The activities of the URV/Repsol International Chair for Excellence in Communication are focused on three main areas:
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Teaching
The Chair organizes seminars related to communicative excellence practices, run by first-rate professionals and experts. These activities are aimed at URV's undergraduate and PhD and master students.
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Research
The Chair promotes and funds research on aspects, areas or issues of communication socially and intellectually relevant to the society of Tarragona and Catalonia as a whole. In this area, the Chair contributes to the activities of the research group Asterisc on Communication in Risk Society and Media and Cultural Studies.
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Dissemination
This section includes several sorts of actions:
- Organization of international high-level congresses, which gathers experts from around the world to debate about socially relevant communication aspects.
- Publication of an international academic journal in English about Communication issues: Catalan Journal of Communication and Cultural Studies.
- Publication of books, brochures and electronic documents to disseminate the Chair's teaching and research activities.
URV-Repsol International Chair for Excellence in Communication