Our work
04.06.2019The FUEN
- represents the interests of the European minorities – on regional, national and in particular on the European level.
- works together with the European Union, the Council of Europe, the OSCE and the United Nations as well as with other stakeholders within the field of the European minorities
- holds consultative status at the United Nations
- holds participatory status at the Council of Europe
- is a full member of the European Civil Society Platform for Multilingualism established by the European Commission
- is a participant in the Fundamental Rights Platform
- organises each year the largest gathering of autochthonous minorities and language groups, the FUEN Congress with more than 200 participants
- has six working groups with annual meetings: for the German, Slavic, Turkic and Hungarian minorities, for nations without a kin-state, and also an education working group
- is the coordinator of the Minority SafePack European Citizens’ Initiative, a European Citizens’ Initiative for the rights of autocthonous national minorities and languge groups in th EU, which has obtained 1,123,422 valid signatures and passed the national threshold in 11 Member States of the European Union
- runs several long-term projects such as the project “Dialogue for a Stable Future” - Minorities in the Caucasus and Minorities in the Western Balkans
- organises conferences like the Forum of Minority Regions and the Minority Media Forum
- organises the European football championship of minorities, EUROPEADA.
COMMUNIQUÉ DE PRESSE
- FUEN Congress 2024 will take place in Husum/Hüsem
- What do minorities expect from the European Union? Read the FUEN EU Elections Manifesto!
- Minorities without a mother state come together in Spreewald/Błota
- Annual Conference of the FUEN Education Working Group: Focus on the primary level
- The Forum of the Regions goes to Donostia-San Sebastián
- Challenges of primary education to be discussed at the Education Working Group’s annual meeting in Helsinki
- FUEN TAG held its first online meeting in 2024
- The ongoing war in Ukraine forces the Crimean Tatars to withdraw from EUROPEADA 2024
- 100 days to UEFA EURO 2024: FUEN presented EUROPEADA at BMI’s event
- This is the beginning: minority experts from all over Europe answer FUEN's call