Pa.S.T.I.S. promotes, implements, and coordinates research, consultancy and training activities, with the aim of sharing knowledge and developing projects involving subjects interested in scientific research, new technologies, use of the media, innovation processes and environmental sustainability. These activities are carried out by the members of the research unit both through studies and research commissioned ad hoc and through specific consultancy and training activities aimed at entities and professionals. There are five research areas within which PaSTIS activities are distributed.
Health, Medicine and Technology
Particular attention is paid to the affirmation of new professionals in the sector, such as bio-statisticians and bio-informaticians:
Big data and biomedical research
Personalized medicine
Media and digital technologies
The area is articulated in four sub-areas.
Media and technological innovation
Media, gender, sexualities, and intimacies
Digital media and education
Environment, Sustainability and Territory
Environment, Sustainability and Territory
Open science and open innovation
The research within this area concerns various dimensions:
Evolution of consumption in the digital society
Information infrastructures, design and standardization
Local innovation policies
Technoscientific Issues in the Public Sphere
The research activity is developed along three axes:
Science and technology in the media
Technoscientific controversies
Pa.S.T.I.S. aims to intervene in the context of innovation by offering knowledge and tools useful for mediating between experts, citizens, policymakers, entrepreneurs, and other actors. The paths developed along the five areas led Pa.S.T.I.S. to collaborate, among others, with the National Institute of Astrophysics – INAF, SINCOTRONE TRIESTE – SCPA, the Permanent Observatory on the conditions of young people of the Veneto Region, the Experimental Zooprophylactic Institute of Venice, the Teaching Laboratory of the Planetarium of Bologna and the Veneto Regional Committee for Communications, the Center for Voluntary Service of the Province of Padua and the Federation of Artisan Entrepreneurs of Vicenza.