During his recent research trip to Europe, the director of the Doctorate in Communication, Dr. Carlos Del Valle, created important alliances with universities in the UK, the Netherlands and Spain.

The partnership with the University of Groningen in the Netherlands is one of the most important alliances of the Doctorate in Communication. This link made it possible that five academic staff members are going to be part of the program as visiting lecturers and as co-directors in the doctoral theses.

“The most important fact of this cooperation is that we initiated the formalization process for Double Degrees at both Universities for the Doctorate”, he said.

In addition to that, the Universidad de La Frontera also just started alliances with the two most important Doctoral Programs in Communication in Argentina. The first one with the Faculty of Journalism and Social Communication at the Universidad de La Plata and the second one with the Faculty of Communication Science at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. These alliances will make the exchange of teachers and students possible, especially during the thesis elaboration and for joint work in teaching.

At the same time, it has other important Cooperation Agreements oriented to the specific field of Communication and Cultural Studies, such as the International Center for Advanced Studies in Communication for Latin America (CIESPAL); the Department of Journalism at the Universidad de Sevilla, Spain; the Department of Communication and Information Science at the University of Porto, Portugal; the Institute of Language and Communication Science at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland; the Faculty of Political Science, Sociology and Communication at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; and the Scientific-Academic International Cooperation Network, Red INTER-ES, which is led by the Universidad de Salamanca, Spain.

In addition to that, it has relationships with the most important academic organizations in the field of communication at the Latin-American level, such as the Latin-American Association of Researchers in Communications (ALAIC), the Latin Union for Political Economics of Information, Communication and Culture (ULEPICC) and the Latin-American Confederation of Scientific and Academic Associations in Communication (CONFIBERCOM).

PURPOSE

The objective of the Doctorate in Communication is to train high-level researchers who contribute to innovative solutions to communicational and cultural problems with an interdisciplinary focus. This is why the first Doctorate in Communication was created between the two most important universities in the south of Chile.

RESEARCH FELLOW

The new distinction of Dr. Carlos del Valle is Research Fellow at the Department of European Languages and Cultures of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. During his trip, he taught students of the specialties Language and Society, Culture and Literature, and Politics and Society. He also participated as a lecturer in the Winter School of the University of Groningen. He held the conference called: “Critique to the Civilizing Project at Southern America: Modes and strategies for the production and subjection of the other”, within the Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Project financed by the European Union. The activity was made for researchers and students of universities in Europe, Asia and the USA.

Afterwards, he held a conference at the Newcastle University, UK, addressed to different researchers of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Two of the academic staff members joint the team as co-directors of future students´ theses to start with.

FOUNDATION PROGRAM

The Doctorate in Communication of the UFRO is a founding partner of the Network for Foresight Postgraduate Studies in Communication in Latin America. The purpose of this network is to create strengthening actions for postgraduate programs in communication, especially doctoral programs, at Latin American universities.