Since 2000 the European Association of Environmental and Resources Economists (EAERE), the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), and Venice International University (VIU) have been successfully running their European Summer School in Resource and Environmental Economics. The broader objective of this series of events is to provide advanced training for young researchers from all over Europe and beyond on European issues of environmental and resource economics.

 

 

 

 

 

The European Association of Environmental and Resources Economists (EAERE), the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), and Venice International University (VIU) are pleased to announce their annual European Summer School in Resource and Environmental Economics for postgraduate students

 

 

2016 Summer School EAERE-FEEM-VIU

Field Experiments in Environmental and Resource Economics

 

Venice, June 26th- July 2nd, 2016

 

The 2016 Summer School will take place from June 26th to July 2nd at the VIU campus on the Island of San Servolo, in Venice, located just in front of St. Mark's Square. The topic covered by the 2016 Summer School is the Field Experiments in Environmental and Resource Economics.

 

Over the past years field experiments have flourished in environmental and resource economics. The 2016 EAERE Summer School aims at discussing the most relevant research about field experimentation, with direct relevance of environmental economics. Key relevant topics will be explored in depth, including preferences, resources and valuation, cooperation, energy and water conservation, development and growth, as well as climate change. Classes will discuss the latest developments in the literature, and students will have the chance to present their own work in front of the class and the faculty.

 

This School is organised in partnership with the project COBHAM "The role of consumer behaviour and heterogeneity in the integrated assessment of energy and climate policies", a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant funded by the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) / ERC grant agreement n° 336155. The objective of COBHAM - hosted by Politecnico di Milano in collaboration with the Euro- Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC) - is to study behavior and interactions among individuals and their impact on energy efficiency and climate change mitigation.

 

Faculty and Lecture Topics:

 

John LIST (School co-coordinator)

University of Chicago

Topic: Field experiments in environmental and resource economics

 

Massimo TAVONI(School co-coordinator)

Politecnico di Milano and FEEM

Topic: Climate change

 

Giovanna D'ADDA

Politecnico di Milano

Topic: Environment and development

 

Andreas LANGE

University of Hamburg

Topic: International agreements and cooperation

 

Michael PRICE

Georgia State University

Topic: Energy and water

 

Daan P. VAN SOEST

Tilburg University

Topic: Resources

 

Admission and Scholarships

The Summer School is targeted to PhD and postgraduate students. Admission is conditional on the presentation of each student's doctoral work; therefore PhD students who want to apply normally need to be advanced in their PhD to have produced at least one substantive chapter, but not to have necessarily completely finished their thesis. Application is restricted to 2016 EAERE members, both European and non-European citizens.

Given the highly interactive activities planned at the Summer School, the number of participants is limited to 20.

There is no participation fee. All applicants can apply for a scholarship.

 

Application - 2016 Summer School

 

Deadlines

All applications must arrive to the Summer School Secretariat by the 1st of February, 2016.

 

All applications must arrive to the Summer School Secretariat by the February 1st, 2016.

Acceptance notifications will be sent out from the March 1st, 2016. Final papers for presentation must be received by the Summer School Secretariat before the June 1st, 2016. Accepted applicants that do not respect the following deadlines will not be admitted to the Summer School.

 

Further information

For further information on application and funding please access the Summer School Website or contact the Summer School Secretariat.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2015 Summer School EAERE-FEEM-VIU

European Summer School on Environmental Regulation

 

Venice, June 28th- July 4th, 2015

 

The 2015 Summer School will take place from June 28th- July 4th at the VIU campus on the Island of San Servolo, in Venice, located just in front of St. Mark's Square.

The topic covered by the 2015 Summer School is the economic analysis of environmental regulation.

 

No restriction is put on methods used - theoretical, econometric and experimental approaches will be covered.

The school will be of interest to those working on topics including (but not limited to) economics of standards, pollution taxes, tradable permits, comparative performance of instruments, Self-regulation, Information-based regulation, disclosure programs and green labeling, Impacts of regulation on R&D and innovation, Enforcement and compliance, Assessing the impact of regulations on behavior, Cost-benefit analysis of actual regulations, International coordination of regulation, Formal analysis of regulatory institutions, Political economy of environmental regulation.

 

 

Faculty:

 

School co-ordinator: Anthony HEYES

 

Anthony HEYES (School co-coordinator)

University of Ottawa

Topic: Behavioural Environmental Regulation

 

Stefan AMBEC 

Toulouse School of Economics

Topic: Environmental Regulation: Theory

 

Timo GOESCHL

Heidelberg University

Topic: Environmental Regulation: Experimental Methods

 

Matthew NEIDELL

Columbia University

Topic: Environmental Regulation: Empirical Methods

 

Roberton C. WILLIAMS III

University of Maryland

Topic: Market-Based Instruments

 

Programme - 2015

Summer School The Summer School is designed to last for 6 days and consists of about 35 contact hours and further several hours of scheduled reading and consultation time. The content of the School is a mixture of lectures, student presentations, consultation and reading sessions.

