Driving Sustainable Climate Transition of Video-On-Demand Platforms at a Time of Transformation (StreamSCAPES)
Funded by: European Union • Horizon Europe
Duration: 2025-2028
PI: Katharine Sarikakis
The overarching aim of the project Driving Sustainable Climate Transition of Video-On-Demand Platforms at a Time of Transformation (StreamSCAPES) is to initiate a new era of thinking and acting in order to make the production, consumption and decision-making processes in the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) sustainable. The focus is on video-on-demand (VOD) platforms, which play a central role within audiovisual and cultural ecosystems.
IP, Discoverability and Partnerships: Reviving the International Promotion of European Values Through European Animation Industry Ecosystem (Anima Mundi)
Funded by: European Union • Horizon Europe
Duration: 2025-2028
PI: Katharine Sarikakis
The overarching goal of Anima Mundi is to awaken the sleeping giant of animation as a popular, promising and potent sector of the CCIs in European diversity and artistic expression, global markets and international cultural relations. Anima Mundi will do so by generating and assessing data on, and addressing, cross-sectoral strengths as well as pervasive gaps in terms of intellectual property (IP), discoverability, and international partnerships in the European Animation Industry Ecosystem (EAIE) that enable or hinder its international promotion.
Specifically, Anima Mundi will (i) provide an interdisciplinary mapping and assessment of the ways in which it is possible to increase the visibility of and access to European animation internationally, (ii) pilot the transformative impact of European Animation to promote EU priorities, culture and fundamental values abroad, by investigating practices and innovative hubs of creativity, with a special focus on children and youth, and (iii) co-test the potential of European Animation to strengthen cooperation among stakeholders involved in the CCIs and to establish strategic alliances with other sectors. To achieve this, a multi-stakeholder team of five academics and eight key stakeholders will work on the project.
Reviving, Boosting, Optimising and Transforming European Film Competitiveness (REBOOT)
Funded by: European Union • Horizon Europe
Duration: 2023-2026
PI: Katharine Sarikakis
Collaboration: Janina Jüngst • Gentiana Ramadani
Be competitive, the industry says! But what does competitiveness in the media and film industry mean? REBOOT (REviving, BOosting, Optimising and Transforming European Film Competitiveness) is working to give a unified answer from researchers, scholars and experts in the field through a 3-year project funded by Horizon Europe (2023-2026). It aims to connect the existing strengths of the European Film Industry, identify and overcome weaknesses, and plan for future competitiveness in the fields of policy, practice and experience.
The project will explore the industry to get the necessary answers about diachronic understandings of the 'competitiveness' and of the 'European' in the European Film Industry. It will look at the institutional context of the EU film industry, will work on the framings and strategies of cinema professionals, and will contribute to the building of future competitiveness.
Communication, Facts and Regulation for European Democracy (FREuDE)
Funded by: European Union • Erasmus+ Capacity Building for Higher Education Project
Duration: 2019-2022
PI: Katharine Sarikakis
Collaboration: Oleksandra Gudkova
Status: Completed
Refugee Education Initiatives II (REIs II)
Funded by: European Union • Erasmus+ Capacity Building for Higher Education Project
Start: 2019-2022
Co-PI: Katharine Sarikakis
Collaboration: Gert Tomita
Status: Completed
Funded by: European Union
Duration: September 2017 – June 2019
PI: Katharine Sarikakis
Collaboration: Krisztina Rozgonyi • Darya Novatorova • Markos Mpadanes
Status: Completed
Jean Monnet Chair of European Media Governance and Integration
Funded by: European Union
Duration: September 2016 – August 2019
PI: Katharine Sarikakis
Collaboration: Wagner Piassaroli Mantovaneli
Status: Completed
Refugee Education Initiatives (REIs)
Funded by: European Union • Erasmus+ Capacity Building for Higher Education Project
Duration: December 2016 – November 2018
Co-PI: Katharine Sarikakis
Collaboration: Yulia Belinskaya • Wagner Piassaroli Mantovaneli
Status: Completed
The Governance of cultural memory through audiovisual broadcast archives: Preservation and accessibility in four European countries
Funded by: FIAT/IFTA
Duration: April 2017 – September 2017
PI: Katharine Sarikakis
Collaboration: Krisztina Rozgonyi • Olga Kolokytha • Izabela Korbiel
Status: Completed