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The final conference of the ICARUS project on December 7, 2021, from 10.00 to 13.00, is available to the public (registration required) in streaming.

Click HERE for registration and agenda.

The project sought to address problems generated by the massive use of private cars by introducing solutions based on innovative technologies to adapt smart mobility in a digital world.

The third ICARUS newsletter has been published! The newsletter contains the last update on the pilot actions, the promotional video of the project and much more!

for the complete Newsletter click on the link HERE

The official ICARUS video is now available on the project youtube channel!

The video represents a comprehensive account of all aspects of the project and shows the results of the pilot cases developed by all partners.

ITL, Lead Partner of the ICARUS Project, has organized "Maas Talks",  three webinars about Mobility as a Service,  on May 13, May 27, and June 9, 2021.

A three-webinar journey will explore the potential of the integration of a range of sustainable transport options into a single mobility service accessible and on-demand, by answering questions such as “what are the main social, environmental, and economic benefits of MaaS?” and “how to select the most effective MaaS model for your territory”.

September 11-15, 2023

Call for applications: December 1, 2022 – May 15, 2023 via the VIU website

Doing a PhD prepares you for a career in frontier research and education or for high-level roles in professional sectors where deep rigorous analysis is required. Besides the content specific to each discipline, there are some general procedures that are common and based on learning by doing and personal interactions. The aim of this PhD Academy is to familiarize young researchers to practice in research activities and to introduce them to their peers from other sciences and the challenges of the world outside academia. The PhD Academy will be highly interactive with several practical exercises.

This PhD Academy will be led by:
- National Research Council of Italy (CNR)
- KU Leuven, Belgium
- University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Faculty
Daniele Archibugi, Italian National Research Council, Italy (Scientific Coordinator)
John W.M. Creemers, KU Leuven (Scientific Coordinator)
Gregor Dugar, University of Ljubljana (Scientific Coordinator)
Mario Paolucci, Italian National Research Council
Giulia Andrighetto, Italian National Research Council
Nena Testelmans, KU Leuven
Joeri Wielandts, KU Leuven
Alessandra Fornetti, VIU TEN Program on Sustainability
Ilda Mannino, VIU TEN Program on Sustainability

Contents
- What are the social challenges that researchers need to address?
- Choosing your mentors
- What is your professional community?
- How to publish your research
- How to present a research project
- Applying for academic and non-academic jobs
- Applying for funding: grants and scholarships
- How to communicate your research to mass-media and public opinion
- How to cope with stress and build resilience in academia

Exercises
- Assess your motivation to be a researcher
- Assess your mentors
- Map your professional community
- Strengths and weaknesses of your CV
- Write the most important reference letter: yours!
- Writing a book proposal
- To survive in the Triangle: authors, editors and referees
- Set up a robust scientific paper
- Write a press release about your research
- A 120 second TV interview
- Job Interview exercise/simulation

Who can apply?
This international PhD Academy is offered to PhD students, Post-docs, and junior researchers across all disciplines. Specifically, the class will try to combine students in social sciences, humanities and hard sciences. Open to candidates from all the VIU Member Institutions; applications from excellent candidates from non-member institutions will be also considered and evaluated.

Fees & Grant Support
Students from the VIU member institutions will pay no participation fees. Grant support is also available to support, partially or fully, the costs of international travel; accommodation on campus, in shared rooms, will be offered.
External candidates admitted to the PhD Academy will pay fees (further information available in the brochure). VIU Alumni are eligible for a reduced fee.

Applicants must submit the (1) application form, (2) a letter of motivation – which should include a short bio and a brief description of the candidate’s research project, (3) a curriculum vitae, and (4) a photo.

