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

Call for applications to the international conference

Call for applications to the international conference

Dr Paško Bilić, coordinator of Research Network 18 of the European Sociological Association, invites all interested participants to apply for the international conference Communication and Capital(ism) to be held at the University of Ljubljana from August 28 to 30,...

The meeting of the HRZZ DEVELOPER project

The meeting of the HRZZ DEVELOPER project

On September 20, 2025, a meeting of the HRZZ project "Digital Data, Infrastructures and Development" (DEVELOPER) was held in the library of the Institute. The participants discussed upcoming work activities in the second and third project years, particularly focusing...

Overview of CULTMED 2024

Overview of CULTMED 2024

In 2024, the Department of Culture and Communication at IRMO began work on the four-year project CULTMED – Interdisciplinary Research of Cultural and Media Policies and Practices: Developmental and Democratic Potentials. Two centres were established as part of the...

IRMO aktualno „One step forward, two steps back: participatory governance and the new directions of democratization of the cultural system in Croatia – experience 15 year of operation of Pogon – Zagreb Center for Independent Culture and Youth”

IRMO aktualno „One step forward, two steps back: participatory governance and the new directions of democratization of the cultural system in Croatia – experience 15 year of operation of Pogon – Zagreb Center for Independent Culture and Youth”

In the latest issue of IRMO Aktualno, Dr. Ana Žuvela, associate on the CULTMED project, examines the processes of democratizing the cultural system in Croatia through participatory governance practices, using the example of Pogon – Center for Independent Culture and...

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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.

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