Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi is the oldest higher education institution in Romania. Since 1860, the university has been carrying on a tradition of excellence and innovation in the fields of education and research. With over 23.000 students and 742 academic staff, the university enjoys high prestige at national and international level and cooperates with  403 universities world-wide. Alexandru Ioan Cuza University is a member of some of the most important university networks and associations: the Coimbra Group, EUA – European University Association, Utrecht Network, International Association of Universities, University Agency of Francophony and the Network of Francophone Universities (RUFAC). These partnerships offer us the opportunity to experience changes, to have student and teacher mobilities and joint academic, research and strategy programmes.

Alexandru Ioan Cuza University became the first student-centered university in Romania, once the Bologna Process was implemented. We believe in the power of individual choice and customized education. Thus, we became the first Romanian university to offer students the opportunity to choose both a major and a minor field of study, in a combination at their choice, that best suits their career goals.

Research at our university is top level. In 2008, for the third year in a row, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University was placed first in the national research ranking compiled on the basis of Shanghai criteria. Our teachers are involved in over 187 national and international research projects. Striving for excellence, the university takes unique initiatives to stimulate research quality, to encourage dynamic and creative education and to involve its best students in academic life.

The Department of Communication Science and Public Relations

is an educational and research structure that aims to produce, develop and disseminate valuable knowledge about the role of professional communication in the contemporary democratic society.

Communication is what makes humans capable of the most astounding achievements: it makes art and education possible, it makes business possible, it makes it possible for people to express or hide their true thoughts, to think of legal and moral standards, to make plans for collective action. The systematic study of communication has become more necessary today, when technological developments have turned the world we inhabit in a complex and interconnected space, whose components are intensely interacting.

Our educational and research priorities envisage the following directions:

• The impact of communication strategies on the evolution of a brand – be it a commercial, cultural, institutional, or social brand
• The role of PR and advertising in making a business more efficient
• The mass-media system in contemporary society
• The impact of new media on mass communication, PR and advertising 
• The legal and ethical standards that a communication practitioner must take into account when developing a strategic plan for an organisation
• The rhetorical and the semiotic underpinnings of public communication
• The bases of interpersonal communication
• The constitutive role of language in the creation and functioning of social entities.

The University of Turin is one of the most ancient and prestigious Italian Universities.
Hosting almost 80.000 students (a.y. 2021-2022) and with 120 buildings in different areas in Turin and in key places in Piedmont, the University of Turin can be considered as “city-within-a-city”, promoting culture and producing research, innovation, training and employment.
The University of Turin is today one of the largest Italian Universities, open to international research and training. It carries out scientific research and organises courses in all disciplines, except for Engineering and Architecture. It is an integral part of the community, acting for reviving urban and suburban areas, promoting cultural interaction, social integration and development, encouraging dialogue and insight into current realities.
The University of Turin is a public institution aiming at "higher education, and scientific and technological research” (art. 1, University of Turin Statute).
The University has a clear governance structure in accordance with the principle of autonomy established by Italian law in 1989. It defines its own Statute and regulations on educational, scientific, organisational, administrative, financial and accounting activities.

Structure:
Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences
Department of Chemistry
Department of Clinical and Biological Sciences
Department of Computer Science
Department of Cultures, Politics and Society
Department of Drug Science and Technology
Department of Earth Sciences
Department of Economics and Statistics "Cognetti de Martiis"
Department of Economics, Social Studies, Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Modern Cultures
Department of Historical Studies
Department of Humanities
Department of Law
Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology
Department of Management "Valter Cantino"
Department of Mathematics "Giuseppe Peano"
Department of Medical Sciences
Department of Molecular Biotechnology and Health Sciences
Department of Neurosciences "Rita Levi Montalcini"
Department of Oncology
Department of Philosophy and Education Sciences
Department of Physics
Department of Psychology
Department of Sciences of Public Health and Pediatrics
Department of Surgical Sciences
Department of Veterinary Sciences
Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning

 

Department of Philosophy and Education Sciences
The Department of Philosophy and Education Sciences has been admitted to the list of 180 Italian departments of excellence, and will have access to funding for the five-year period 2018 - 2022, to strengthen and enhance research excellence, with investments in human capital, infrastructures and highly qualified educational activities.
Awarded Excellence funding from the Italian Ministry of University, it offers an innovative and interdisciplinary approach in teaching and research. Academic staff members include prominent scholars in philosophy, education, communication and sociology. Key areas in philosophy and education are studied with reference to their historical development and influence on contemporary culture. Outstanding research infrastructures feature the Luciano Gallino Laboratory on Behaviour Simulation and Educational Robotics and LIFE, the Innovation Lab in Philosophy and Education.
The DFE stands out for its innovative and interdisciplinary research themes, for its involvement in numerous international cooperation agreements, because it hosts prestigious research centers, offers excellent degree courses and masters and engages in high-level teaching projects and of Third mission.

