Summary:The group's activity focuses on researching the academic and artistic communities from an interdisciplinary approach to the social sciences. The analyses focus on the interactions and dynamics from the more or less autonomous fields of the arts and the academic world. Thus, the approaches seek, for example, to provide knowledge about evaluative cultures, creativity, excellence and other social discourses, both in more or less institutionalized artistic academies and in other academic fields. Furthermore, these analyses are linked to the evaluation of public policies (essentially multi-level cultural policies and educational policies of higher education).