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EXPERT AUTHOR
FRANCE
Jean-Cédric Delvainquière
Research officer
Jean-Cédric Delvainquière has been a research officer in the Department of Studies, Future Trends and Statistics (DEPS) in the French Ministry of Culture and Communication since 1997. Trained as an economist (Master in 1991), he had been involved for 5 years (1991-1996) in the research carried on by the European Commission on local economic development and social exclusion strategies (in the frame of the programme "Poverty 3"). In charge at the DEPS of issues relating to public funding for culture and domestic cultural policies, he is responsible for the surveys on local cultural expenditure. He has been involved in the research supported by the Ministry on cultural diversity and now contributes on the topic of cultural attractiveness; he also participates in the work on regional cultural policies and on their economic dimensions.
Thomas Perrin
International scientific and academic cooperation Attaché at the French Embassy in Slovakia & Associate Professor
Thomas Perrin is senior lecturer (HDR) in regional planning and urban planning. From 2021 to 2024, he worked at the Montpellier School of Architecture, and since 2024 he is scientific and academic cooperation attaché at the French Embassy in Slovakia, Institut français. Thomas Perrin was also associate professor at the research centre TVES of the University of Lille. Previously, Perrin worked for the French Ministry of Culture, French cultural networks abroad (Morocco, Chad) and the University of Toulouse. In 2011, Perrin won the Mark Schuster Prize on comparative cultural policies and received a merit prize for the EU Committee of the Regions' Doctoral Thesis Competition. He was awarded "Chercheur novélisé" by the Toulouse City Council in 2012.
Perrin is a specialist of European studies, particularly concerning cultural policies, regionalism and territorial cooperation. His works are published in various journals and books and he has been involved in different international and European research projects. He co-supervised the Jean Monnet project Eurégio-Regions and Regionalism in the European Union and is a member of the Jean Monnet network CECCUT that deals with European capitals of culture in cross border areas.