About Us

General and specific targets

The CICASP’s general target is to organize and develop the research endeavors and the dissemination thereof, in the art history and criticism, curatorship and cultural patrimonial areas, conducted by the teaching staff of and researchers affiliated with the Faculty of Arts and Design of the West University of Timisoara, as well as to facilitate the development and the progress of educational and research projects, in partnership with other prestigious scholars, institutions and organizations, local based and from abroad.

a) To develop a network of researchers, involving teachers, scholars, PhD and MA students of the Faculty of Arts and Design, as well as independent researchers affiliated with the CICASP (Research center in Curatorship, Art history and criticism, patrimonial studies) throughout the ongoing research projects;

b) To develop research projects related to the focal area of the CICASP;

c) To present the results of the researches endeavored by the CICASP members and to promote the same within the framework of national and international scientific events;

d) To organize scientific meetings (seminars, symposiums, conferences, summer schools and other scientific events) and to promote the CICASP activity;

e) To offer the possibility of carrying out the practice or specialization to young people interested in the focal areas of the CICASP;

f) To publish the results of the research developed within the CICASP in distinguished academic reviews, in Romanian and in international languages;

g) To develop research and creative projects in partnership with other academic research and creation centers of the FAD as well as to support the artistic research and creative activities of other FAD centers;

h) To develop and to promote the research of the focal areas of the CICASP by strengthening the inter-institutional links;