These "Recommendations to Enforce the Sorbian Minority by Creating a Coherent Cluster of Co-operation, Projects and Institutions" are the first example in the history of European Minorities of an in-depth analysis of state and local allocations, both on the cultural economy and the cultural policy levels, comprising a critical evaluation and a structured recommendation for the future. The study has been commissioned by representatives of the Sorbian people together with the Federal Republic of Germany, the Land Brandenburg and the Free State of Saxony via the Foundation for the Sorbian People at Bautzen. It has been elaborated 2008–2010 by the Institut für kulturelle Infrastruktur Sachsen in the framework of the Collegium Pontes Görlitz-Zgorzelec-Zhořelec, the German-Polish-Czech Institute of Advanced Studies of the Upper Lusatia. Under the guidance of the institute's director Matthias Theodor Vogt nearly hundred experts on minority issues from a dozen countries have been working on the issues. It took some time (and sharp adverse wind from several German institutions, up to now beneficiaries of Sorbian allocations), till the recommendations truly arrived in the midst of the Sorbian people which is the case now at the end of 2012. The European Journal of Minority Issues, feasting its first five years accomplished, publishes the entire study, with the help of the Zittau/Görlitz University, to mark the methodological progress within our academic field.