Vienna, 2004

Note: The primary task of the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) is to provide the Community and its Member States with objective, reliable and comparable information and data on racism, xenophobia, islamophobia and anti-Semitism at the European level in order to help the EU and its Member States to establish measures or formulate courses actions against racism and xenophobia.

On the basis of the data collected, the EUMC studies the extent and development of the phenomena and manifestations of racism and xenophobia, and analyses their causes, consequences and effects. It is also the task of the EUMC to work out strategies to combat racism and xenophobia and to highlight and disseminate examples of good practice regarding the integration of migrants and ethnic and religious minority groups in the EU Member States.

The very core of the EUMC's activities is the European Information Network on Racism and Xenophobia (RAXEN). It is designed to collect data and information at national as well as at the European level. This is accomplished via 25 National Focal Points, contracted by the EUMC to collect, coordinate and disseminate national and EU information in close cooperation with the EUMC.

The EUMC was established by Council Regulation (EC) No 1035/97 of 2 June 1997 (OJ L 151, 10 June 1997) and commenced its activities in 1998.

According to its founding regulation the EUMC is to set up and coordinate a European Racism and Xenophobia Network (RAXEN). RAXEN is one of the central tools for the EUMC to achieve its goal in providing the European Union and its Member States with objective, reliable and comparable data (including examples of and models for "good practices") at the European level on the phenomena of racism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism.
 

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Austria		Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Menschenrechte (BIM) Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights, Vienna in cooperation with the Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Wien Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna and the Institut für Konfliktforschung (IKF) Institute of Conflict Research
Belgium		Centre pour l'égalité des chances et la lutte contre le racisme Centrum voor gelijkheid van kansen voor racismebestrijding Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism (CEOOR), Brussels
Denmark		Documentary and Advisory Center on Racial Discrimination - DACoRD, Copenhagen
Finland		Ihmisoikeusliittory Finnish League for Human Rights, Helsinki
France		Agence pour le développement des relations interculturelles (ADRI) Agency for the development of intercultural relations, Paris
Germany		Europäisches Forum für Migrationsstudien European Forum for Migration Studies (EFMS), Bamberg by Gisela Will, Stefan Rühl
Greece		Information and Documentation Centre, Athens By Nasos Theodorides, Ioannis N. Dimitrakopoulos
Ireland		National Consultative Committee on Racism and Interculturalism (NCCRI), Dublin Equality Authority, Dublin
Italy		Cooperazione per lo sviluppo dei paesi emergenti (COSPE) Cooperation for the Development of Emerging Countries, Florence By Fulvio Vassallo Paleologo, Università degli studi di Palermo
Luxembourg		Association de soutien aux travailleurs immigrés (ASTI) Association for the support of immigrant workers, Luxembourg
The Netherlands		University of Leiden, Department of Public Administration, Leiden Anne Frank House, Amsterdam National Federation of Local and Regional Anti-Discrimination Organisations (LV-ADBs), Rotterdam National Bureau against Racial Discrimination (LBR), Rotterdam
Portugal		NUMENA Centro de Investigação em Ciências Sociais e Humanas/Research Center on Human and Social Sciences, Porto Salvo Presidência de Conselho Gabinete do Alto Comissário para a Imigração e Minorias Étnicas, Lisboa by Mónica Catarino, Rubina Freitas
Spain		Movimiento por la paz, el desarme y la libertad (MPDL) Movement for Peace, Disarmament and Liberty, Madrid By Patricia Rojo
Sweden		EXPO Foundation, Stockholm by Paul Lappalainen, Lawyer L.L.M. (Sweden) and Juris doctor (US)
United Kingdom		Commission for Racial Equality (CRE), London