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IREN started as an idea at a meeting at the University of Louvain la Neuve, Belgium, in January 2003. It has now been approved for funding as a Co-ordination Action under the European Commission's Sixth Framework Programme of Technological Research and Development (FP6), and falls within the framework of the thematic priority 7: "Citizens and Governance in a Knowledge Society", and in research domain No 7: "New forms of citizenship and cultural identities".
Its founding partners are 13 institutions from 10 countries, universities and professional organisations, whose representatives are mainly university teachers and researchers, specialists in radio. They share a common passion for the medium, coupled with a belief that, both as an academic field of study and as a professional practice, radio will benefit from an initiative which links and brings together diverse and often isolated academic research work across Europe.
In the debates on the European public sphere and the role of the media in this process, radio is widely neglected, and this neglect is due, the IREN group argues, to the ‘under-development’ of radio study and research in academic circles. Neither policy neglect nor academic under-development are justified considering the popularity (in audience ratings) of radio across Europe, its importance in listeners’ daily lives, and the medium’s historic and cultural place in European heritage. Radio is, moreover, at the cutting edge of technological convergence if digital broadcasting, mobile telephony and internet radio are taken into account.
The countries represented in the project’s consortium illustrate a range of contexts, from countries where initiatives are already in place to co-ordinate academic activity, such as the French GRER, the UK’s Radio Studies Network, the Nordic radio group at the Nordic Conference for Media and Communication Research, and the Italian initiatives based at the University of Siena, to others where radio study is marginalised within strong media programmes, to yet others where individual scholars are isolated and receive little institutional support.
The disciplines within which radio is studied are richly varied and include the social sciences, cultural studies, economics, history, media and communication studies, journalism, law, linguistics, politics, engineering and performing arts. This variety of approaches has the potential for fruitful inter-disciplinary exchange if the infra-structural conditions can be supplied. What essentially is lacking at present are places and occasions to meet and share viewpoints and findings, as well as networks, databases and publishing outlets. Once this is in place, radio as a subject of study and research can be made more visible for younger generations of undergraduates, post-graduates and post-doctoral scholars.
A programme of seminars and conferences, backed up by this website and a database, began in Bordeaux, April 1-3, 2004, when GRER’s International Colloquium Radios, Programmes, Audiences... Are you being served? was followed by the first General Meeting for the IREN partners. For further information please see Table of content to the right.