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Summer Institute on Ageing

Longevity: Mutual Support Across Generations

June 8-12, 2026

13th edition

Call for applications: closed

Summer Institute on Ageing | Past Editions

The Summer Institute provides students and early-career researchers with a multidisciplinary and rigorous understanding of the ageing process, ranging from some basic notions of the medical and epidemiological literature, to an extensive treatment of economics (pensions and retirement, ageing in society and intergenerational relationships) and of the sociological dimensions (intergenerational transfers, role of family networks).

Visualizing Cities Summer Institute | Past Editions

Digital Technologies for Historical and Cultural visualization are transforming the ways that scholars can study and represent works of art, as well as growth and change in urban spaces and buildings. Interdisciplinary teams focus on the hard questions of Digital Art History as a discipline, a set of methods, and a host of technical and institutional challenges and opportunities.

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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Rethinking Rural Futures in an Age of Climate Change: Migration, Adaptation, and Sustainability Transitions

May 12-17, 2025

Call for applications: December 2, 2024 – January 31, 2025

The PhD Academy is led by:

- Duke University
- Exeter University
- Stellenbosch University

Rural communities are particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, having long relied on farming, fishing, and the natural environment for their livelihoods. Strategies to enhance climate resilience and to support rural flourishing will

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Law and the Global Economy. Training the Next Generation of Academic Leaders

September 15-19, 2025

Call for applications: January 15 – May 15, 2025

The PhD Academy is led by:

- University of Padua, Italy
- University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
- University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
- Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- KU Leuven

The world is currently witnessing a significant

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Critical Phenomenology: Theory and Applications

June 2-6, 2025

Call For Application: December 2, 2024 – February 2, 2025

The Graduate Seminar is led by:
- University of Padua, Italy
- University of Exeter, United Kingdom
- Boston College, USA

Phenomenology has gained significant traction in recent decades, particularly due to a scientific rehabilitation of the first-person perspective and the realization of the cultural and bodily conditionality of experience.

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Science Communication and Education

Focus
All stakeholders, from researchers to professionals, policy makers and citizens must contribute to achieve sustainable development and the SDGs.  Researchers have to provide the acquired knowledge, whereas professionals and policy makers need the capacity to face and manage complex issues. Citizens’ engagement is necessary in order to promote a constructive dialogue that supports both research and policy.