 May 2012 the kickoff meeting of the follow-up project of RML2future for a European language campaign took place in Padborg (DK) and Flensburg (D). It was the first partner meeting of the new project and was aimed for the partners to get to…
More than 200 school students from 13 Sorbian and bilingual elementary and secondary schools, including the Sorbian grammar school, had come to the large anniverary party of Płomjo (flame) in the German-Sorbian Theatre on Tuesday 24 April 2012. After the birthday cake was cut, the…
In Berlin, in the permanent representation of the Free State of Thuringia a think-tank-meeting took place on 22 February 2012 – with several minority experts, representatives of the European Commission, the Committee of the Regions, the Danish Sydslesvig-Udvalget, the German Bundestag (parliament), the think-tank of…
On Tuesday 24 January 2012, the Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN) organised the second FUEN Parliamentary Lunch Debate 2.0 together with MEP Herbert Dorfmann (EVP) at the European Parliament in Brussels. One of the main subjects was the issue of regional and minority languages….