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What We Do in Creativity, Innovation and Design

Relevant projects carried out in Creativity, Innovation and Design

Upskill 4.0 (2022-2024)
VIU and Upskill collaborate on the themes of the competitiveness of the territories, the ecosystems of innovation, the impact of higher technical training on the competitiveness of enterprises. The main objective of the research is to develop paths of technological and social innovation by making schools, companies and territories collaborate.

Homo Faber (2018 and 2022)
Michelangelo Foundation appointed Tedis and particularly Stefano Micelli, its Scientific Director as expert to collaborate in the concept of their Homo Faber project, to select some of the artisans that took part of the exhibition and to curate the automotive pavillion.

Bond Factory (2019/2020)
D-House, a Lab for the new technologies of Fashion: TeDIS carries out a study for the development of an innovative laboratory capable of accelerating digital transformation processes in the fashion sector with particular attention to the issues of the green economy and the training of new professional figures.

VIU Graduate Seminar: "rethinking manufacturing, consumption and globalizaton in the era of automation" (2019)
Twenty years ago, the TeDIS Center has been developed proposing a specific line of research devoted to study the relationship between the rise of network technologies and the model of organization of economic activities. The present competitive scenario is characterized by the rise of a new set of technologies that are reshaping the way production and consumption is organized. This VIU Graduate Seminar aims offers a training opportunity to discuss the challenges of this new scenario, providing a framework to interpret the deep transformations that will occur at multiple levels – firms, countries, consumers / citizens, cities.

TourPMI (2017/2018/2019)
is one of the innovation projects of Banca IFIS Impresa which aims to tell the Bank through its client companies.
Banca IFIS every month selected the companies among all the Italian regions and met the entrepreneurs directly in their productive realities for a storytelling through the development of mini-documentaries describing their stories. Tedis contributed to the concept development and to the storytelling management. 

First Draft (from 2004 to 2019)
A blog for discussions related to craftsmanship, design, globalization of SMEs, competitiveness. 

Italian Association City of Ceramics (2017/2108)
Tedis carried out a research on the "go-to-market" model strategy declinated to the Ceramics sector.

PIM Center (2017/2018)
Tedis has been appointed by PIM to collaborate in a research analyzing the revitalization of city centers through the artisans labs and shops as key factor of the economic reinassance of urban life.

Digital Artisan Lab (2015/2016)
IFIS bank appointed TeDIS to implement a communication plan on digital workshops in order to show how traditional Italian companies of Made in Italy had the capacity to transform theirselves in companies confronting the global economic challenges thanks to the new technologies of the digital manufacturing.
the activities carried on were:
-to develop a communication format and platform where to higlights the workshops case studies;
-to identify the case studies to be part of the video platform.
Digital Artisan Lab is the container committed to create a storytelling of this path and of this transformation. 

Maker Faire Rome (2014/2016)
showcase of invention, creativity and resourcefulness of the "Makers Movement".
TeDIS has been appointed by Innovacamera (Chamber of Commerce of Rome) to carry on dissemination and supporting activities within the framework of the Maker Faire 2016, 2015 and 2014, that were held in Rome annually in October.
Activities developed:
-Manufacturing hackathon: Planning and coordination of manufacturing hackathon held in locations identified by the Chamber of Commerce of Rome.
- Makers school: creation of a national network of technical and vocational schools that participated in setting up prototypes and projects to be presented during the events that took place in the Innovation Week
- Digital artisans: selection of a group of craftsmen who were able to transform their traditional business.
- Call for school: Italian schools participated to the annual call for application.

Digital Manifacturing  (2015):
Fondazione Make in Italy appointed TeDIS to carry on parts of its research on:
- digital manifacturing for growth and productivity
- companies strategies transformation
- digital manifacturing and innovation of Made in Italy
- the evolution of Fab Lab business models
The data analysis supported by questionnaires and case studies focussed on the impact of technologies on digital manifaturing and on the evolution of companies strategies.

