This page focuses on the current project of IRMO’s Department for Culture and Communication CULTMED – Interdisciplinary Research on Cultural and Media Policies and Practices: Developmental and Democratic Potentials (December 31, 2023 – December 31, 2027), funded by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan 2021-2026, NextGeneration EU program.
CULTMED focuses on research related to the development of culture and cultural policy, media and media policy in Croatia and defines the local, regional, national, European and global environment of Croatian culture and media. The project aims to establish the necessary structural conditions for ongoing research in the fields of culture and media by setting up two centres of excellence: the Centre for Cultural Policy Research, Development and Cooperation (CULTURELINK) and the Centre for Media Sociology and Digital Society (CEMEDIG). These centres will also engage external collaborators who will be actively involved in the centres’ activities.
By building such a framework, the project seeks to improve the sustainability, visibility, and systematic long-term approach to cultural and media research. The two centers will provide the communication infrastructure needed for the implementation of the planned activities during the project duration and ensure long-term monitoring of research in these areas beyond the four-year project cycle
This page also contains information on other current and completed projects carried out within the Department for Culture and Communication, an archive of conferences organized by the Department and the Culturelink Network, as well as selected scholarly monographs published by the Department’s researchers.
News – Culture and Media
Members of the DEVELOPER project at the Faculty of Political Science workshop
Members of the DEVELOPER project, including Dr Jaka Primorac, Dr Emina Bužinkić and Dr Paško Bilić, participated on February 18th at the workshop of the DigSolidar project – Solidarity practices in conditions of insecurity: platformization and digital work led by Dr...
Final Events of the CresCine Project Held at the Berlinale
As part of the Berlinale 2026 film festival, the European research project CresCine, aimed at increasing the international competitiveness and cultural diversity of the film industry in small European markets, organised a series of events marking the conclusion of the...
CresCine at Berlinale 2026: Presentation of the Project’s Final Results and the State of European Film Volume 3
As part of Berlinale 2026, the European research project CresCine, which focuses on strengthening the international competitiveness and cultural diversity of the film industry in European small markets, is organising a series of events to mark the conclusion of the...
SAVE THE DATE: Culturelink Guest Lecture Series – Dr Eleonora Redaelli: Invisible Cultural Policy in America
As part of the CULTMED project, CULTURELINK - Centre for Research in Cultural Policy, Development and Cooperation, invites you to the seventh lecture in the Culturelink Guest Lecture Series. The lecture will take place on Thursday, 26 February 2026, at 16h, in the...
Overview of Work on the CULTMED Project in 2025
During 2025, the project CULTMED – Interdisciplinary Research of Cultural and Media Policies and Practices: Developmental and Democratic Potentials conducted intensive scholarly research activities that resulted in a number of publishing, and networking activities,...
Dr. Jaka Primorac publishes a text on the Croatian film industry in the new issue of the Croatian Film Chronicle
The new issue of the Croatian Film Chronicle (122–123/2025) features “A Portrait of the Croatian Film Industry” by Dr. Jaka Primorac, a collaborator on the CULTMED project and head of the IRMO team within the CresCine project. The text is a translation and adaptation...
IRMO Representatives Participated in a Discussion on the Future of Open Knowledge
On Tuesday, 27 January 2025, at the MaMa club in Zagreb and online, the event “Open Knowledge – Publications, Platforms and Movements” was held, organised by the Multimedia Institute, HrW, and the Open GLAM Wikimedia initiative. The program included project...
Head of the Centre for Sociology of Media and Digital Society (CEMEDIG) participated in a round table of the Parliamentary Committee
The Head of the Centre for the Sociology of Media and Digital Society (CEMEDIG), Dr. Paško Bilić, participated on 20 January 2026 in a round table of the Parliamentary Committee on Information, Informatization and Media, organised on the topic of the European Media...
Announcement of the forthcoming edited volume: Creative and Cultural Work in Europe (Routledge)
The book Creative and Cultural Work in Europe, published by the renowned international publisher Routledge, will be released soon. The volume is edited by Bård Kleppe (Telemark Research Institute, Norway), Jaka Primorac, research associate on the CULTMED project,...
Researchers from the Culture and Communication Department published a scholarly paper on democratizing cultural policy through participatory governance
Associates from the Culture and Communication Department and researchers on the CULTMED project, Dr Dea Vidović and Dr Ana Žuvela, are the authors of the scholarly chapter "Democratising Cultural Policy Through Participatory Governance," published in the edited volume...
CresCine launches Box Office Simulation Tool
The European project CresCine, dedicated to strengthening the international competitiveness and cultural diversity of the film industry in small European markets, has introduced the Box Office Simulation Tool, a new free interactive resource that allows users to...
Barbara Lovrinić Higgins Defends PhD Dissertation on Digital Cultural Heritage and Cultural Policies
The Department for Culture and Communication is pleased to announce that on 23 December 2025 our associate, Barbara Lovrinić Higgins, successfully defended her PhD dissertation entitled Re-working Cultural Memory and Heritage in the Digital Age: Cultural Policies for...
CEMEDIG CENTER
CEMEDIG – Centre for Sociology of Media and Digital Society
The CEMEDIG Center promotes and directs the research of the Department of Culture and Communications in the field of media sociology, a special branch of sociology characterized by interdisciplinary openness to related disciplines in the field of social sciences and humanities. This particularly applies to economically oriented topics, such as the political economy of the media, and legal and political topics, such as media regulation. In the context of digitization, the term digital sociology is often used as a term close to media sociology, and the focus is on specific development topics such as data infrastructures, platforms, digital data, digital media literacy, and data justice.
CULTURELINK CENTER
CULTURELINK – Centre for Research in Cultural Policy, Development and Cooperation
CULTURELINK Centre was established in 2024 as a result of IRMO’s long-term engagement in coordinating the Culturelink Network. The Centre aims to build on and further develop IRMO’s affluent research repository and decades-long commitment to coordinating the global cultural network (culturelink.org) for research and collaboration in the field of cultural development, which gathered more than 2000 institutional and individual members from all continents since its establishment in 1989. Culturelink Centre’s work and activities will provide an organizational and infrastructural framework for the Department of Culture and Communication national and international research partnerships and collaborations c contributing to the wider outreach and better visibility of the Department’s research results.
