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It has also helped the European Dialogue, the event will bring to establish the ECMI as an active and ANNUAL SUMMER SCHOOL together both scholars and practitioners visible player within the realm of media-re- VOICES UNHEARD: in the field and will serve as a further boost lated research, including the leadership CHALLENGES AND FUTURE OF for strategic cooperation between the of an EU COST Action app. [...] 16 17 EQUALITY & INCLUSION ND EREE STO C A C Â R A THE FRAMEWORK CONVENTION AND THE NATIONAL MINORITIES: BENEFICIARIES WITHOUT BENEFITS? THE ECRML IN STALEMATE? The Framework Convention on the Protection of National Minorities has Since the early 1990s, when the momentum a vaunted history of now more than : L for the codification of European standards 25 years. [...] Although Although frequently relatively small in a conclusion of the project on the role of the importance of sports clubs for mi- media for the revitalization of minority norities from the sociopolitical point of demographic sense, minority communities languages, an initiative implemented view has been the focus of the broader together with the University of the Basque academic community, languag. [...] In terms of the new thematic lines and linguistic landscapes of relevant concerning MLM journalism, the role of sport clubs, through the creation of Cluster is to follow those dynamically evol- journalists in the process of the digitaliza- a scale allowing us to assess how prom- tion of minority language newspapers inent minority identity markers are in ving and highly contextual organizational wi. [...] Drawing the current state of the CoE’s two main on this, the ECMI has also placed a special instruments for national minorities, the With regards to the EU, the ECMI will begin emphasis on involving children and young Framework Convention for the Protection a study of how EU enlargement in the people in its work.