Media, Democracy and European Culture (MEDEC)
The European integration is one of the most important transnational processes in the overall process of globalisation and the most important factor in the post war development of the national welfare societies and democracies in Europe. The EU-project is by now not just an economic project, but has far reaching implications also for the social, political and cultural dimensions of the nation states of Europe. MEDEC is covering two local research priorities with the objective to contribute to knowledge about the interaction between the political agendas of the EU and the social and cultural dimensions related to the European integration. The research perspective is interdisciplinary and transnational and consists of a network of scholars from political science, law, sociology, anthropology, history, language, cultural studies and media studies:
EWED (Europeanization, Welfare and Democracy) related to the research platform 11 at the University of Copenhagen: Welfare and Democracy
MEDEK (Media, Democracy and European Culture) related to the project Europe in Transition that is one of the four priority areas of the University of Copenhagen
The MEDEC project will establish a network consisting of the European studies centres in the ten IARU universities and a multidisciplinary and international network. We are collaborating with the European Commision priority area RECON. We are collaborating with Department for Film Studies, University of St. Andrews. Locally we are collaborating with Centre for European Studies, Lund University and Centre for European Politics, Faculty of Social Sciences and Centre for European Constitutionalization, Faculty of Law - both at The University of Copenhagen.
