Facilities and Services
Main features
The FARE-Lab facility comprises the experimental laboratory and the recruitment database. It consists of a large room that can accommodate up to 24 participants on individual desks, screened at the sides to prevent uncontrolled interactions between participants during the experiment.
Instrumentation available to the laboratory
- 18 fixed lab posts, 2 servers and 24 notebooks connected to the AlmaWiFi network
- Dedicated software (Qualtrics, Netica, oTree, NVivo, Ngene, STATA, SimaPro)
- Video-conferencing system for online experiments
Recruitment
- Creation, management and maintenance of our current panel, with more than 300 users, and growing steadily;
- Nearly a dozen selectable variables to customise and create dedicated panels;
- Recruiting users for research.
FARE-Lab "mobile"
24 Tablet Galaxy TabPro S LTE touchscreen.
Services and consulting
The FARE-Lab is available for consultancy for market analyses, surveys on individual decision-making behaviour and patterns (e.g., consumers, farmers, citizens…), elaboration of business strategies and innovation choices, studies on the efficiency of production processes (LCA and LCC), estimation of ecological footprints, analysis of agri-food and environmental policies.
Teaching and Training Activities
FARE-Lab offers its resources to support teaching and training activities:
- Development of Bachelor's and Master's theses
- Development of research projects by doctoral and post-doctoral students
- Applied and experimental economics exercises in bachelor's and master's degree courses