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The EUROFICTION Project 

The EUROFICTION project was born of the firm belief on the part of its Italian promoters (Fondazione Hypercampo in association with the University of Firenze, and Osservatorio sulla Fiction Italiana) that, in order to put into practice appropriate policies and strategies intended to strengthen and make more competitive the European television industry, a systematic, well documented, analytical and comprehensive information and knowledge is an absolute priority.

Thus EUROFICTION was established in 1996 as a European Observatory basically aimed at quantitative and qualitative monitoring and analysis of domestic television fiction produced and offered in the five main European countries: France, Germany, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom - without precluding the possibility for other countries to join the project in the future.

Five national research teams and eight institutions are currently involved in the EUROFICTION project:

Carried out on the basis of harmonised data-gathering criteria and data elaboration, the annual report of the EUROFICTION concerns:

  • monitoring the main variables of the first-run fiction supply: hours, titles, episodes, scheduling, format, genre, rating and share;
  • classifying basic dimensions of the story content as cultural indicators: time, place, environment, main character;
  • compiling a filmografic index and a synopsis of 100 selected programmes;
  • making in-depth analysis of the most successful or trendy productions of the year;
  • providing data about investments, imports, expor

The main output of EUROFICTION is an Annual Report offering comparative overviews and analysis and syntesis of the most significant fiction trends within and across the European countries.

The aim is two-fold:

  1. produce and circulate knowledge likely to meet the interests of differents categories of operators: television professionals, policy-makers, media researchers;
  2. foster the conditions for a greater exploitation and valorization of European television fiction and its cultural and economic functions.

Most of the data and information that EUROFICTION supplies cannot be found elsewhere or is dispersed and fragmented. Rearranging all this into an organic whole, following its evolution in time, provides with new and fruitful knowledge. It is the knowledge of a significant part of European cultural production and consumption that is thus rendered transparent and available, with the added value of the reciprocity favoured by a comparative framework of research.

Contacts:

Fondazione Hypercampo
Via dei Servi
50122 Firenze
tel. +39 55 2396235
fax +39 55 213602
e-mail: fondazione@hypercampo.org

 
Osservatorio sulla Fiction Italiana (OFI)
Via di Novella, 11
I-00199 Roma
tél. +39 6 862 173 66
fax +39 6 862 001 53
e-mail: il.campo@mclink.it
Through the Yearbook, the monthly legal newsletter IRIS and its other publications in print form or on this website, the European Audiovisual Observatory offers a wide range of professional information and data, published in English, French and German. Backed up by its networks of partners, correspondents and a wide range of information sources the Observatory becomes THE supplier of economic, statistical, legal and financial information on the audiovisual sector in Europe.