Sunčana Franić has been an associate in the Department for Culture and Communication at IRMO since 2020. She holds a double master’s degree from the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Zagreb, in French Language, Translation, and Literature, as well as in Comparative Literature (2019). In 2021, she enrolled in the interdisciplinary postgraduate specialist study program European project planning and management at the University of Zagreb. Her roles include research assistance at various research projects, as well as assisting the Department in project management and administration. From 2017 to 2019 as an intern at IRMO's Department of Culture and Communication she participated in the Jean Monnet project CULPOL – “EU Competences and National Cultural Policies: Critical Dialogues” (2018) and INTERREG Europe’s project “KEEP ON: Effective Policies for Durable and Self-Sustainable Projects in the Cultural Heritage Sector” (2018). She was a member of the IRMO team on the H2020 project “SoPHIA - Social Platform for Holistic Heritage Impact Assessment” (2020-2022), on the Jean Monnet project “European Union Policies and the Platformisation of Cultural and Audio-visual Sectors – platEU” (2020-2022) and CRESCINE. Her articles have been published in journals and conference proceedings in Croatia and the EU.