For further information please download the brochure and the program or write to: phdacademy@univiu.org

May 13-17, 2024

Applications Closed

The PhD Academy is led by:
- University of Bordeaux, France
- National Research Council of Italy (CNR)
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München

Since the invention of the laser in 1960, many big laser systems have been built to exploit the capability of light pulses to strongly focus large amounts of energy into narrow space regions (micrometric) and short time intervals (nanoseconds i.e 10^-9 seconds). The biggest of such systems (National Ignition Facility, USA) enabled to create in the laboratory the extreme conditions found inside stars and in 2022 led to the first ignition of a thermonuclear fusion reaction with net energy gain, opening new perspectives for the unlimited production of clean energy. But laser systems can be very compact and yet deliver enormous power (>terawatt=10¹² W,) in pulses of ultra-short duration (<1 picosecond =10^-12 seconds), thanks to the technique invented by the two 2018 Nobel laureates in Physics, Gerard Mourou and Donna Strickland. Ultrashort, intense lasers opened up several new fields of applications. These latter include attosecond science,
based on converting the laser pulses (via nonlinear atomic or electronic processes) in even shorter pulses of ultraviolet- and X-rays down the scale of the attosecond (10^-18 seconds). The techniques recognized with the Nobel Prize 2023 to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, Anne l’Huillier now allow atomic and molecular processes to be studied and controlled on their typical temporal scale, opening up new perspectives in chemistry and in the understanding of biomolecular processes. Another prominent application is laser-plasma particle acceleration which allows to generate pulses of high energy ions, electrons and secondary radiation over a length scale 1000 times smaller than “conventional” radiofrequency-based particle accelerators, such as LHC at CERN in Geneva. Besides
potential economic benefits through compactness, laser-plasma particle accelerators feature unique characteristics, such as very high fluxes of particles produced in a very short time of the order of the laser pulse duration. The investigation of laser-accelerated particle beams and their use is currently challenging many research laboratories worldwide, in particular for its manifold applications. In the biomedical field, the recent indications for the enhanced radiobiological efficiency of very high doses delivered in ultrashort times (“FLASH" effect) further motivates the application of laser-driven accelerators.

Faculty
Andrea Macchi, CNR-National Institute of Optics
Emmanuel d'Humieres, University of Bordeaux
Joerg Schreiber, Ludwig-Maximilan University
Inka Manek-Hönninger, University of Bordeaux
Emanuela Reale, CNR-Institute for Research on Sustainable Economic Growth
Elisabetta Baldanzi, CNR-National Institute of Optics
Caterina Vozzi, CNR- Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies
Katia Parodi, Ludwig-Maximilan University
Joao Santos, University of Bordeaux
Pier Luigi Mazzeo, CNR - Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems

Guest speakers
Patrizio Antici, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Québec
Anne Hildenbrand-Dhollande, ISL French-German Research Institute of Saint-Louis

Topics
The program will provide the basics of intense laser-matter interactions on which scientific and societal applications are built. Specific topics will include laser technology, attosecond science, laser-plasma accelerators, and high energy density physics of relevance for fusion energy production and astrophysics. Lectures will cover both potential long-term applications and mid-term ones doable with current technology.
The inclusion of transversal skills lectures comes from the need of providing PhD students with a solid background on additional skills that are currently required by the labour-market (either at academia, industry or research).

Who can apply?
This international PhD Academy is offered to PhD students, post-docs and young researchers with background in Sciences, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Health Sciences, Materials Sciences, Cultural Heritage, and Astrophysics. Open to candidates from all the VIU Member Institutions; applications from excellent candidates from non-member institutions will be also considered and evaluated.

Fees & grant support
Students from the VIU member institutions will pay no participation fees. Grant support is also available to support, partially or fully, the costs of international travel; accommodation on campus, in shared rooms, will be offered.
External candidates admitted to the PhD Academy will pay fees (further information available in the brochure). VIU Alumni are eligible for a reduced fee.

Applicants must submit the (1) application form, (2) a letter of motivation – which should include a short bio and a brief description of the candidate’s research project, (3) a curriculum vitae, and (4) a photo.

For further information please download the brochure and the program or write to: phdacademy@univiu.org

COALESCE-EUPRIO Spring School for Communication Officers - 2nd edition 

Venice International University, through its Science Communication unit, organizes an intensive Spring School open to Communication Officers from EUPRIO, the association of higher education communicators in Europe. The Spring School is proposed in the framework of the European Competence Centre for Science Communication that COALESCE project is establishing, as part of its Training offer.

