Similar to fashion- industery, mix & match give a longer duration for any ongoing and a broad subject to research; interacting the variables of time, ethnics, and belief systems could have a long lasting outcome. 

Hello Claus,

I would check lists of founded projects by important research founding insitutions - like DFG, EU-Media, and similiar, and write as well requests to Universities with departments in that field. Would be a good chance to introduce our SRN to these departments too and perhaps initiate these kind of research.

thank you Kerstin, the problem is that this means going through the databases of 28 countries within the EU, write dozens of letters and so on. We need someone to conduct this kind of research for us (and we don't have the money to pay for it) maybe there is a general European database of funded research projects, but I doubt it. best wishes

Hello Claus,

Just to let you know, there exists a database for EU-funded research projects (some of them dealing with cinema). It's free access online on the DGResearch-website.

Try: http://cordis.europa.eu/projects/home_fr.html

Be aware, other EU-funded projects exist under other DGs' programmes. Usually, they are not proprely research projects, but some can involve research challenges.

For more details, go to http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/index_fr.php  and then choose Media (other tabs may work, too).

It should be in open access, too.

I hope it can help.

Serge

hi there, EU media is the biggest, this link might help you aswel to find different projects and forums http://www.cartoon-media.eu/

Hi there, look at this: 

The 8th Screenwriting Research Network (SRN) International Conference – Final Call

Deadline for abstracts Monday 2nd March 2015

The 8th Screenwriting Research Network (SRN) International Conference will take place at the University of London, UK on Thursday 10th to Saturday 12th September 2015.

It is organised by a committee grouped around the London Screenwriting Research Seminar – the University of Bangor, the University of East London, The University of Greenwich and Royal Holloway, University of London.

The key theme of this year’s conference is Screenwriting: Text and Performance.

We invite discussion about screenwriting as process and practice, and how it engages with and can be understood in relation to text and performance across a wide field of media and practices, including film, television, games, online, transmedia and other digital platforms. We are particularly interested in abstracts for presentations on the following topics:

Interpreting screenplays – how do producers, directors, actors work with screenplays?

How screenplays affect and invoke performance?

What can performance reveal about writing screenplays or screenplay structure? Screenwriting and literature

Screenplays and screenwriting by authors best known in another field

Case studies on individual writers or texts

We would also like to invite abstracts for presentations on (but not limited to) the following topics:

National traditions of screenwriting and storytelling

Different screenwriting practices and formats

Historical perspectives on screenwriting and screenplays

Screenwriting, the screenplay and different production structures

Screenwriting and adaptation

Practice based research in screenwriting

Screenwriting for television, games and animation

Screenwriting for new media forms, online, transmedia etc.

Please send abstracts (250-300 words) as a word or pdf document, with the email subject heading “SRN Conference abstract” to:[email protected]

Abstracts may be submitted until March 2nd 2015. Earlier submissions are welcome. Remember to state your name, affiliation and contact information. Also include a brief statement (100 words) detailing your publications and/or screenwriting practice.

We aim to let you know by mid April 2015 whether your paper has been accepted. Keynote speakers will be announced early in 2015.

Thanks Laura, it is actually the SRN that is looking for this information, not me individually. We want to make a database of ongoing and finished research projects. best claus