Valore artigiano (2013/2014)
The Artisans Federation of Entrepreneurs of Vicenza (FAIV) appointed TeDIS to design and implement a series of Workshops and Labs addressed to young designers coming from the main European Design Schools to promote the linkages between local artisans and contemporary designers in order to develop an innovative approach to the artisan world. 

Main Publications related to this focus area

Micelli. S.: "Fare è innovare: il nuovo lavoro artigiano"; Il Mulino ed., May 2016
Bettiol M., (2015), Raccontare il Made in Italy. Un nuovo legame tra cultura e manifattura, Venezia, Marsilio
Bettiol M., Micelli S. (2014), “The hidden side of design: the relevance of artisanship”, Design Issues, Winter 2014, Vol. 30, No. 1: 7–18
Micelli, S.: "Futuro Artigiano: l'innovazione nelle mani degli italiani", Marsilio I Grilli ed., June 2011
Micelli, S; Mannino, I.(curators): "L'innovazione diventa sostenibile"; Giovani imprenditori Unindustria Treviso ed., April 2011
Bettiol M; Chiarvesio M; Micelli S.; "Innovazione, performance e design nelle imprese leader dei distretti industriali italiani"; in Baglieri E; Lojacono G; (curators), "Vincere con le idee", Egea ed., 2009
Bettiol M., Micelli S.: "Design e creatività nel made in Italy. Proposte per i distretti industriali", Bruno Mondadori ed., 2005

What We Do in Innovation in Public Administration

Relevant projects carried out in Innovation in Public Administration

- Innovative service models for Veneto Region (2014/2016):
Engineering Informatica appointed TeDIS to analyze and develop innovative service models, such as: 
- fab lab: development of open labs on digital manufacturing
- open wifi: set up the operative steps to spread the open wifi in Veneto Region involving municipalities
- broadband: analysis of broadband evolution and set up of an operative guideline for the management of the National Plan for the optical fiber.

- P3@Veneti  (2015)
Veneto Innovazione appointed TeDIS to give advice to project governance actions in support of the access points and to provide a review report on the project activities.
The project aimed to create, in collaboration with the Municipalities of Veneto Region, public spaces addressed to citizens helping them to access the internet services provided by the Public Administration.

- Valorization of Cultural Heritage in Veneto Region (2008/2010)
TeDIS has supported Veneto Region in introducing a new models of valorization and communication of Veneto Cultural Heritage developing two initiatives:
- "Ambassador of Venitian Culture Award" that on July 1st 2010 was awarded to Lady Frances Clarke
- "Veneto Movie School" that in 2010 involved 10 young filmmakers who were invited to spend two months in Veneto developing documentaries expressing their own original point of view on the region.
The award ceremony was held at the Terrace of the Excelsior Hotel in Venice Lido on September 10, 2010.
On December 3, 2010, the Veneto Movie School Videos was presented at the XIV^ Edition of the "Salone dei Beni Culturali", in Venice.

- Information Society Strategy development for Arpav (2008/2010)
The regional agency for the environmental protection in Veneto (Arpav) appointed TeDIS as scientific partner to support its strategies of development of on line services addressed to citizens accessing the Arpav website.

- Information Society strategy development for Veneto Region (2008/2010)
TeDIS supported Veneto Region in promoting and disseminating its activities and verifying the status of the art of the operative plan.

- My Portal (2005/2006)
TeDIS developed part of a Regional project related to the diffusion of online services for public administration addressed to citizens of the Mountain Communities of the Belluno Province.

- Citizen iTV (2006/2007)
An experimental project of Veneto Region focused on Digital Television as a new channel to deliver public contents and interactive services from local public bodies to citizens and companies.


