PECEDE - OUR PARTNERS

The project PECEDE (Platform for an Enriching Culturally and Ethnically Diverse Europe) is run in cooperation with the Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative (LGI, Budapest, Petra Kovacs). It is co-financed by the European Commission, the Open Society Institute and the European Academy, Bolzano/Bozen.

OSI-Budapest Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative P.O. Box 519 1397 Budapest, HUNGARY

tel.: (36-1) 327-3104 fax: (36-1) 327-3105 eMail: LGIresearch@osi.hu url: http://lgi.osi.hu/

EURAC has contacts with various non-profit, non-governmental organisations all over Europe which in one way or another deal with the languages and cultures of minority groups. Most of them are part of a network called COMIR - Consortium of Minority Resources.

 is an internet-based cooperative project which aims at promoting the free flow of information and dialogue in the field of ethnic relations, multicultural politics and minority rights. COMIR aims to establish a clearing house of information and activities relevant to Europe (OSCE region) in order to support democratic governance of multiethnic and multinational societies.

The PECEDE network so far consists of:

	the European Academy (EURAC, research department "Minorities and Autonomies", Bozen, Italy)
	the Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative (LGI, Budapest, Hungary); promoting Local Government, Public Policy and Public Administration Reform in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union
	the Open Society Institute (OSI, Budapest, Hungary)
	the Eurpean Bureau for Lesser Used Languages (EBLUL, Brussels, Belgium) with its network of 14 national offices in the respective EU member states
	the European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI, Flensburg, Germany)
	the Minority Electronic Resource (MINELRES, Riga, Latvia)
	the Center of Documentation and Information on Minorities in Europe - Southeast Europe (CEDIME-SE, Greece)

Others might be invited to join at a later point.