Welcome
Welcome on the website of the Knowledge Center on Cultural- and Media Participation.
The Knowledge Center on Cultural- and Media Participation is an interuniversity and interdisciplinary consortium supported by the Flemish government. More specifically, this interdisciplinary and interuniversity consortium consists of the following three research groups spread across two universities :
- Research Group CuDOS, Department of Sociology at Ghent University
- Research Group TOR, Department of Sociology at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- Research Group SMIT, Department of Communication Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The Knowledge Center on Cultural- and Media Participation combines research questions from various (sub)domains within cultural policy. The research program is clustered in the following research domains:
- Participation Survey (all research teams, coordination & methodology: UGhent – Department of Sociology - Research group CuDOS)
- Art and cultural heritage (UGhent – Department of Sociology - Research group CuDOS)
- Disadvantaged groups and social and cultural participation (VUB – Department of Sociology – Research group TOR )
- Local cultural participation (VUB – Department of Sociology – Research group TOR)
- Media and digital participation (VUB – Department of Communication – Research group SMIT)