Main Publications related to this focus area

- Vv.Aa., L. De Pietro (curator): "Dieci lezioni per capire e attuare l'egovernment"; Marsilio Ricerche ed., 2011
- Vv.Aa., L. De Pietro (curator): "L'evoluzione dei modelli e delle tecnologie per la partecipazione dei cittadini: l'esperienza del Consiglio Regionale del Veneto"; Marsilio ed., 2010
- Broad Band Diffusion in Veneto Region: Reports 2009 and 2010
- B. Da Ronch, L. De Pietro, I.Mannino, E. Mattiuzzo: "Strategie e approcci per la gestione del rischio industriale"; FrancoAngeli ed., 2009
- Vv.Aa.: "Citizens iTV: un modello di servizi per il territorio attraverso la televisione digitale terrestre. Il progetto sperimentale della Regione del Veneto"; FrancoAngeli, 2007.
- Di Maria E., Micelli S.: "On Line Citizenship. Emerging Technologies for European Cities"; Springer, 2004
- Di Maria E., Micelli S.: "Le frontiere dell’e-government: cittadinanza elettronica e riorganizzazione dei servizi"; FrancoAngeli, 2004

What We Do in Sustainable Logistics

Relevant projects carried out in Sustainable Logistics 

DISCO - Data-driven, Integrated, Syncromodal, Collaborative and Optimized urban freight meta model for a new generation of urban logistics and planning with data sharing at European Living Lab (2023/2026)
DISCO project is financed by the Horizon Europe Program. It 
aims at fast-tracking upscaling to a new generation of urban logistics and smart planning; enabling the transition to decarbonised and digital cities, delivering innovative frameworks and tools, and changing the Urban Logistics and Planning paradigm

VIU Summer School on Advanced Transportation, Logistics and Supply Chain Management (June 19-23, 2022)
The Summer school “Advanced Transportation, Logistics and Supply chain management Program - Aligning market needs with integrated transportation, logistics and land-use planning: a unified approach” is organized by Venice International University together with University of Naples Federico II.

SUSPORT: Sustainable Ports (2019/2023)
Sustainable Ports is a strategic project funded by the Interreg Italy-Croatia Program.
Priority Axis: Maritime transport; Specific object: Improve the quality, safety and environmental sustainability of marine and coastal transport services and nodes by promoting multimodality in the Program area.

SPROUT: Sustainable Policy RespOnse to Urban mobility Transition (2019/2023)
Financed by the H2020 Program. The project provides a new city-led innovative and data driven policy response to address the impacts of the emerging mobility patterns, digitally-enabled operating & business models, and transport users’ needs.

VIU Summer School on Advanced Transportation, Logistics and Supply Chain Management (from June 27th to July 2nd 2022)
The Summer school “Advanced Transportation, Logistics and Supply chain management Program - Aligning market needs with integrated transportation, logistics and land-use planning: a unified approach” is organized by Venice International University together with University of Naples Federico II.

- ICARUS: Intermodal Connections in Adriatic-Ionian Region to Upgrowth Seamless solutions for passenger (2019/2022)
The project is cofinanced by the Interreg Italy-Croatia Program. The program specific objective is to improve the quality, safety and environmental sustainability of marine and coastal transport services and nodes by promoting multimodality in the Program area. The project will improve passenger intermodal transport connections and eases coast –hinterland sustainable accessibility to promote car-independent lifestyles".

- PROMARES: Promoting maritime and multimodal freight transport in the Adriatic Sea (2019/2022)
The project is cofinanced by the Interreg Italy-Croatia Programme. The program specific objective is to improve the quality, safety and environmental sustainability of marine and coastal transport services and nodes by promoting multimodality in the Program area. The project will implement and develop coordinated strategies and pilot actions so as to apply the concept of "port clustering".

- VIU PhD Academy: Mobility challenges for future society (2019)
Mobility these days refers not only to a physical movement but also to the mobility of ideas and images. For the cities, especially the historical urban context, mobility is the topic in which public administrations face many of the challenges of the future society, such as equity, inclusion, sustainability, energy efficiency. This PhD Academy aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the issues related to the challenges of mobility in the future society.

