The final regional conference of the project “Improvement of human rights and protection of minorities in Southeast Europe” was held from 15th to 17th November 2016 in Tirana. The joint regional project of the Council of Europe and the European Union aims to improve access to the rights of minorities at various levels of government, based on the standards of the Council of Europe in this area and in particular on the basis of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (FCNM) and the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (ECRML).