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Joelle Farchy

Joelle Farchy, Professor of sciences of the information and the communication, is part of a legal University department of University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne and of a research center in economy, discipline in which she began her course. The multi-disciplinary approach is a strong characteristic of her scientific activity. Collaborations of research were committed with researchers in information, communication, as well as legal experts and sociologists (reports and scientific papers in common, publishing coordination). Regarding the intellectual property, economics brought a cross perspective that seemed particularly fruitful. This multi-disciplinary approach is still in progress in the educational sphere. From an institutional point of view, this approach led her to participate first of all in the activities of the SFSIC (French company of information and communication sciences), then to the Editorial committee of a communication review (Hermes, published by the CNRS (national center for scientific research) and to the scientific Council of a legal review (Lamy, Immaterial’s right). Another strong characteristic of Joelle Farchy’s activities and researches in applied economics communication is that she work closely and positively with the academic advances and the professional world. Her role at the French Institute of communication (partnership INA - Paris1), at the upper Council of the literary and artistic property (meeting of several tens of culture and media professional representatives under the supervision of the Culture and Communication Ministry) or at the National Commission for Data Protection and Liberties (CNIL) illustrate this constant interaction. The creation in 2010 of the EMNS (School of the media and the digital of the Sorbonne), combining multidisciplinarity, teaching, studies and research, media professionals and academics, embodies a long-standing commitment.

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Indrek Ibrus

Indrek Ibrus is a professor of media innovation at Tallinn University’s (TLU) Baltic Film, Media, Arts and Communication School (BFM). He is also the head of TLU’s Centre of Excellence in Media Innovation and Digital Culture (MEDIT). Currently his main research area are the innovative reuses of digitised cultural heritage contents, but he also leads research projects on cross-innovation, cross- and transmediality, media and cultural policies. He is the co-editor of “Crossmedia Innovations: Texts, Markets, Institutions” (together with Carlos A. Scolari; Peter Lang, 2012) Dr. Ibrus received his PhD from London School of Economics and Political Science.

Recent publications: Ibrus, Indrek; Rohn, Ulrike; Nanì, Alessandro (2018). Searching for public value in innovation coordination: How Eurovision Song Contest served to innovate the public service media model in Estonia. International Journal of Cultural Studies.

Rohn, Ulrike; Ibrus, Indrek (2018). A Management Approach to Transmedia Enterprises. In: Freeman, Matthew; Gambarato, Renira (Ed.). The Routledge Companion to Transmedia Studies. London: Routledge.

Gillian Doyle

Gillian Doyle is Professor of Media Economics and Director of the Centre for Cultural Policy Research (CCPR) at the University of Glasgow where she directs Glasgow’s MSc in Media Management. Her research on media economics and policy and on the impact of digitisation has been translated and published in several languages. Gillian is Principal Investigator (PI) on ‘Television Production in Transition: Independence, Scale and Sustainability’, a major research project examining recent transformations in ownership structures in the television production sector funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council (2017-2020). She was PI on a recently completed ESRC –funded project on ‘Multi-platform Media and the Digital Challenge’ which investigated economic and policy aspects of digital media convergence and on a major AHRC-funded project entitled ‘The UK Film Council: A Case Study of Film Policy in Transition’. She was also Lead Investigator on ‘Converging Technologies and Business Models’, a project that forms part of the work programme of CREATe, the RCUK hub for research on Copyright and New Business Models for the Creative Economy. Gillian has carried out and supervised studies on media economics and media policy for the Council of Europe, the European Commission and the OECD. Gillian is former President of the Association for Cultural Economics International (ACEI).

Simon Broek

Simon Broek has more than 10 years of experience in policy research for national (NL) and international clients, such as the European Commission, European Parliament, ETF, Eurofound, Cedefop, UNESCO and the ILO. Simon worked mainly on education policies in the European context. In this, he looked at the European transparency tools (EQF, EQAVET, ECVET etc.); innovation in education practices (OER, digital learning environments), and transnational mobility. In the field of culture, Simon evaluated the Dutch programme for creative industries, evaluated the Dutch performing arts council and was the main researcher in a study on valorization of humanities research programmes. He is currently involved in an analysis on the state of play of the implementation of the European Research Area. In addition, Simon worked for UNESCO on education issues. Furthermore, Simon publishes about his studies in peer-reviewed journals, is member of the editorial board of ETF, Thematic coordinator of the E-Platform for Adult Learning in Europe (EPALE) and assessed project proposals as Erasmus+ expert. He has a background in Philosophy.