The 'European Media Management Association' (emma) is an international not-for-profit organisation that was founded in 2003 in response to the dramatic growth in media management courses and programmes at higher education institutions throughout Europe. Until 2014, the name of the organisation was European Media Management Education Association. It has some 150 members for 20 European universities.
The association pursues the following aims:
To serve the needs and interests of the academic community that is providing education and producing scientific research in media management and economics, especially in Europe but open to membership from anywhere in the world
To provide a forum where educators, researches and practitioners share and develop information and documentation about their work in media management and economics
To encourage scientific research that is relevant to the field and this community, and to stimulate intellectual interest and development of the field
To promote communication, co-operation and collaboration between Association members
To spur scientific discourse and publication on all relevant platforms for the circulation of scholarship (online, in print, electronic, etc.)
To encourage, support and promote the work and development of young researchers and educators in this field
To facilitate links between relevant national and international organisations, professional media firms, and regulatory agencies within and across sectors – public, private and volunteer
To encourage and support diversity within the community
The current executive board consists of:
President: Ulrike Rohn from Tallin University / (Baltic Film and Media School)
Deputy President: Francisco Javier Pérez-Latre from University of Navarra
Secretary: Sari Virta from Jonkoping University and University of Tampere
Treasurer: Barbara Eklöf from Jonkoping University
Special Projects Summer School 2016: Sabine Baumann from Jade University of Applied Sciences
Website Administrator: Peter Block from University of Westminster
Provisional board member: Bianca Harms from University of Groningen and Stenden University of applied sciences
Prior emma presidents were:
2003-2005: Alfonso Sanchez-Taberner from Universidad de Navarra
2006-2008: Heinz-Werner Niestedt from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU)
2008-2010: Lucy Küng from University of Oxford
2010-2012: Charles Brown fromWestminster University
2012-2016: Gregory Ferrell Lowe University of Tampere
The main activity of emma is the annual conference. The next conference will be held in Ghent, Belgium, from May 10-13, 2017. It will be co-organized by Ghent University and Vrije University Brussels.
Previous conferences took place in:
2016 Portugal 2015 Hamburg 2014 Tallinn 2013 Bournemouth 2012 Budapest 2011 Moscow 2010 London 2009 Paris 2008 Barcelona 2007 Zurich
Furthermore a biannual doctoral summer school is organised. In 2016 this summer school took place at Jade University of Applied Sciences Its flagship journal is the Journal of Media Business Studies