The Institute for Advanced Religious Studies and Internetworking Communication (IARSIC) is an open research structure organised around scientific journal ESSACHESS  founded and directed by Dr. Stefan BRATOSIN, full Professor at the Paul Valéry University of Montpellier.

IARSIC began as an international center of applied research studies of innovations in communication. IARSIC is currently focused on working with scholars and scientific research groups from all over the world in order to develop and promote researches in religion, symbolic communication, new media and Internet through interdisciplinary cooperation.

This research structure was established in 2011 when a network of over thirty researchers from different scientific disciplines decided to join together around a research institute in order to participate in programs, projects, and research contracts in sciences involved in areas of information and communication.

Currently IARSIC involves scientists from Brazil, Colombia, France, Lebanon, Madagascar, Moldova, Morocco, Romania, Russia, Spain, Tunisia, and the United States of America.

The purpose of IARSIC is to make possible international cooperation in the fields of religion, symbolic communication, new media and Internet so that scholars and researchers from all over the world can work together in order to elaborate, accomplish, and implement the best research projects and programs involving innovation on these topics.

The mission of IARSIC is to develop, implement, and promote innovation in religion, symbolic communication, and new media and Internet.

IARSIC is governed by its members in accordance with its by laws.

UNIVERSITÉ PAUL-VALÉRY MONTPELLIER 3, ITIC, Bât. BRED, Bureau 216, Route de Mende 34 199 Montpellier Cedex 5

Nowadays, UBI is a national and international reference institution, in the spheres of education, research, innovation and entrepreneurship. 

More and more concerned about quality, UBI has invested in the creation of well-equipped laboratories, in the expansion of its facilities, in the involvement in research projects of national and international scope, and in a qualified teaching staff. Two of the hallmarks of this University are the provision of laboratories in all teaching areas and teacher-student proximity education. With approximately 7000 students, this institution has now more than 29 undergraduate or master courses, about 40 2nd cycle/master courses and about 25 3rd cycle/doctorate courses, distributed by its five faculties: Faculty of Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Faculty of Arts and Letters and Faculty of Health Sciences. Currently, in terms of human resources, UBI has more than 600 teachers and 270 employees throughout its five faculties and services. 

History

The first steps on the path of what is now the University of Beira Interior (UBI) were given in the 70, when the Instituto Politécnico da Covilhã (IPC) was born, in 1973. The city, once considered "The Portuguese Manchester", by its long tradition, dynamics and wool quality, was struck, in this decade, by an industrial crisis: large and small factories had begun to reveal serious weaknesses that would lead to their closure, with disastrous social and economic consequences for the region.

It was in this panorama, and since the beginning of the activities of the working group for the Regional Planning of Cova da Beira, that the idea to create a higher education institution in the region came up, in order to provide their inhabitants the possibility to pursue post-secondary studies without the obligation to move to other parts of the country, most of the times forever.

The UBI's statutes were revised in accordance with the Legal Regime of the Higher Education Institutions (Law 62/2007 of 10 September). One of the most interesting of UBI's physical features is the fact that the institution is the result of the recovery of ancient buildings, of great historic, cultural and architectural value. At the same time, it has been possible to preserve some historical landmarks of the city and revitalize them in spaces conceived for teaching and research.

In the 90s, the University was expanded to the far north of the city, along the Ribeira da Carpinteira. In 2006, the construction of the Faculty of Health Sciences was concluded, thus fulfilling the setup program of the Medicine course infrastructures, which started functioning in 2001/2002.

Currently, the UBI hosts more than 7 thousand students spread across five faculties – Arts and Letters, Sciences, Health Sciences, Social and Human Sciences, Engineering – with a formative offer adequate to Bologna, as well as laboratory and research structures to support the teaching process and with strong links to society and to the business world.

Faculty of Arts and Letters

Created in 2000, the Faculty of Arts and Letters is located in the former premises of the "Real Fábrica de Panos", founded by the Marquis of Pombal in 1764. Born of an original concept in the Portuguese Academy of that time, it encompasses traditional areas of Letters, Philosophy, Design, Cinema and Communication Sciences, as well as its strands of> Journalism, Advertising and Public Relations.

• Department of Communication and Arts
• Department of Letters