The Prospective and Research Laboratory in Communication, Culture and Cooperation (LAPREC) is a research group of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, which is part of the Department of Journalism and Communication Studies, UAB, since the 90’s. The Laboratory is managed by the Professor of Journalism, Teresa Velázquez.
Although it is linked to the Department of Journalism and Communication Studies, the LAPREC is an interdisciplinary group, where participate researchers from other fields of knowledge, such as the Audiovisual Communication, Advertising, Translation and Interpretation, Pedagogy Applied Linguistics, Social Anthropology etc. They also collaborate with LAPREC experts from other academic institutions and professionals in the field.