The 18 partner institutions of DETECt compose the Consortium responsible for the implementation of the project as defined in the contract with the European Commissions. The Consortium is led by the coordinating beneficiary, the University of Bologna. In order to guarantee the successful and timely execution of all the planned activities, the management organization is supervised by six bodies addressing three different organizational levels: coordination level; operational level; strategic level. The roles in the projects have been distributed on the basis of the different responsibilities and main tasks performed in order to ensure a systemic management structure:

The Coordinators are Professor Monica Dall’Asta (Project Coordinator) and Professor Ilaria Bartolini (Project Technological Coordinator). They act as intermediaries between the Contractors and the European Commission, supervising the correct implementation of the project with a special, but not exclusive concentration on the research tasks.

The Project Management Team of the University of Bologna assists the Coordinators and the other partners for all administrative, legal and financial aspects.

The General Assembly  is composed by all the partner institutions. It ensures the consortium adherence to the project timetable, guarantees the quality control and assurance procedures are carried out according to their internal standards, reviews and/or amends the contract and the Consortium Agreement, and coordinates and budget rules.

The Work Package Leaders will supervise the correct implementation of all the tasks included in their WP, supporting the partners involved in these activities and acting as intermediaries between these institutions, the Coordinator and the European Commission.

The Steering Committee is composed by all the Work Package leaders. It sets the research priorities, defines the proper tools and “infrastructure” for assuring links between the different multidisciplinary research teams, performs detailed planning and co-ordination of the work, taking the responsibility for the completion and quality assurance of each WP.

The Communication and Dissemination Team is responsible for internal and external communications and ensures the effective dissemination of the internal and final results involving all relevant stakeholders, also monitoring news stories related to the project topic and preparing reports, press releases and events specifically addressed to the media.

Tasks and activities related to project management are included in WP 1.

The work package has the following goals:

1. To coordinate and supervise activities to be carried out according to the work plan
2. To carry out the overall administrative and financial management of the project
3. To manage contracts with the EU Commission and the Consortium Agreement
4. To manage the knowledge generated by the project and the IPRs
5. To monitor quality and timing of project deliverables and to resolve conflicts
6. To establish effective internal and external communication procedures

 

Lead beneficiary: University of Bologna

Months 1-40

DETECt will promote, and extensively benefit from, the collaboration between academic and non-academic organisations. The Stakeholder Committee will coordinate the project’s activities involving non-academic partners, actively seeking to enlarge DETECt’s network of professionals, companies and public institutions.
In addition to four academic institutions (University of Aalborg, Link Campus University, University of Limoges, German Film and Television Academy Berlin), the Committee is composed by the industrial partners of the consortium: TV2, Miso Film, Visit Aaarhus, and the Bibliothèque des Littératures policières.
The activities of the Stakeholder Committee will focus on the involvement of professionals working in the literary, film and television sectors in the activities promoted by DETECt, as well as the dissemination of all the relevant project activities to the Stakeholder Network, a large group of organisations and individuals involved in the creative industries.

DETECt will promote the implementation of a vast range of initiatives aimed at maximising the impact of the project within and particularly beyond the academic community.

This goal will be reached by addressing a variety of target groups, including:

• scholars, teacher and students in the Social Sciences and the Humanities
• professionals of the creative industries
• policy makers
• fans and critics of popular culture
• the general public

In order to disseminate the research findings to these audiences, and to involve them in the dissemination activities, the DETECt partners will produce a large number of outputs including:

• two conferences and a series of conference papers and panels
• two edited collections and a series of peer-reviewed articles
• a series of screenings of European crime films
• an exhibition about the history of crime fiction in Europe
• a web portal exploring European crime narratives in fiction, film and television
• a web mobile app mapping the locations of European crime TV shows
• two webinars on the production of European crime films and television
• a series of edit-a-thons of Wikipedia entries on the Europeannes of crime narratives
• a Massive Online Open Course on the representation of European identity in crime narratives
• a series of dissemination events involving writers, filmmakers, and TV creative and targeted at local communities.

The Dissemination and Communication Team will assure that the work carried out by the Consortium receives the appropriate coverage by mainstream and specialised media in all the countries involved in the project. To reach this goal, DETECt Project Communication Manager and the Press Office will coordinate the shared effort of all partners to attract the attention of local, national, and international media on the project’s dissemination activities.

Tasks and activities related to dissemination and communication are included in WP 7.

The work package has the following goals:

1) To provide continuous information about the project’s progress and achievements;

2) To promote the use of educational digital tools and resources among European citizens and key target groups;

3) To achieve high visibility within the academic community, promise the involvement of industrial and professional stakeholders and optimise the communication between academic and non-academic partners;

4) To effectively disseminate the spread of reports and policy documents among specific target groups to facilitate the transfer of results to the different fields of the European creative industry;

5) To promote active social participation in the project activities to raise awareness about the project topics and results.

 

TASK 7.1: Developing and implementing DETECt dissemination and communication plan

TASK 7.2: Developing DETECt Data Management Plan

TASK 7.3: Designing DETECt visual identity

TASK 7.4: Editing the public communication section of DETECt Web Portal

TASK 7.5: Promoting collaboration between scholars and professionals

TASK 7.6: Promoting DETECt learning community

TASK 7.7: Conference “Euro Noir as production, cultural circulation and consumption”

TASK 7.8: Final Conference “Images of Europe and Europeans in popular crime narratives”

TASK 7.9: DETECT Screenwriting Contest

TASK 7.10: DETECT exhibition and film screenings

 

Lead beneficiary: Link Campus University

Months 1-40