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

Birgit Breninger

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

chibueze

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

Thomas Kaltenbacher