Strategy - DACD
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The Department of Environment Constructions and Design (DACD) organises its activities along four main lines: undergraduate and graduate studies, continuing education, research - mainly applied - and services. The Department fulfils its mandate by respecting clear guiding values, such as: science, interdisciplinarity, attention to individuality and relationships, accessibility of education, equal opportunities and autonomy. It also acts consistently with SUPSI's founding values: practicality, originality, multidisciplinarity, partnership, internationality, territoriality and innovation.
The DACD acts in line with SUPSI's vision, mission, values and guiding principles by incorporating the new 2021-24 strategy.
The Department's strategy is to maintain a balance between the different areas of competence: education on the one hand and research and services on the other. Furthermore, combining technical activities - architecture, civil engineering - with artistic activities related to visual communication ando conservation-restoration represents a new challenge for the Department.
One of the main objectives of the Department is to foster the development of transversal and complementary skills to meet the demands of an increasingly complex world.
In the field of education, the emphasis is on consolidating the quality of Bachelor and Master training and enhancing its professionalisation character.
The Department constantly develops a shared and consistent culture of quality in training and teaching, through the qualifications and skills of the teaching staff and by promoting appropriate and flexible teacher training.
The Department also recognises that continuing education plays a central role in maintaining contact with students in undergraduate and graduate studies and transferring the results of applied research to the private sector.
The field of research is the other pillar of the university. Combining knowledge and the acquisition of skills in different units is one of our main goals.
The constant strengthening of collaborations with other academic institutions at national and international level remains a priority objective for the Department.
The competent and long-standing activity of the services enables them to maintain an important and useful network of contacts throughout the Cantone Ticino.
The Department's strategy is to maintain a balance between the different areas of competence: education on the one hand and research and services on the other. Furthermore, combining technical activities - architecture, civil engineering - with artistic activities related to visual communication ando conservation-restoration represents a new challenge for the Department.
One of the main objectives of the Department is to foster the development of transversal and complementary skills to meet the demands of an increasingly complex world.
In the field of education, the emphasis is on consolidating the quality of Bachelor and Master training and enhancing its professionalisation character.
The Department constantly develops a shared and consistent culture of quality in training and teaching, through the qualifications and skills of the teaching staff and by promoting appropriate and flexible teacher training.
The Department also recognises that continuing education plays a central role in maintaining contact with students in undergraduate and graduate studies and transferring the results of applied research to the private sector.
The field of research is the other pillar of the university. Combining knowledge and the acquisition of skills in different units is one of our main goals.
The constant strengthening of collaborations with other academic institutions at national and international level remains a priority objective for the Department.
The competent and long-standing activity of the services enables them to maintain an important and useful network of contacts throughout the Cantone Ticino.