The 2026 edition is devoted to INTERNAL COMMUNICATION: FROM STRATEGY TO POLICY with the goal to identify and overcome communication challenges within higher education institutions, to support and encourage change processes.  

The School is based on Introductory Talks, Mutual-learning Labs and practical Tools, with sessions offered by experts joining both from COALESCE and EUPRIO network.  

The School provides

• Cutting-edge strategies for exploring internal communication issues
• Practical tools for addressing and developing internal communication policies and strategies

Objectives

• Clarify aims, priorities of internal communication processes
• Manage tensions and expectations
• Create a platform for participants to share problems and experiences
• Support effective internal communication 
• Provide tools and strategies for managing internal communication

Program available here.

For further information
Alessandra Fornetti: alessandra.fornetti@univiu.org

Organized in cooperation with 

October 26-30, 2026

Call For Application: January 15 – June 25, 2026

The Graduate Seminar is led by:
- University of Padua, Italy
- KU Leuven, Belgium
- University of Exeter, UK
- Waseda University, Japan

In the last ten years, digitalization has been challenging fundamental categories of international law, such as State sovereignty (Lyall, 2022), use of force and nonintervention in internal affairs (Kilovaty, 2021; Duroy, 2023; Pijpers, 2023; Roscini 2024), and how they must be reconsidered and adapted to the digital domain (Tsagourias, Buchan, 2021).

In this regard, the Seminars will investigate the practice of States, especially their position papers on the application of international law to the cyber domain (Mačák, 2017), as well as the actions of international organizations, among them primarily the United Nations, which are striving to identify the content of applicable international law rules (Henderson, 2021, see also the outputs of the Group of Governmental Experts on Advancing responsible State behaviour in cyberspace and the Open-Ended Working Group on developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security).

As a final methodological remark, while the Graduate Seminars will focus, as explained above, on international law, they will also take into account the digital strategy of the EU, which has been a world-wide forerunner, in subjecting the use of AI to an intensive regulation, with the AI Act, which entered into force on 1 August 2024 (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 June 2024; Pehlivan, Forgó, Valcke, 2024). This legal instrument, however, has been met with severe criticisms in some quarters of civil society and industries (Baldoni, 2023; Draghi, 2024, p. 79), as well as from some third states Governments (see e.g. the statement by U.S. VP J.D. Vance in Paris on 10 February 2025).

Faculty
Andrea Gattini, University of Padova
Gleider I. Hernández, KU Leuven
Mariko Kawano, Waseda University
Kubo Mačák, University of Exeter
Marco Dimetto, University of Padova
Aleksandra Kuczerawy, KU Leuven
Ana Beduschi, University of Exeter
Philippa Webb, University of Oxford
Andrea Crescenzi, National Research Council of Italy

Who can apply?
This Graduate Seminar is offered to Master students, PhD students, and junior researchers with a background in International Law, EU Law, Public and Comparative Law, Criminal Law, Human Rights Law, Cybersecurity Sciences, Political Sciences, and International Relations.
Open to candidates from all the VIU Member Institutions; applications from excellent candidates from non-member institutions will be also considered and evaluated.

Fees & grant support
Full fee waiver scholarships are available for students from VIU member institutions. In addition, grant support is available to support partially or fully the costs of international travel. Accommodation is provided free of charge. The participation fee for students of non-member institutions is Euro 1.150 VAT included. The fee is inclusive of tuition, course materials, accommodation, lunches, social events and taxes. Students from non-member institutions are not eligible for VIU grant support. VIU Alumni are eligible for a reduced fee.

Applicants must submit the (1) application form, (2) a letter of motivation – which should include a short bio and a brief description of the candidate’s research project, (3) a curriculum vitae, and (4) a photo.

For further information please download the brochure and the program or write to: summerschools@univiu.org

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VIU is offering an internship period from February 15 to June 1, 2018.

