EUMUS: European Minorities in Urban Spaces: Mutual Recognition, Social Inclusion and Sense of Belonging

Coordination: Dr. Olaf Glöckner, in cooperation with the Center for the Study of the Holocaust and Jewish Literature, Prague (Charles University, main applicant, Dr. Marcela Menachem Zoufala), the Institute of the Middle and Far East of the Jagiellonian University Krakow (Prof. Joanna Dyduch, Prof. Artur Skorek), Birkbeck College/University of London (Dr. Ben Gidley) and Comenius University Bratislava (Prof. Eduard Niznansky)
Duration: 2024-2026
Funding body: EU program Erasmus Plus

EUMES ties on the international project “Euphony: Jews, Muslims and Roma in the 21st Century Metropolises. Reflecting on Polyphonic Ideal and Social Exclusion as Challenges for European Cohesion” (2022-2024). The new project is also primarily dedicated to ethno-cultural and ethno-religious minorities in European (metropolitan) cities, examining their collective narratives, self-images and images of others, integration successes (and setbacks), and in particular their mutual perceptions, interactions and “neighborhoods”.  The focus of the research is on Jewish, Muslim and Roma minorities in and around the urban areas of London, Prague, Krakow, Bratislava and Berlin-Brandenburg. Experiences of discrimination and hostility, collective resilience, cross-group cooperation, solidarity and conflict are compared. With regard to Jewish-Muslim contacts “on the ground”, the focus is also on the extent to which the Hamas massacre of October 7, 2023 and the subsequent Gaza war have affected previous mutual perceptions and contacts. The results of the project will be used to transfer knowledge to both academic institutions and the general public.