- Transpogood Project (2018/2019):
Regional Association of Chambers of Commerce of Veneto appointed TeDIS to carry on the work package n.5 of the project: “guidelines and requirements for migrating to the Transpogood platform“; activity n. 5.1 “roadmap and forum discussion” and activity n.5.2 “impact on the private and public sector”. Transpogood is a project financed by the Italy-Croatia Program.

- SUPAIR: Sustainable Ports in the Adriatic-Ionian Region (2017/2019)
It is a project cofinanced by the Adriatic-Ionian Programme INTERREG V-B Transnational 2014-2020.
Ports are core nodes for multimodal transport in the Adriatic-Ionian basin and strategic key drivers for economic growth: reducing negative environmental impacts is essential for a sustainable development of the area. The project goal is the reduction of emissions from shipping and on-shore port operations, enhancing port authorities’ capacity to plan and implement low-carbon and multimodal transport and mobility solutions.

- Peripheral Access: Transnational cooperation and partnership for better public transport in peripheral and cross-border regions (2017/2020)
It is a project cofinanced by Central Europe Program. Peripheral Access improves mobility in specifically peripheral areas such as rural, remotely located or border regions. This is crucial as 93% of the EU territories are peripheral areas. The project will analyse this situation in detail and implement innovative pilot actions.

- Novelog: New Cooperative Business Model and Guidance for Sustainable City Logistics (2015/2018) 
It was a project cofinanced by H2020 Programme. The scope of the project was to enable the knowledge and understanding of freight distribution and service trips by providing guidance for implementing effective and sustainable policies and measures. This guidance supports the choice of applicable solutions for urban freight and transport services, and facilitates stakeholders collaboration and the development, field testing and transfer of the best governance and business models.

- Sus Freight: Sustainable Freight Transport (2013/2014) 
It was a project co-financed by the Alpine Space Program. SusFreight aimed at addressing the environmental problems related to transports through the natural bottleneck represented by the regions composing the Alpine Space geographical area.

- ACROSSEE: Accessibility improved at border Crossings for the integration of South East Europe (2012/2014) 
It was a project co-financed by the Transnational Cooperation Programme "South-East Europe", working in line with the new EU TEN-T Guidelines and aiming at improving cross-border accessibility in the South -East Europe Area. This objective was reached by promoting optimization of the existing network and extending the EU transport network model to the Western Balkans.

- Adria A: Accessibility and development of the Adriatic sea (2010/2014)
The project was cofinanced by Interreg Italia Slovenia Program and studied the metropolitan area between the Italian and Slovenian border, thanks to the integration of Slovenia in the Shengen area. The integration between the two areas in one macro area allows citizens and territory to augment its level of fruition. The idea was to link together by a a railway ring the urban areas of  Trieste and Capodistria, the port of Gorizia and Nova Gorica, the airports of Venice, Ronchi dei Legionari and Lubiana. The governance of this transnational territorial system requires an institutional network able to work together as a whole territorial system.

- EURIDICE: European Inter-Disciplinary Research on Intelligent Cargo for Efficient, Safe and Environment-friendly Logistics (2008/2013)
The project was co-financed by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration".
The prjoject developed the concepts, technological solutions and business models to establish an advanced information services for freight transportation in Europe. The project is built on the Intelligent Cargo concept, defined by the following vision statement:
“In three years time, most of the goods flowing through European freight corridors will be ‘intelligent’, i.e.: 
self-aware, context-aware and connected through a global telecommunication network to support a wide 
range of information services for logistic operators, industrial users and public authorities.”

