Sustainable Development Goals
SDG 14 Life Below Water
Plastic Pollution and Bioplastic Materials
International PhD Academy
VIU Global Challenges Initiative
September 27 – October 1, 2021
Learning from Geoenvironmental Data: Tools for a Changing Planet
May 23-27, 2022
This Graduate Seminar will be led by:
- IUAV University of Venice, Italy
- University of Lausanne, Switzerland
- Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Defining the Human in Environmental Humanities
VIU Global Challenges Initiative
June 6-11, 2022
This Graduate Seminar will be led by:
- Boston College, USA
- Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Germany
Hydrogeophysical Inversion and Data Assimilation for the Characterization and Monitoring of Coastal Aquifers
VIU Global Challenges Initiative
July 1-5, 2019
This Graduate Seminar will be led by:
- Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Canada (Prof. Erwan Gloaguen, Scientific coordinator)
- University of Lausanne, Switzerland
- Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy
In cooperation with
- Laval University, Canada
- University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Northern Territories and Indigenous Peoples: Comparative perspectives
14 – 19 January, 2018
Leading Universities
- Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Québec/Canada (Prof. Carole Lévesque, Scientific coordinator)
- European University at St. Petersburg, Russia (Prof. Nikolai Vakhtin, Scientific coordinator)
Understanding and Managing Climate Change: Coping with Sea Level Rise
10-22 July 2017
The 2017 Seminar will be led by:
- Duke University (Sonia Silvestri, Scientific Coordinator)
- National Research Council of Italy
- Università degli Studi di Padova
- Universitá Ca’ Foscari Venezia
- Università IUAV Venezia
- INRS University
- KU Leuven
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.