The Minority Course 1999 and Peoplesite

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The Minority Course 1999 and Peoplesite



The Minority Course 1999 was successfully carried through from the 4th
to the 17th of July 1999 at Hojskolen Ostersoen in the Danish-German
borderregion. For two weeks 61 young Europeans active in NGOs and
representing 30 different national and cultural backgrounds, minority
as well as majority backgrounds, had the opportunity to discuss the
protection of the rights of the many national and cultural minorities
in Europe.

The project has an attached website with the name Peoplesite,
www.people.hojoster.dk, and the website has now been updated so to
include the results of the 1999 Minority Course alongside the results
of the 1997 and 1998 Minority Courses.

On Peoplesite you will now among other things find:

- 29 articles written by the participants of the Minority Course 1999
on a wide variety of minority related issues. The articles can be
found in the library on Peoplesite, and can also be downloaded from
the section  "Summercourse 1999".

- A debateforum with comments on the above mentioned articles (in the
section "Debate and Chat").

- A gallery of photos taken during the course (in the section
"Summercourse 1999").

- A report on the course dealing with its content and results (also in
the section "Summercourse 1999").

- Profiles of the 61 participants and their NGO.

- Hopefully it will be possible to arrange official chat-events on
Peoplesite in the near future. The editor of Peoplesite welcomes ideas
and suggestions for possible subjects and experts by email at
[email protected]

The Minority Course 1999 was generally a success, and work has already
begun on the planning of the Minority Course 2000. The ambition is to
make the 2000 course a four-week course with one-week excursions to
other regions of Europe with different minority-contexts compared to
the Danish-German borderregion.

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