TEN Program on Sustainability

The project "Towards a "Green Economy"" was developed in 2014 in cooperation with Enel Foundation and the Regional Environmental Center (REC). It aimed at critically review the concepts of green economy and green growth, particularly considering the energy-environment challenge, at a global level and also looking at local implications. At the same time, it tried to assess whether the world is ready to deal with a new green technological and social revolution, and which are the main strategic, political, financial and behavioral issues involved.

Tuesday, October 1, 2019,  Ca’ Dolfin Aula Magna

Scientific organizations insist that researchers should get more involved in outreach activities. Scientists are aware that they contribute positively to society, but confronted with the need to devote time and resources to communicating their results. The public is at times eager to know more, at times showing untrust towards scientists. Communicators are there to help, but they are rarely invited to give training within the institutions. Still, opportunities for scientists to get a train in communication techniques are increasing.
Is this enough? Are courses, seminars, workshops proving to be effective in training scientists in communication? Are institutions really aiming to improve their staff's communication skills? Are there new opportunities rising for both scientists and communicators?
In this panel a group of experts will share their views.

The event, open to the public, is organized within the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice “Research Communication Week”, in collaboration with EUPRIO and the EU2020 QUEST project, and is endorsed by ProESOF 2020 – Towards Trieste 2020 Euroscience Open Forum.

Event website 

Registration for the morning session

Registration for the afternoon sessions

Only EUPRIO and AICUN members can participate to the afternoon sessions.

Ca’ Foscari University colleagues, who are not AICUN neither EUPRIO members, are requested to open their account on MyEUPRIO, before registering to these activities. They can attend both the activities for free.

More information here.

Venice International University has renewed its engagement with the United Nations Global Compact and has recently published a report on the activities conducted since 2017.

VIU has been a member of the UNGC - United Nations Global Compact, since 2015. UNGC is a voluntary United Nations initiative that aims to encourage businesses worldwide to adopt sustainable and socially responsible policies.

In 2016, VIU then joined the GCNI - Global Compact Network Italy Foundation, the Italian branch of the UNGC.

Launched in 1999, the Global Compact initiative counts today 13000 corporate and other stakeholders participants, in 161 countries worldwide.Companies and institutions joining the Global Compact initiative publicly commit to align their corporate strategies and operations with the 10 Global Compact Principles on human rights, labor, environment and anti-corruption, and to take steps to support UN goals, in order to create a sustainable and inclusive global economy that delivers lasting benefits to people, communities and markets.

Local networks, as the Global Compact Network Italia Foundation (GCNI), work to advance the initiative and its 10 Principles at country level. They help companies understand what responsible business means within different national, cultural and language contexts and facilitate outreach, learning, policy dialogue, collective action and partnerships.

VIU is represented in the elected Board of the Global Compact Network Italia Foundation by Elena Semenzin from Ca' Foscari University.

VIU was technical partner in organizing and hosting the 1st edition of the Italian Business & SDGs Annual Forum, held at VIU premises on the island of San Servolo on Sept. 26, 2016.

The EU Commission has launched a Manifesto to maximise the accessibility of research results in the fight against COVID-19.

The manifesto provides guiding principles for beneficiaries of EU research grants for coronavirus prevention, testing, treatment and vaccination to ensure that their research results will be accessible for all and guarantee a return on public investment.