Mission
The Department of Engineering and Architecture is a scientific and teaching structure of the University of Parma, which has the task of promoting and organizing aggregations of scientific Sectors homogeneous in purpose and/or method in research and teaching activities, as well as in the related course units of the Courses of Study pertaining to it.
As stated within Annex 3 of Rectoral Decree n.901/2016, the mission of the DIA is the training and dissemination of knowledge in the fields of engineering and architecture. Knowledge is developed through intensive research activities and an articulated and comprehensive course catalogue. The training offer is defined and implemented in consultation with the main stakeholders, particularly students, private companies, public bodies, research centers, and within a path of progressive internationalization of activities. The DIA also pursues quality assurance procedures for administrative action, research, teaching and the third mission, promotes sustainability in the territory and contributes to its socio-economic growth.
Strategically, the DIA wants to constitute a reference of excellence at the scientific and educational level, capable of pursuing a policy of quality in the performance of its statutory activities, as well as a privileged interlocutor for the competitive development of the territory in the main areas of competence. The founding element of the department is the propensity for both basic and applied research, technology transfer and the training of professionals and researchers (engineers and architects) capable of entering the world of work, of contributing to the evolution of the local, as well as the Italian, European and international productive fabric, and to the dissemination of knowledge and technical-scientific culture.
The Department ensures and promotes the autonomy of the professors in their freedom to organize, arrange, carry out activities related to research and directly access funding; it also promotes quality assurance (QA), of teaching and research/third mission activities.
