Acquisition and understanding of the theoretical structures underlying General Relativity both in its geometric meaning and as a self-interacting theory for a massless spin-2 field.
Identification of analogies and differences between Einsteinian gravity and non-Abelian gauge theories for spin-1 fields, and discussion of the peculiarities associated with the localization of Poincaré and (anti-) de Sitter algebras.
Connection of the theory with current research aspects through the illustration of some notable solutions of the Einstein equations, both in the perturbative and in the non-perturbative regimes.