Sustainable Development Goals
SDG 6 Clean Water and Sanitation
Practicing New Imaginaries: ‘Re-presencing’ Venice in the Time of Climate Change
July 3-8, 2023
Applications closed
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
Cities and Water in a Time of Climate Change
International PhD Academy
February 14-18, 2022
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
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
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.
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.