Research
At the InterCultural Center (ICC), research, education and social responsibility projects complement each other in order to contribute to a more responsible society: competent within diversity, for a diverse society.
To achieve this vision of interculturality, the researchers at the InterCultural Center combine various theoretical approaches with state-of-the-art methods to work on future solutions for pending social and cultural challenges. The research units of our InterCultural Center are:
The Institute for Intercultural and Communication Research (ICR) ICR Research Unit Director: Prof. Dr. Birgit Breninger
The Salzburg Institute for Reading Research (SIRR) SIRR Research Unit Director: Prof. Dr. Thomas Kaltenbacher
The Culture and Science Laboratory (CSL) CSLab Director: Prof. Dr. Thomas Kaltenbacher
The Intercultural Academy (IA) IA Research Unit Director: Prof. Dr. Chibueze Udeani
The Institute for Global Development (IGD) IGD Unit Director: Prof. Dr. Kurt Luger, UNESCO Chair
The Research Fellowship Program (RFP) RFP Unit Director: Phoebe Mayer, MBA
Birgit Breninger
Selected Academic Interests:
Interculturality – culture, communication and trainings
Perception, cognition and attention
Intercultural competence assessments and new methodologies
Identities and social groups from intercultural perspectives
Chibueze C. Udeani
Selected Academic Interests:
Interculturality – culture, communication, conflict and conflict management; and competence
Intercultural Hermeneutics
Philosophy – especially from an intercultural perspective
Theology – especially from an intercultural perspective
Religious Studies and Science
Thomas Kaltenbacher
Selected Academic Interests:
Interculturality – language and culture
Multimodal language perception, language production and language acquisition (L1&L2)
Cognition and perception: reading and information processing
Clinical linguistics, Neurolinguistics