- TRIM: Transport Infrastructure Monitoring (2008/2011)
The project was co-financed by the Interreg IV Italy Austria, European territorial cooperation 2007/2013.
The main objective was to guarantee the accessibility and reach the green goals through:
- improve traffic informatics infrastructure for the long term street management planning
- harmonize the structure of the graphic street signs contentsto better manage the traffic and the management of the street security.
- improve the transfer of information and the clearness of regulation for the better usage of graphics and infrastructure.
Lead partner: Government of Carinthia
Partners: Regione autonoma Friuli Venezia Giulia, Regione del Veneto Unità Complessa Logistica, Venice International University

- I_LOG: Industrial Logistics (2005/2006)
The project was cofinanced for the 50% by the European Commission through the Interreg IIIB CADSES funds and for the other 50 % from the Italian Ministry of Infrastructure and Transportation.
The lead partner was the Veneto Region.
Venice International University won a call for tender of the Veneto Region to implementat three logistic pilot projects in collaboration with three industrial districts of the North East of Italy, namely, Montebelluna: wood and furniture district, Treviso textile district, Verona marble district.
The project provided local SMEs with innovative tools to sustain their competitiveness and the reducing traffic congestions.

 

Whistleblowing

La Venice International University mette a disposizione, a tutti coloro che in buona fede intendono utilizzarli, dei canali di segnalazioni interni per segnalare dei comportamenti o eventi che possono configurarsi come violazioni:

  • di leggi o regolamenti (nazionali o dell’Unione Europea)
  • dei modelli organizzativi e gestionali adottati (ivi compreso, a titolo esemplificativo, per la normativa italiana, il Modello 231 e le procedure di legalità ivi richiamate

o comunque comportamenti o eventi che non risultano come violazioni di quanto previsto nel Codice Etico adottato da VIU.

Queste segnalazioni hanno lo scopo di tutelare l’interessa pubblico e l’integrità della Venice International University.

QUALI SONO I CANALI INTERNI PER EFFETTUARE UNA SEGNALAZIONE:

  • attraverso il portale web che garantisce l’anonimato e la riservatezza del Segnalante anche attraverso strumenti di crittografia raggiungibile dal seguente link
    https://univiu.integrityline.com/;
  • tramite la richiesta di un incontro diretto con il Comitato Gestione Whistleblowing (gestore della segnalazione), che deve fissarlo in un tempo ragionevole;
  • a mezzo posta ordinaria, indirizzata a Comitato Gestione Whistleblowing – VIU Isola di San Servolo 30133 Venice, Italy inserendo la segnalazione in due buste chiuse, includendo, nella prima, i dati identificativi del segnalante, unitamente a un documento di identità nel caso in cui il segnalante non voglia rimanere anonimo; nella seconda, l’oggetto della segnalazione; entrambe le buste dovranno poi essere inserite in una terza busta riportando, all’esterno, la dicitura “riservata al gestore della segnalazione”.

CHI PUO INVIARE UNA SEGNALAZIONE:

Tutti i soggetti interni o esterni alla VIU, che operano in Italia e all’estero, e da tutti coloro che operano in nome e/o per conto e/o nell’interesse di VIU o che ne abbiano rapporti professionali o d’affari nonché tutti coloro che non ricoprano più una delle posizioni indicate in precedenza.

COSA PUÒ ESSER SEGNALATO:

azioni, eventi o circostanze che:

  • costituiscano o possano costituire una violazione o un’induzione ad una violazione di leggi locali, nazionali internazionali; dei valori e dei principi stabiliti nel Codice Etico adottato da VIU; dei modelli organizzativi e gestionali adottati da VIU (ivi compreso, a titolo esemplificativo, per la normativa italiana, il Modello 231 e le procedure di legalità ivi richiamate);
  • causino o possano causare qualsiasi tipo di danno a VIU
  • siano identificate come pertinenti dalle normative applicabili localmente che disciplinano la materia del whistleblowing (Dir. UE 2019/1937).

 

GESTORE:

VIU ha istituito il Comitato Gestione Whistleblowing (CGW) quale Organismo collegiale, composto da 2 membri (due professionisti esterni che ricoprono anche il ruolo di componenti dell’Organismo di Vigilanza del Modello 231) responsabile della gestione del canale di segnalazione interno di VIU.

