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SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production

Wandering Across Sustainable Terrains and Environments

July 7-12, 2025

Call for applications: closed

The PhD Academy is led by:

- Duke University
- Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
- University of Exeter 
- Iuav University of Venice

The performing arts contribute to the environmental humanities, foregrounding their role in understanding and tackling the environmental crisis. In this PhD Academy, this relation will be interrogated from the viewpoint of the

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Framing Global Change and Green Economy in the Sustainable Development Goals

September 12-16, 2016

Scientific Coordinator
Prof. Carlo Giupponi, Dean of VIU and Director of Venice Centre for Climate Studies, Professor of Environmental Economics, Dept. Economics, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia

Organized in collaboration with Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, PhD in Science and Management of Climate Change.

Science and Technology Studies

International PhD Academy

January 8-15, 2016

Science & Technology Studies (STS) is an interdisciplinary field, bringing together sociology, history, philosophy, sociology and related social science and humanities approaches. STS looks at science and technology (S&T) as a means of asking about the creation of facts, technological objects, and scientific knowledge, examining the ways in which S&T are embedded in social life.

Global Challenges Series: WATER

International PhD Academy
8-13 May 2017

This is the first in the Global Challenges Series of VIU International PhD Academies. Each intensive PhD Academy will focus on a major societal challenges faced by humankind today, which will be addressed via multidisciplinary approaches, involving high-level speakers selected among the VIU member institutions but whose remarks will be adapted to a broad cohort of the VIU community.

Global Challenges Initiatives: Sustainable Energy

International PhD Academy
9-13 July 2018

This is the second of the Global Challenges Initiatives of VIU International PhD Academies. Each Initiative will focus on a major societal challenge faced by humankind today, which will be addressed via multidisciplinary approaches, involving high-level speakers selected among the VIU member institutions but whose remarks will be adapted to a broad cohort of the VIU community.