The activities open with a Welcome and Introduction session, in which the Summer School topics are introduced. A general open discussion, where all the lecturers are invited to briefly present their topics, can be organised to facilitate the students to become soon more familiar with the lecturers’ topics.

 

Each lecturer is expected to give a 3 hours lecture, split into 2 x 1.5 hour sessions. Each student is also expected to make a presentation of about 40 minutes, which include also the time for questions and discussion. Students' papers must be completed and sent to the Summer School Secretariat by the 1st of June, 2015. In order to get prepared to the School, students will receive in advance all the available teaching material and the papers presented by the other participants.

 

In the reading sessions students can privately take their time to go into what really interest them thoroughly.

 

During consultation sessions students can privately consult with lecturers. It is up to the students to ask directly to a lecturer for a private meeting. Group consultations can be organised too. Private or group meetings during the consultation time can be held inside the classroom, which remains open until the end of the consultation session, or in any other available space of the VIU Campus such as in the cafeteria, in the beautiful garden surrounding the campus or in the campus' common areas. It is up to the students and lecturers to make the consultation as much formal or informal as they prefer. Also working groups can be organised during the consultation time. We strongly encourage all the students to take most advantage of the consultation time from the very beginning of the School.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EAERE-FEEM-VIU European Summer School in Resource and Environmental Economics
The Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change

 

July 6th - 12th 2014 - Venice, Italy

 

The European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE), Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) and Venice International University (VIU) are pleased to announce their annual European Summer School in Resource and Environmental Economics for postgraduate students.

 

The 2014 Summer School will take place from July 6th - 12th, at the VIU campus on the Island of San Servolo, in Venice, located just in front of St. Mark's Square. The theme of this Summer School is The Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change.

 

There is no doubt that both adaptation and mitigation will be necessary to reduce the impact of anthropogenic global warming on the economy. The objective of the School is to provide tools and methods to understand how economists frame the problem of adaptation to climate change. The lectures will start with an introduction to the theory of adaptation to climate change and will then focus on specific sectors or impacts – tropical cyclones, agriculture, forestry and ecosystems, water. Two final lectures will introduce the use of integrated assessment modeling tools to study optimal adaptation to climate change.

 

The Summer School is aimed at Ph.D. students that are already writing a thesis on the economics of adaptation to climate change and want to engage into a highly interactive exchange with experts in the field. Students will be asked to present an advanced version of their research work and will receive valuable feedback from fellow students and from the School professors. Students will also be assigned a tutor that will provide individual feedback during consultation time.

 

 

FACULTY and LECTURE TOPICS

 

Brian H. HURD, Professor of Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business, New Mexico State University
Topic: Concepts and Methods for Assessing Water Sector Responses to Climate Change

 

Emanuele MASSETTI, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei - FEEM (School Coordinator)
Topic: Adaptation in Agriculture

 

Robert MENDELSOHN, Sterling Professor of Economics, Yale University (School Coordinator)
Topic: Introduction and tropical cyclones

 

Brent SOHNGEN, Professor of Economics, Ohio State University
Topic: Forestry and Ecosystems

 

Richard S. J. TOL, Professor of Economics, University of Sussex
Topic: Sea level rise and Integrated assessment modeling

 

 

ADMISSION AND SCHOLARSHIPS

 

The Summer School is targeted to PhD and postgraduate students. Admission is conditional on the presentation of each student's doctoral work; therefore PhD students who want to apply normally need to be advanced in their PhD to have produced at least one substantive chapter, but not to have necessarily completely finished their thesis.
Application is restricted to 2014 EAERE members, both European and non-European citizens.

 

Given the highly interactive activities planned at the Summer School, the number of participants is limited to 20.
There is no participation fee. All applicants can apply for a scholarship.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Since 2000 the European Association of Environmental and Resources Economists (EAERE), the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), and Venice International University (VIU) have been successfully running their European Summer School in Resource and Environmental Economics.

The broader objective of this series of events is to provide advanced training for young researchers from all over Europe and beyond on European issues of environmental and resource economics.

 

 

2015 Summer School EAERE-FEEM-VIU

European Summer School on Environmental Regulation

 

Venice, June 28th- July 4th, 2015

 

The 2015 Summer School will take place from June 28th- July 4th at the VIU campus on the Island of San Servolo, in Venice, located just in front of St. Mark's Square.

The topic covered by the 2015 Summer School is the economic analysis of environmental regulation.

 

No restriction is put on methods used - theoretical, econometric and experimental approaches will be covered.

The school will be of interest to those working on topics including (but not limited to) economics of standards, pollution taxes, tradable permits, comparative performance of instruments, Self-regulation, Information-based regulation, disclosure programs and green labeling, Impacts of regulation on R&D and innovation, Enforcement and compliance, Assessing the impact of regulations on behavior, Cost-benefit analysis of actual regulations, International coordination of regulation, Formal analysis of regulatory institutions, Political economy of environmental regulation.