Winning idea of the 2019 Venice Climathon

Hackathon on Sustainable Mobility

October 26 -27, 2019
Venice International University

On the occasion of the Global Climathon day, Venice International University has co-organized the 2019 edition of the Venice Climathon, in collaboration with Venice Calls and the CMCC - Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change. The initiative, promoted by EIT Climate-KIC, was organized as a two-day Hackathon that took place in VIU venue on the island of San Servolo.
As a climate collective action taking place simultaneously in more than 100 cities in the world, the Climathon aims to unite innovators, entrepreneurs, students and professionals to foster innovative solutions to the city's climate challenges. In its fourth Venice’s edition, the focus of this year was on Sustainable Mobility, an extremely relevant theme for Venice fragile lagoon ecosystem and the interconnections between its islands and the historical city, the water landscape and the mainland.
Through conferences, panel discussions and team work sessions, the idea was to encourage innovative projects for the mobility of people and the transport of goods, that can address the urgent human challenges emblematically characterizing the life of the city (sea-level rise, city pollution, industry and mobility system, mass tourism, residential crisis of the city centers and gentrification).

The 2019 Edition of Climathon in Venice ended on October 27 with the awarding ceremony: after an intensive day of participants group work, the prize for the best idea went to the team “Young&Green” for the idea MyBoatYourBoat, a solution to reduce boats costs, emissions and traffic and incentivize green mobility in the city’s transport of goods through a sharing economy option. The concrete tool has been conceived as an online app offering the possibility to share free extra-spaces and the total costs of the transportation, and it is thought in particular for the main public target of companies with medium-small deliveries. The possible strategic partners to implement the project have been identified in public institutions and agencies.

See the presentation video of MyBoatYourBoat here below:

 

 

Team: Leonardo Ballarin, Lucia Baciu, Margherita Montavoci, Hajra Taufiq, Riccardo Tommasoni.

 

For more information, please visit climathon.climate-kic.org/en/venice.

About Climathon

Climathon is a year-round programme, with a solutions-hackathon at its core, translating climate action solutions into tangible projects, supporting climate positive businesses & start-ups and addressing local policy changes. It drives a global movement of change makers and innovators to help humanity achieve zero emissions in 20 to 30 years.
climathon.climate-kic.org/en/

Worldwide Mobility for Research Internships

The scholarship will not be on offer anymore starting from the 1st Semester 2024-25.

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For students enrolled in any master’s degree (including Laurea Magistrale) or 4-year bachelor's degree at one of VIU member universities who intend to pursue research for their thesis in themes related to the Globalization Program.

Participation includes attendance in a semester of the Globalization Program at VIU, followed by a research internship supported by a scholarship.

International thesis research fosters a global perspective, promotes cultural understanding, and contributes to the advancement of knowledge on a broader scale. It can play a crucial role in creating a more interconnected and informed global academic community, as well as:
- provide a broader and more comprehensive perspective on a given topic allowing researchers to consider a variety of cultural, social, economic, and political factors that may influence the subject of their study
- help researchers understand how cultural nuances may impact the interpretation and application of their findings
- contribute to the understanding of global complex challenges by considering diverse perspectives and experiences
- provide opportunities for networking and collaboration with researchers across borders leading to the exchange of ideas, methodologies, and resources
- enhance research rigor as researchers navigate a variety of challenges, such as language barriers, diverse research regulations, and logistical issues.

Mobility period
The research mobilities are for two to four months, after the student has completed their courses at VIU. The start and end dates are fixed in collaboration with the host organization and depend on the projects which the students will pursue. The mobilities are usually completed by the end of December in the academic year following the courses at VIU.

