Research carried out in the faculty focuses on seven main areas:

• Permanent Education – Processes and Projects of Education and Development with a Focus on South Tyrol;
• IN-IN Education: INnovative and INclusive Education;
• Psychology and wellbeing promotion in educational contexts;
• Languages and multilingualism in South Tyrol;
• Aesthetic experiences and communication;
• Educational Contexts, Disciplines and their Teaching in the Nursery and Primary School;
• Socio cultural worlds: institutions, welfare, social professions, environment and population.

Our key research topics are those related to education in the family and in primary school; the development of professional skills for teachers in the wider context of lifelong education; intergenerational interaction; community development; social and cultural dynamics linked to the challenges posed by social inequality; sustainable social development and the wide interdisciplinary topic of teaching languages and linguistic competence in multilingual contexts.

Our faculty relies on a large network of collaborations with national and international organisations and universities. At the same time, our faculty has created a large network of collaborations, of which the main hubs are: local educational authorities, Italian, German and Ladin language schools in South Tyrol, the Department of Knowledge and Education in the Trento province, the museums network, libraries, media libraries and cultural societies of the Euregio area.