To candidate, send your CV and motivation letter to shss@univiu.org

VIU promotes international mobility by providing internship opportunities and scholarships to students of the member universities who attend the Globalization Program. Following the semester of courses at VIU, selected students are offered internships at research centers, universities, cultural organizations and companies in Italy and abroad.

Each semester VIU publishes a call for applications for:

Internships in Italy
The call is addressed to bachelor's and master's students from any of the member universities, including exchange students at Ca’ Foscari, Iuav, Padova, Tor Vergata and Milano-Bicocca who are attending the semester at VIU (at least three courses) and who wish to do an internship in a host organization in Italy following the semester.
Students selected for the internship in Italy are awarded a scholarship that will contribute to lodging and living costs.

For information regarding opportunities for Erasmus+ grants to support study and research, refer to the Scholarships section.  

We are pleased to inform VIU students of the recently published internship opportunities at the Biennale di Venezia. 

Wednesday, April 10

Classroom 9A, 5 pm

"Both the Sea and Mobile Dams as Threats. The Contemporary Imaginary of the Fishermen of the Lagoon"
Prof. Rita Vianello

The lecture will be delivered by Prof. RITA VIANELLO, Ca’ Foscari University, Anthropologist of the Sea, author of books about Pellestrina’s fisherman and on the Gondoliers.

Professor Vianello, who did extensive field work in Pellestrina, will introduce to us the Culture of the Fishermen of the Lagoon and to their perception and reaction towards the massive environmental transformation induced by the building of the Mobile Dams (MoSE).

Please note: this lecture is part of the boat trip to the Southern Venice Lagoon to be held on May 1.
It is compulsory for the students enrolled in the course History of Venice (S1901) and Globalization, Environment and Sustainable Development (S1925)

Venice International University is part of ISIS@MACH ITALIA (IM@IT), the hybrid Italian multidisciplinary Research Infrastructure (RI) for Complex Materials and Interfaces, hub of the world's leading research centre ISIS neutron and muon source (UK).

The multidisciplinary IM@IT encompasses a suite of distributed laboratories, and small and medium facilities with instrumentation for research in nanoscience, located at Research Centers and Universities distributed throughout the Italian territory. Venice International University, and among its members CNR, University of Tor Vergata and University Milano Bicocca are part of IM@IT.

VIU students have the opportunity to participate in the International Summer Program in Management, China Segment (ISPM-CH Segment) organized by the University of Padua.

The two-week intensive summer course focuses on "Intercultural Management: theory and practice" and will take place at Guangzhou University, Canton region, China from June 25 to July 6, 2018 (dates may vary slightly).
The course is awarded 6 ECTS.

The summer course, which is taught in English, is open to VIU students enrolled who are taking at least two courses at VIU (12 ECTS) during the Spring 2018 semester.
The candidates must be graduate students (registered for Master's degree at their home universities) in the following disciplines:
- Economics and/or Management
- Politics
- International relations or International Law
- Urban Planning and Development
Some students will be awarded scholarships to contribute to their travel costs. Lodging expenses will be covered by the host institutions, Guangzhou University.

Basic knowledge of Chinese language, equivalent to level A1 in the European Framework, is a requirement for participation. Candidates who have no knowledge of Chinese, can take a Chinese language course at the University of Padua. A final exam is scheduled at the end of the course. Only students who successfully pass the exam will be admitted to the summer school.

Deadline for application for VIU students is March 19, 2018 at 1.00pm
The following documents must be sent by email to shss@univiu.org and to international.economia@unipd.it
Subject of the e-mail: Candidatura ISPM Cina 2018

- CV (resume), should include courses taken at university and grades
- motivation letter
- short description of a research project that you wish to develop during your stay in Guangzhou and its connections to the theme of your final dissertation at home University

All documents must be signed and in .pdf format.
Make sure to include your full name, matricola number (only students from Italian Universities),
e-mail address and phone number in the footer of the e-mail.
Applicants may be called for an interview in Padua.

