The Department of International Human and Social Sciences was established on January 1, 2022, consolidating and integrating the university's founding international vocation, in line with the current Statute, which in its first article dedicates the University “to intercultural dialogue, communication, and international cooperation, in connection with the local area and its representative institutions, as well as with national and international institutions pursuing similar goals.”
Within this framework, the Department thus addresses the visionary challenges faced by multicultural societies and the international community, adopting a multidisciplinary approach and also drawing on the language expertise developed by the University.
The Department's activities are essentially focused on constructing integrated and complex knowledge systems that combine aspects related to technical and scientific innovation with the fields of the human and social sciences, in a perspective that connects different areas of knowledge, with particular attention to the system of international relations, cooperation, sustainable development, and media ecosystems.
The objective pursued is to achieve a positive synthesis between advanced specialized training and an interdisciplinary method, aimed at building a new relationship between contemporaneity and tradition, between theoretical development and action, between the global and the local, and between sustainability and development.
The main field for achieving these objectives is made up of degree courses, but also encompasses doctoral programs, master's degrees, continuing education courses, and other training activities in collaboration with institutions, business and social organizations, and research centers.
Consequently, the research lines developed by the Department’s professors and researchers are also both inter- and multidisciplinary, including participation in European and international projects in the various areas of political, historical, philosophical, sociological, economic, engineering, legal, management, and computer sciences, as well as in areas related to sustainability.