The Unit’s Aims
• To build and enjoy a strong public and professional profile which would be respected for its various key contributions, not just at local, but at international level.
• To unravel the links between health and lifestyle and to create an effective bridge between research and practice/implementation. The development of effective qualitative & quantitative methods is essential to achieving this objective.
• Through a focus on evidence, the Unit would be active in developing evaluation strategies to assess the value of health promotion initiatives in community settings.
Main Projects:
• Ethnic Minorities in Cyprus
• HIV/AIDS
• Diabetes

• academic course in Islamic and oriental studies
• language courses in Arabic, Turkish, Persian and German
• lecture series and conferences on oriental issues
• scholarships for students from oriental countries
• information centre / Islamic Orient

1. Research Projects on intercultural and comparative issues in the following fields of research
• Modernity and Technology in an intercultural perspective.
The expected outcome is the analysis of different cultural concepts and approaches to modernity and technology from a southern perspective.
• Reactions of civil society to the challenges of globalization in a comparative perspective
Research will focus on the role of civil society in an increasingly connected world with special emphasis on “southern“ countries and the uneven relationships between North and South.
2. (Co-)organisation of conferences and lectures

• Projects and studies in relation to the conflict in Bosnia-Herzegovina, in 2002 completion of projects on human rights violations in Kosovo and on temporary protection in Europe. • Collaboration with the Development Co-operation Department and the Human Rights Department of the Austrian Ministry for Foreign Affairs, research projects on human rights and democratization and a major study on integrating human rights into Austrian development co-operation. • The BIM serves as national RAXEN Focal Point, reporting to the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC). • Service Centre for Human Rights Education: established in 1997, followed in November 2001 by another Service Centre for Civic Education. • Legal research projects on the analysis of national and international measures to fight human trafficking. • In fall 2002, the institute was mandated to carry out “Twinning Projects”. The projects support candidate and neighboring countries in implementing the acquis c

• youthNET SEE
Long-term project aiming at the development of youth policy and co-operation as contributions towards tolerance and understanding in Southeast Europe.
• youthNET CIS
Initiative towards enhancing co-operation between the European Union and the neighboring countries in East Europe-Russia, Belarus, Ukraine.
• Training of Trainers / YOUTH
The course consists of three seminars and a supervised practical assignment.
Tolerance Campaign in FYROM
Partner of British Council advice to youth policy development.
• International School Partnerships
Since 1990 we initiate, consult and support school partnerships with countries all over the world - more that 4500 projects.
• Education for Global Citizenship
Pupils, teachers, NGOs and educational experts from Austria, Italy, the Netherlands, Cameroon and Chile jointly develop pedagogical approaches and methods for global education.
• EURED – Peace Education in Europe
Co-initiator of the UNESCO/EURED teacher training cour

The IMZ organizes numerous events like markets, screenings, workshops, festivals and competitions and manages a database compilation of worldwide information on audio-visual music and dance programmes. Main activities are: The yearly Avant Première Music + Media Market Berlin, an international trade fair and expert’s forum for professionals in the cultural film industry. Avant Première brings together around 500 market players providing exclusive networking and business opportunities along with customised matchmaking, co-production and pitching formats. The IMZ Academy, an initiative that brings together professionals in the field of cultural film production, fostering intensive experience exchange, hands-on knowledge transfer and development of industry-specific skills for the next generation. Workshops, seminars and discussions providing in-depth information on current market moves or like-minded working groups collaborating on crucial subject matters to encourage a cross-disciplinary dialogue. Worldwide Music Film Festivals curated by the IMZ, like the yearly open-air Music Film Festival in front of the Vienna City Hall – the biggest and most successful event of its kind. Competitions like dance screen, one of the most important international festivals for dance films, or the Semi-Final Judging for the International Emmy® Awards are organized by the IMZ. Non-commercial film distribution via the initiatives “dance screen on tour” as well as “World music films on tour”, are aiming at bringing these genres to a wider public.

Centre for Foreign Policy Studies:
- Security Policy in a changing European environment,
• From Europe to EU-rope. National and community policies,
• Regions out of Europe: the Far East, the Middle East, the Mediterranean
• Russia and Central Europe,
• Hungary and its Neighbours,
• National identity and foreign policy,
• Culture as a dimension of foreign policy - cultural foreign policy and its options after the East-West conflict
Centre for Central European Studies:
Cultural foreign policy and national identity
• Transition and ethnicity
• New frameworks in the interpretation of national and ethnic identity in Central Europe
• Settlements and regions populated by minority Hungarians in the Carpathian Basin in the 20th century
• Discourses of the Hungarian political and economic elite in 19th and 20th centuries
• The concept of civil society in the Romanian press after 1989
• Quality concepts in Hungarian education in Romania.

Cafebabel.com revolutionizes European media through participatory journalism, providing a unique platform of expression for all citizens. Café babel.com’s aim is to stimulate and develop European public opinion through two distinct but closely related missions. The online magazine – cafebabel.com – offers every week analyses of current affairs from a unique, European perspective. Secondly, at grassroots level café babel’s network, actively promotes this perspective through debates, conferences and other events organized in towns and cities across Europe.

• Organizing conferences, workshops, seminars;
• Analyzing current world politics;
• Research project on “failed states”
• Organizing lectures;
• Training course for Iraqi diplomats.

• "C-nergia: the non profit e-collaboration tool".
C-nergia encompasses all the knowledge management applications for modern communities and organizations, thus allowing CSOs to collaborate and share experience with other organizations and improve management practices by using state-of-the-art technologies over the web and adequate tools.
• DARE
The design and implementation of our own "Development Awareness Raising & Education - DARE" Methodology for organizing Seminars, Workshops, Trainings and Information activities.
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ct.youth is a network that provides a human and electronic platform for communication, networking and volunteering for young people living in the broader Mediterranean region including, South-East Europe. For more information please click here.