Research Laboratories

The laboratories are centers of applied research

Students of the three licentiate degrees offered by the School of Communication may begin to work in the field of communication, not only in different areas of the media itself, but also in the applied research centers set up by the School. The purpose of these research centers is two-fold: to allow students to make contact with those who will shortly be their professional colleagues, and to explore and develop the use of new technologies for communication.

El Estudio (The Studio) is the research laboratory associated with the licentiate degree in Advertising and Public Relations. A wide variety of workshops is held there, the oldest and most important of which is the workshop on Creative Advertising organized by the School of Communication’s teaching staff. The success of the workshop is reflected in the Drac Novell first-prize awards that have been won, and the second prize awarded at the Cannes Advertising Festival (Young Talent section).

The MMLab (Multimedia Communication Laboratory) is an inter-departmental center of academic and applied research into digital communication. The impact of digital technology on different forms and means of communication, as well as the evolution of new communication systems and regulatory codes, is explored in both theoretical and practical terms. Two of the School’s publications are also coordinated in the Multimedia Communication Laboratory: Boletín MMLab, an online publication, and the School’s website, www.unav.es/fcom.