 

Destinations 
A candidate may request to visit any member university in a different country to their home university:
Boston College, USA
Duke University, USA
European University at St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
Korea University, Korea
KU Leuven, Belgium
Ludwig Maximilians Universität, Germany
Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Tsinghua University, China
Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Italy
Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy
Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy
Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”, Italy
Università Iuav di Venezia, Italy
Université de Bordeaux, France
University of Exeter, UK
University of Lausanne, Switzerland
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Waseda University, Japan

Any candidate from an Italian member university who is interested in a European member university is advised to consult the open calls for Erasmus+ mobility: www.univiu.org/erasmus. 

 

 

Zero Hunger’s Goal: the Global Challenge of a Sustainable and Quality Food for All

April 13-17, 2026

Call For Application: closed

This Graduate Seminar will be led by
- University of Milano-Bicocca
- University School for Advanced Studies (IUSS) of Pavia
- National Research Council of Italy (CNR)

One of the global challenges raised by climate change and pollution in relation to human society is to ensure access to a food that is sufficient, safe, nutritious and of quality. While climate change and pollution of the environment are partially caused by food production systems themselves, the same factors have also a direct negative impact on food security and food safety. According to the second objective of 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goal (“Zero Hunger”), a sustainable food production system has the following characteristics: (1) it reduces the use of pesticides and fertilisers, and their dispersion in the environment and water courses; (2) it prioritises local food production and short supply chain; (3) it minimises food waste at all stages of production and consumption; (4) it uses rationally water and energy resources.

The aim of the Graduate Seminar is to create a learning environment that allows young researchers to develop an interdisciplinary method and an international outlook on the theme of sustainable food. In order to be able to propose valid scientific answers to issues related to the right to food, it is necessary to train researchers able to interact at the international level, but also with a trans-disciplinary approach. In order to identify solutions to sustainable food systems, scholars and researchers need to learn how to share and communicate knowledge from different fields, such as law, economics, social sciences, medicine, nutrition, agro-ecology and biology.

In this vein, the proposed Graduate Seminar intends to suggest interdisciplinary interactive lessons in articulation with workshop activities that, through a bottom-up approach, will underline in particular how scientific and technological transformation impact diets, food regimes and food access in a global context and how related policies should be revised in order to tackle the common goals set in the 2030 SDGs and reaffirmed in the recent ‘2024 Pact for the Future’, under Action 3, to end hunger, eliminate food insecurity and all forms of malnutrition.

The major societal challenge of the right to sufficient and nutritious food in order to live a dignified and active life and its interrelation with scientific innovation will be addressed theoretically thanks to the contribution of scholars from different backgrounds and from different VIU member institutions, as well as from other non-member research centres and Universities, while incorporating an interactive training methodology to boost transversal skills and adopting innovative teaching.

Faculty
Dominique Barjolle, University of Lausanne 
Roberta Dameno, University of Milano-Bicocca (Scientific Coordinator)
Paolo A. Leone, National Research Council of Italy 
Axel Marx, KU Leuven
Giulia Mattavelli, University School for Advanced Studies (IUSS) of Pavia
Paola Palestini, University of Milano-Bicocca 
Carola Ricci, University School for Advanced Studies (IUSS) of Pavia (Co-Coordinator)
Laura Salamero Teixidó, University of Lleida 
Alessandra Stella, National Research Council of Italy 
Jan Wouters, KU Leuven
Andrea Zappalaglio, University of Leeds

Topics
- Food Quality, Local Systems and Ethical Matters
- Food, One Health and Biodiversity Conservation
- Food Sustainability and Waste Management
- Public Policy, Innovations and Food Systems
- Food, Armed Conflict and Human Rights

Who can apply?
This Graduate Seminar is offered to advanced Master, PhD students and junior researchers in Legal, Social, Economic and Political Sciences including International Relations; Biotechnology and Biosciences; Medical Health Sciences and Nutrition; Agricultural and Food Sciences; Agro-ecology; Food Psychology. 
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 €1150.00 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