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Current Research Programme (since 2007)

The current research programme is entitled Promotion of Cultural Identities and the Process of Croatian Integration into the European Union. It encompasses four projects implemented by the Department for Culture and Communication itself, the Faculty of Philosophy Rijeka and the Faculty of Philosophy Zagreb. The list of projects included in the programme:

Cultural Diversity, Intercultural Communication and Digital Culture

The outset of the project hypothesis is: cultural diversity, intercultural communication and the rapid development of digital culture are resources leading towards knowledge societies. This is to be proven scientifically by researching the different characteristics of their interconnection / interrelation. Monitoring and defining the development and the use and impact of digital culture in the context of cultural diversity and intercultural communication, will provide new insight into their interdependence.

Project Description

Chief Researcher:

IMO Project Collaborators:

External Collaborators:

  • Kruno Martinac, PhD (Melbourne)
  • Joost Smiers, PhD (Utrecht)
  • Hajrudin Hromadžić, PhD (Zagreb-Rijeka)
  • Helena Popović (University of Zagreb)

Global Influences and the Local Cultural Changes

Basic aims of this research include a definition of (own) cultural space which coincides and communicates with global and European trends; affirmation of cultural identities as a key frame of reference of cultural integration, and discussion of cultural integration as an unavoidable process which may provide for a future (desirable) cultural development.

Project Summary and Hypothesis

Chief Researcher:

IMO Project Collaborators:

External Collaborators:

  • Dona Kolar Panov, PhD (Skopje)
  • Milena Dragičević Šešić, PhD (Belgrade)
  • Melita Richter Malabotta, PhD (Trieste)
  • Kisztina Keresztely, PhD (Budapest)
  • Emilian Kawalski, PhD (Edmonton)

Previous Research Programmes

The Department's long term research supported by the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sports (MSES) in the previous period included:

Within the framework of the above listed projects and their research focus a number of research activities have been compleated in cooperation with other partners or funders. The following is a list of projects which were conducted by the Department. The list also includes projects that were carried out by the Department's members, both in a capacity of project coordinators (for the Department's projects), and in a consulting and expert capacity for commissioned projects.