The full call for applications (in Italian) and further information is available on the University of Padova website:
http://economia.unipd.it/en/services/international-relations/exchange-students/international-summer-programs/international-0

VIU is partner of the INN Veneto – ISRE CUBE project launched with a kick off meeting held at the VEGA Park in Venice on December 14th, 2018. The initiative intends to offer an incubator for social innovation, conceived as a set of actions that not only valorize the environment and people, but also take a particular look at the weaker sections and groups of society. In this sense, it potentiates the role of ISRE as incubator of community building processes and the IUSVE CUBE building as a natural community HUB to connect communities interested in topics related to psychology, education, communication sciences and techniques and beyond.
The objective of the project is the creation and animation of a community that can develop contents and services for the target groups involved - as young students or unemployed, workers, entrepreneurs, start-up companies, citizens interested in taking part in the network and teachers, educators, experts interested in developing methodologies and contents in the field of Education. At the same time, it puts itself at their service to make them protagonists in activating ideas and initiatives, through processes of confrontation, participation and contamination with excellences operating in foreign contexts.
The project is organized in the framework of the Veneto Region's efforts to favor the return to Veneto of the so called “brain drain”, developing social and cultural innovation projects to foster employment and socio-economic growth, attracting excellences on the regional territory and promoting the birth of permanent attraction poles and opportunities for exchange between researchers and different high-skilled subjects, to generate an impact on the whole collectivity.  

The core activities rotate around themes such as the development of a culture that recognizes the value of the environment and the people; the theme of the good job; the relational goods as tool of concrete choice; the promotion of social innovation among the young generations through the developing of a specific Education area. They will include:
- 3 territorial animation grants (including the kick off meeting, events on the regional territory and a Content farm on a dedicated web platform);
- 6 training interventions on values and perspectives of social innovation, business plan and digital design for the developing of sustainable and inclusive enterprises as well as content marketing for enterprises and innovative start ups;
- 6 laboratories dedicated to: integrated sustainability and social innovation; regulations, financing, branding and marketing for innovative start-ups; ageability and good job.

The possible meeting of skills and the valorization of the territory will involve important experiences from abroad, converging in specific thematic areas related to Business innovation (marketing and digital applications in tourism, healthcare, sustainable mobility and green economy and IoT and proximity technologies in additive manufacturing), dedicating for each area a return grant, a Hackathon and specialist advice).

Partners

The project is promoted and led by ISRE (Istituto Superiore Internazionale Salesiano Ricerca Educativa), UniVe, IUSVE, CISL/Corazzin Foundation.
The partnership includes a number of association of enterprises, research and dissemination centers among which are Venice International University, Confapi,Intesa Formazione, Banca Prossima, as well as FAB LABs and business incubators of the Veneto area.

ISRE CUBE is funded by the “INN Veneto - Cervelli che rientrano per il Veneto del futuro" of the Veneto Region – DGR nr. 718 del 21 Maggio 2018.

For further information please contact 

 On 26 September the first edition of the Italian Business & SDGs Annual Forum has been held in Venice at VIU - Venice International University (Island of San Servolo).

The Forum was promoted by the Global Compact Network Italy Foundation with the collaboration of VIU and the support of FriulAdria and Edison SpA.

VIU is among the 25 business and non-business subjects present as case-study on the Italian Business & SDGs Web Gallery launched by the Global Compact Network Italy (GCNI):

http://www.webgallery.globalcompactnetwork.org/web-gallery/33-the-viu-educational-and-networking-path-to-promote-circular-economy.html

The Web Gallery is an online platform that aims to collect, share and valorize experiences and practices of Italian companies and organizations supporting the implementation of the Goals of Sustainable Development (SDGs) of the United Nations. It is conceived as a tool to investigate and analyze motivations, processes, strategies, as well as results and lessons learned, related to the integration of SDGs by business and non-business actors.

June 25 – July 19, 2018

Since 2014, Waseda University runs a four-week summer session for undergraduates. In 2017 highly motivated international students from 70 universities in 13 different countries participated.