From TNR to CORE, an ongoing commitment to research and education.

Under the original name of Taula de Nova Recerca (TNR), this space was conceived in 2009 as a cycle of presentations aimed at fostering exchange, debate and the promotion of research within the Department of Communication of the Pompeu Fabra University.

By initiative of the then director of the Department, Miquel Rodrigo Alsina, and the deputy director José Fernández-Cavia, TNR soon became a reference for the UPF community, focusing on the dissemination of doctoral theses and research projects by University researchers, but also providing information on scholarships, grants, competitive projects, accreditations and other tools for researchers.

During an initial period of its history, TNR's main objectives were to facilitate the exchange of information on the research carried out in the Department, as well as to provide doctoral students with a space in which they could make their proposals and results know, and receive feedback that would nourish the quality of their doctoral theses.

Gradually, TNR adopted the format of a monthly seminar, usually monographic, which incorporated not only presentations by UPF PhD students or researchers, but also invited other researchers and professionals.

By 2020, especially due to the COVID-19 crisis, TNR reformulated its structure and sought to adapt to the academic and social needs of the moment, basing its efforts on the work carried out for more than a decade.

Thus, the cycle evolved into a virtual format that facilitates the encounter between the disciplines associated with communication and the social sciences to strengthen local, national and international research, in an intra and interdisciplinary way. Based on this broadening of its objectives and scope, the instance is renamed CORE (Comunicació i Recerca / Communication and Research) as a way of underlining its vocation for internationalization and the centrality of exchange in the academic field.

CORE involves not only the active participation of ongoing research, such as doctoral theses or research projects, both from UPF and other universities, but also adheres to a strategy of continuous reference and consultation that will be available online, to society in general, through videos and presentations recorded and published from its renewed website.

In this sense, CORE takes a further step in terms of knowledge transfer, continuing UPF’'s commitment to research and education.

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