The international Holocaust research project EHRI is to be based in the Netherlands, broadcaster NOS reported on Friday.

Education Minister Eppo Bruins is in Poland this weekend for the formal launch of the plann to provide a permanent home to the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure – a network of 27 organisations across Europe, Israel, and the US.

The EHRI, established in 2010, is currently coordinated by the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam, which now becomes its permanent base.

The Netherlands will allocate €300,000 a year for the next 10 years for the centre, which is funded by EU member states.

“Although EHRI’s primary impact is scientific, it also advances a wider social and political agenda,” the centre states on its website.

“The recent rise of anti-Semitism, xenophobia, and aggressive nationalisms demonstrates that Holocaust research is never a purely academic concern, but a prerequisite for open and non-discriminatory societies across Europe and beyond.”