Faculty’s Institutes and Laboratories
The Faculty considers scientific research, whether pure or applied, of the utmost importance. For this reason, the Faculty is engaged in numerous research and development projects both at the Swiss and at the international level, many of which involve the Faculty’s hallmark interdisciplinary approach.
The Faculty has inaugurated nine institutes related to the broad groups of disciplines and their fields of application in which it is primarily interested, to further the planning and development of research:
- Institute of Communication and Health (ICH)
- Institute for Public Communication and Education (ICIeF)
- Institute for Linguistics and Semiotics (ILS)
- Institute for Media and Journalism (IMeG)
- Institute of Psychology and Sociology of Communication (IPSC)
- Institute for Communication Technologies (ITC)
- Institute of Marketing and Communication Management (IMCA)
- Institute of Italian Studies (ISI)
- Institute for Mediterranean Studies (ISM)
The institutes promote the Faculty’s fundamental scientific principles, undertake research projects, and also coordinate their research activities with those taking place in the institutes of other universities, companies and institutions, thus establishing the Faculty within an international, national and local context.
The Faculty has also set up a number of laboratories and observatories, for the study of more specific topics than those dealt with by the Institutes, or of issues that are common to all: they are organised either within the Institutes or across them. The research of each of them is centred around a set of (often externally funded) projects, linked by strong epistemological and methodological ties.
The following laboratories and observatories are currently active within the Faculty: