Research Centers

China Center

The China Center is a multidisciplinary center, devoted to research and training, established with the aim of enhancing skills and knowledge gained over the years by researchers of the University of Macerata, in various fields and sectors related to China.

Documentation and Research Centre on the History of Schoolbooks and Children's Literature (CESCOM)

Centre for Documentation and Research on Archaeology of North Africa (CAS) "Antonino Di Vita" (Italian website)

The Centre aims to preserve, catalogue and classify the archaeological and historical documentation of Northern Africa, particularly of Libya, and enhance it.

Centre for Documentation and Research on Religions and Society in the Modern Age (Italian website)

The Centre aims to act as a promoter of research activities on study of origins and developments of the relationships between religions and cultures of the East and the West in the modern age (16th-19th centuries), and study of the relations between civil society and religious society.

European Documentation Centre (EDC) (Italian website)

Research Centre for the Third Sector and Civil Economy (CITeSEC)

The Centre aims to promote research activities on the study of the Third Sector and to promote educational innovation activities in the disciplinary areas involved.

Centre for Documentation on Political Parties in the Marche in the Contemporary Age and Laboratory of History, Economy and Society of Mediterranean and Eastern Europe (Italian website)

The aim of the Centre is to promote the collection of archival and documentary material produced by the political parties and movements that have operated in the Marche Region since the second post-war period, to prevent their dispersion and to guarantee their accessibility to scholars.

Centre for Documentation, Research and Teaching in the field of Educational and Training Professions (Italian website)

The Centre promotes cross-sectoral, interdisciplinary and international research activities in the fields of general and social pedagogy, teaching, technologies, multimedia and special pedagogy.

Research Centre in Psychology of Communication and Semiotics of the Text "Janos Sandor Petofi" (Italian website)

The Centre aims to promote research on the psychology of communication and semiotics of text.

Research Centre on Didactics, Disability and Inclusion and Educational Technologies (Italian website)

The Centre aims to promote research activities on the study of teaching, with particular attention to learning and teaching processes, planning, teaching professionalism, inclusion, disability and educational technologies.

Research Centre Italy - Argentina (CRIA) (Italian website)

The Centre aims to promote research activities on the study of relations between Italy and Argentina and in particular on the migrations that have affected the two countries.

Centre for Studies on Institutions and Society

The Centre aims to promote research activities on the study of the relationships between legal institutions and the processes of social change, starting from a sociological-legal perspective and making use of a comparative approach.

Centre for Constitutional Studies (Italian website)

The Centre aims to promote and coordinate research on the themes of contemporary constitutionalism. The activities focus on protection of fundamental rights and freedoms, structure of the form of government, system of normative sources, relationships between levels of government, jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court.

Centre for Study and Research on Juvenile Justice

The Centre aims to promote the study, documentation and scientific debate on Juvenile Justice.

Centre for African Studies

The Centre gathers and promotes all research and teaching activities carried out across the University of Macerata and related to Africa, its diasporas and its manifold relations with other geographical and cultural contexts.

Research Center on the Adriatic and the Mediterranean (CIRAM)

The Centre aims to act as a catalyst and promoter of the research activities carried out in the University of Macerata on topics related to the Adriatic and Mediterranean region and to the neighbouring geographical areas.

Centre for Studies and Research for Innovation, Digitization, Internationalization and Management (CEIDIM) (Italian website)

The Centre is a scientific body with the purpose of studying, researching, designing and applying innovative methods and tools for the digitization of documents, the dematerialization of processes, the formation and long-term preservation of digital archives, innovation and management in the public and private sectors.

Centre for Italian-American Studies (CISIA) (Italian website)

The Centre’s purpose is the investigation of relations and exchanges between Italy, the United States and other countries of the Americas. His main research field is the circulation of people, ideas, political and economic models, cultural products, natural and artistic languages, stories, traditions and myths, which, through adaptations and transformations, have triggered the development of innovative forms and practices in societies and in the cultures on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

Centre “Fausto Vicarelli” (Italian website)

The Interdepartmental Research Centre "Fausto Vicarelli" has as its primary interest the relationship between credit, industry and finance.

Centre for Studies on Greek and Latin Poetry in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Italian website)

The Centre intends to promote philological-literary research on poetic production in Greek and Latin in the late ancient and medieval period.

Centre on Healthy and Active Aging (CRISA) (Italian website)

The Centre promotes and coordinates investigations in the field of sociological and gerontological studies on the aging process, with particular regard to the issues of healthy and active aging.

Centre for Adriatic-Ionian Maritime Studies and Trans-European Transport (CUSMAT) (Italian website)

The Centre aims to promote research and training in collaboration with other national and international bodies and institutions, in the context of the new transnational maritime and transport reality.

Centre for the Evaluation of Territorial Policies (VPT)

The Centre pursues cognitive, descriptive, interpretative, propositional, training and educational purposes on issues related to territorial policies.

Phonetics and Writing Laboratory – LaFoS (Italian website)

The Laboratory carries out, coordinates and promotes interdisciplinary research and advanced scientific training in the fields of spontaneous and semi-spontaneous speech analysis.

Laboratory on Agricultural, Environmental and Food Policies "Ghino Valenti" (Italian website)

The Centre carries out research on legal, economic and historical studies relating to agricultural, environmental and food policies in their international, European, national and regional dimensions.

Migration Observatory - IMAGO (Italian website)

The Centre aims to promote research activities on the study of migratory phenomena, through empirical, theoretical and applicative research activities.

Laboratory of Forensic Toxicological Chemistry and Forensic Medicine

The Centre carries out investigations of a chemical-toxicological value, for public bodies, and of a forensic toxicological nature with experts and technical consultants appointed by the judicial authorities.

Inter-university Centre for Legal Studies for Consumer Rights (Italian website)

The Centre aims to facilitate the exchange of information and collaboration with Departments, Universities, public and private bodies operating in the sector, consumer associations, producers' associations, associations of industrialists, chambers of commerce, industry and crafts.

Inter-university Centre for Documentation on Italian Economic Thought (CIPEI) (Italian website)

The Centre aims to promote the research of institutional history of political economy.

Inter-university Centre for the History of Italian Universities (CISUI) (Italian website)

The Centre promotes scientific research on the history of universities in Italy, since its origins.

Inter-university Research Centre for the Study of Utopias (CISU) (Italian website)

The Centre promotes the study of utopian, in particular for the political instances of reform, renewal, social planning, and the dissemination of a contemporary "culture of utopia", understood as a particular instance and practice of advancing justice, fundamental rights, well-being and peace, in the direction of overcoming the prejudices that can separate peoples, social groups and individuals.

Inter-university Centre for Symbol Studies (Italian website)

The Centre promotes research on the symbolic and the mind, the appearance of the symbolic, its origin and its production.

Inter-university Centre for the Study of Post-Soviet Culture and Counterculture (CCCP) (Italian website)

The Centre aims to promote scientific research in the literary, artistic, cultural and historical fields of post-Soviet Russia.

Centre on Didactics, Disability and Inclusion and Educational Technologies (Italian website)

The Centre aims to promote research activities on the study of teaching, with particular attention to learning and teaching processes, planning, teaching professionalism, inclusion, disability and educational technologies.