Rovira I Virgili University - Research Centres

Research Centres

• CRAMC – Research Centre for Behavioural Assessment

CRAMC is a URV research centre made up of researchers from the Department of Psychology. It specializes in generating and/or applying instruments for assessing and measuring behaviour. In its session of 22 December 2005, the URV’s Governing Council approved the creation of the centre in response to the quality of the research being undertaken. CRAMC’s mission is to carry out quality research in the assessment and measurement of behaviour. Its aim is to:

• Generate, validate and adapt new instruments for assessing and measuring behaviour.
• Apply these instruments in the field of the health and social sciences.
• Understand the basic mechanisms of, and the structures involved in, behaviour, and how they are related in the functional measurements applied.

• EMAS - Research Center on Engineering of Materials and Micro/NanoSystems

The Research Center in Engineering of Materials and Micro/NanoSystems, EMaS, belongs to the Rovira i Virgili University. Its research work focuses on the field of the science and engineering of new materials and their nanostructuration, and on their application to the design and development of micro and nanosystems.

The EMaS Research Center has more than 80 researchers who are experts in such fields as physics, chemistry, chemical engineering, optics, photonics, electronic engineering, and environmental engineering.

• CEDAT - Tarragona Centre for Environmental Law Studies

The Alcalde Pere Lloret Centre for Environmental Law Studies in Tarragona (CEDAT) was founded in 2007 and is a project that involves Tarragona City Council, EMATSA (Tarragona Water Board), EMT (the Tarragona Municipal Transport Company) and the Universitat Rovira i Virgili. It arose out of a long history of cooperation on issues of environmental law between the Tarragona City Council and the Faculty of Law and the Department of Public Law of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, and it represents the institutionalization of this cooperation.

The Centre bears the name of Alcalde Pere Lloret, a famous jurist and mayor of Tarragona, in recognition of his defence of democratic principles and human values in the governance of the city of Tarragona.

CEDAT’s objectives are to generate and socialize knowledge in the field of environmental law and, in particular, in the world of local management and administration.

• CREIP - Research Centre on Industrial Economics and Public Economics

The Research Centre on Industrial Economics and Public Economics (CREIP) is organized around two topics of economic analysis: industrial organization and public economics. The former studies the interaction between the productive agents in markets, with particular emphasis on the economic implications of the decisions taken in the public sector. Public economics, on the other hand, analyzes the decisions taken in the public sector from both a positive perspective—that is to say, the effects of public interventions in the economy—and from a normative perspective—that is to say, the instruments and actions that must be implemented to attain some previously established objectives.

• C3 - Centre for Climate Change

The Universitat Rovira i Virgili’s Centre for Climate Change (C3), located on the Terres de l’Ebre Campus, is continuing the research and teaching tradition of the Research Group in Climate Change of the Predepartmental Unit of Geography.

C3 aims to be an international reference point in the reconstruction and instrumental analysis of climate change. Among its areas of activity are research, teaching, scientific consultancy, knowledge transfer and the communication of these activities. It also aims to promote the scientific and educational excellence of the Terres de l’Ebre Campus and drive the knowledge society.

C3 has widely acknowledged experience in research on instrumental climate change and it aims to become a centre of excellence and a regional (Mediterranean basin) and international reference in the rescue, transfer, digitalization, quality control and homogenization of climatic and geophysical variables, and the generation and analysis of high-quality climate data and products. It also aims to be the nucleus around which teaching can be begun, in this order, on third-, second- and first-cycle programmes in climate change and the environmental sciences.

To achieve this objective, C3 undertakes research projects and discloses its results in publications and at scientific congresses, symposia and seminars. It helps to organize and teach master’s degree and doctoral programmes, and other specialist and training courses for professionals. It carries out scientific and technical projects, and channels the transfer of results to individuals and public and private institutions within the framework of the legislation in force. It also organizes scientific outreach events and provides scientific and technological services.