Since 2001, ECMI Kosovo has helped write the protections for Kosovo’s communities and worked to make them real in people’s lives.
From Prishtina to Mitrovica North, we work with communities and institutions across Kosovo, combining practical programmes with original research, legal expertise and policy dialogue.
Opening the new ECMI Kosovo offices in Prishtina, December 2022.ECMI Kosovo archive
From legal foundations to everyday access.
ECMI helped prepare Kosovo’s positions on community rights during the Ahtisaari process, contributed to the Constitution’s community-rights provisions, prepared the draft community-rights law and helped draft the Law on the Use of Languages. Read our story ↗
Examples from our record
3,119
diploma applications recorded Mandate beginning March 2023
183
laws reviewed for linguistic consistency By April 2021
103
Serbian-language schools visited 2018 education study
15
municipalities in education-retention work 2022–2024
Our work
Working with people. Finding practical solutions.
We identify barriers with the people affected and work with institutions to resolve them.
At the launch of ECMI Kosovo’s support to Serbian-language education and diploma verification, November 2016.ECMI Kosovo programme archive
Since 2016, ECMI Kosovo has supported the diploma-verification mechanism, having designed its legal route so graduates of Serbian-language institutions in Kosovo can use their qualifications in public employment. We are pleased that our cooperation with IOM, supported by the British Embassy, has been extended through March 2027. Applications are made online through e-Kosova for university and secondary-school diploma verification. For the mandate beginning in March 2023, Commission statistics record 698 positive verifications: 680 university and 18 secondary-school diplomas.
Property and inheritance information through community discussions and university workshops, with particular attention to women and Serbian-speaking communities.
A local recycling model connecting informal waste collectors, municipal services and private operators in Fushë Kosovë/Kosovo Polje. ECMI Kosovo’s contribution combines research, processing equipment, training, a Green Fund Facility and provision of 943 waste containers.
Economic participation, prevention of gender-based violence and safer access to support, building on experience including our 2014–2015 UN Trust Fund programme.
ECMI Kosovo’s cooperation with IOM, supported by the British Embassy, has been extended through March 2027, sustaining support for diploma verification and applicants.
A study of Serbian-language education across secondary schools, the Academy for Applied Studies and the University of Mitrovica North. The report brings secondary and higher education into the same institutional picture.
Sharing experience with young professionals from the Mercator Fellowship on International Affairs, Prishtina, June 2024.ECMI Kosovo programme archive
A place for learning and cooperation.
Students and graduates from Kosovo and abroad contribute to our work and learn through practical experience. Our offices in Prishtina and Mitrovica North are places to exchange knowledge and develop cooperation on minority issues.
Through the EU-funded Cross-border Green Deal, ECMI Kosovo supplied equipment worth €84,740 to public cleaning companies serving Peja, Gjakova, Klina, Istog and Deçan.
ECMI met Kamenica’s mayor on 15 November to advance the municipality’s draft dropout-prevention plan, building on work with school and municipal prevention teams through the UNICEF partnership.
ECMI Kosovo joined the 5 June workshop and signing ceremony for the World Bank-supported campaign through ATRC, preparing property-information work with vulnerable communities, particularly Serbian-speaking communities.
