It seeks to develop competences:

1. of systematic approach of the technological mediation in information and communication contexts in the perspective of areas such as Communication Sciences and Technologies, Communication Sciences and Information Sciences;
2. of understanding critical and grounded use of research methods in these scientific areas;
3. for the conception and development of a rigorous and consequent research, respecting the requirements imposed by academic integrity and quality patterns;
4. for the accomplishment of original research which contribute to the broadening of borders of knowledge in human and institutional communication and in Information Sciences;
5. for the sustained professional performance in research and its diffusion.

Objectives

1. to deepen and to structure advanced competences in the professional and academic domains;
2. to develop interdisciplinary knowledge, regarding the studies developed in both university institutions, in order to favour the analysis and the intervention in technologically mediated information and communication contexts;
3. to favour the exercise of research guided by innovation and academic excellence patterns, as for its conception, management and disclosure;
4. to stimulate the continuous systematization and the original knowledge production and respective national and international disclosure, in academic communities recognized in the Communication Sciences and Informations Sciences domains;
5. to promote the contact and the cooperation with national and international researchers of recognized competence in the course’s domains;
6. to stimulate the development of lifelong learning competences.

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