Tim
Raats Master in Communication Sciences (Free University
of Brussels) – 2007 (magna cum laude), Class: Information
society & Globalisation Thesis title: “A 2007
EUROPA Production ©” The independent television
production sector in Europe, 15 years after Television Without
Frontiers and three MEDIA-programs later… Descriptive
and critical analysis of the implementation of European
support measures in favour of an economically stable and
cultural diverse television production sector in Flanders
Higher
Secundary Education (Koninklijk Atheneum Maerlant Blankenberge)
– June 2003, Class: Modern Languages – Sciences,
Lower Secundary Education (Koninklijk Atheneum Maerlant
De Haan) – June 1999, Class: Latin – Mathematics
Professional
experience: Since October 2008: FWO-aspirant – PHD
researcher; research on the impact of digitisation on Public
Service Broadcasting in a converged media landscape, October
2007-2008: BAP-Researcher for IBBT-SMIT (Interdisciplinary
Institute for Broadband Technology – Studies on Media,
Information and Telecommunication) – research for
projects PoKuMOn & BOM-Vlaanderen at the Communications
Department of the Free University of Brussels, Internship
(7 weeks – 2007) Monitoring; policy analysis for Eurocinema/INCDeurope
Research
interests: Issues related to culture in a networked society
(hybridisation, transitions, cultural experiences, cultural
participants, etc.), European film and television policy
and support mechanisms, Sustainability, concentration and
expansion in the film & television production sector,
Public Service Broadcasting in a converged media landscap.
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