 

 

Faculty:

 

School co-ordinator: Anthony HEYES

 

Anthony HEYES (School co-coordinator)

University of Ottawa

Topic: Behavioural Environmental Regulation

 

Stefan AMBEC 

Toulouse School of Economics

Topic: Environmental Regulation: Theory

 

Timo GOESCHL

Heidelberg University

Topic: Environmental Regulation: Experimental Methods

 

Matthew NEIDELL

Columbia University

Topic: Environmental Regulation: Empirical Methods

 

Roberton C. WILLIAMS III

University of Maryland

Topic: Market-Based Instruments

 

Programme - 2015

Summer School The Summer School is designed to last for 6 days and consists of about 35 contact hours and further several hours of scheduled reading and consultation time. The content of the School is a mixture of lectures, student presentations, consultation and reading sessions.

The activities open with a Welcome and Introduction session, in which the Summer School topics are introduced. A general open discussion, where all the lecturers are invited to briefly present their topics, can be organised to facilitate the students to become soon more familiar with the lecturers’ topics.

 

Each lecturer is expected to give a 3 hours lecture, split into 2 x 1.5 hour sessions. Each student is also expected to make a presentation of about 40 minutes, which include also the time for questions and discussion. Students' papers must be completed and sent to the Summer School Secretariat by the 1st of June, 2015. In order to get prepared to the School, students will receive in advance all the available teaching material and the papers presented by the other participants.

 

In the reading sessions students can privately take their time to go into what really interest them thoroughly.

 

During consultation sessions students can privately consult with lecturers. It is up to the students to ask directly to a lecturer for a private meeting. Group consultations can be organised too. Private or group meetings during the consultation time can be held inside the classroom, which remains open until the end of the consultation session, or in any other available space of the VIU Campus such as in the cafeteria, in the beautiful garden surrounding the campus or in the campus' common areas. It is up to the students and lecturers to make the consultation as much formal or informal as they prefer. Also working groups can be organised during the consultation time. We strongly encourage all the students to take most advantage of the consultation time from the very beginning of the School.

 

Application - 2015 Summer School

 

Deadlines

All applications must arrive to the Summer School Secretariat by the 1st of February, 2015.

Acceptance notifications will be sent out from the 1st of March, 2015.

Final papers for presentation must be received by the Summer School Secretariat before the 1st of June, 2015.

Accepted applicants that do not respect the following deadlines will not be admitted to the Summer School.

 

 

 

The Venice International University and the International Waste Working Group (IWWG)  organize intensive courses on Sustainable Waste Management.

 

Past editions:

 

Winter School on "Anaerobic Digestion: technologies, processes, design and research advancements"

 

 

 

The Venice International University and the International Waste Working Group (IWWG)

organize a Sustainable Waste Management Winter School on "Anaerobic Digestion: processes, technology, design and research advancement"

 

What is it about?
Anaerobic Digestion - AD - plays a fundamental role in modern waste management strategies and represents the best solution available today for the treatment of the biodegradable fraction of waste. AD technology optimizes sustainability targets by recovering and recycling resources and by reducing uncontrolled emissions of GHG that may occur in landfills. In the framework of the VIU-IWWG Winter School on Anaerobic Digestion, highly qualified experts will provide an in-depth insight into the processes governing AD, as well as detailed information on the technologies in use (both dry and wet), design protocols, calculation procedures, and the status and perspectives of scientific investigation in this field

 

Topics covered by the course include:
Anaerobic Processes
Substrates for Anaerobic Digestion
Anaerobic Digestion Technologies and Design
Treatment and use of biogas
Digestate Management
Biohydrogen Generation
Test Systems
Co-digestion

Anaerobic Digestion plants for developing countries

 

Program structure:
The course duration is nine days. Students will attend in-class lectures, participate in sessions of the Venice 2014 - Fifth International Symposium on Energy from Biomass and Waste, and take part in a field trip to two anaerobic digestion plants. During the whole duration of the school students will have the possibility to discuss their individual research activity. Additionally all students will work in groups developing new ideas while working on an assigned research projects. The groups will be supervised by tutors.
Social activities will be organized in the evenings.
Minimum number of students: 16, maximum number of students 30.

 

Who can apply?
Master students who have completed all of their required course work, PhD students and young researchers from any university and any discipline with an interest in waste management. Applicants familiar with these subjects and already working in private companies or public administrations are welcome. All participants must be able to communicate fluently in English.

 

Duration and period:
15-22 November 2014

 

Location:
Venice International University, Island of San Servolo, Venice (Italy).

 

List of courses:
History, role and perspectives of Anaerobic Digestion in Waste Management Strategies
Anaerobic Processes: Theory
Anaerobic Processes: Experimental assessment and results
Description and characteristics of different substrates for Anaerobic Digestion
Anaerobic Digestion Technologies
Anaerobic Digestion Plants Design
Operation of Anaerobic Digestion Plants and Safety Issues
Treatment and use of biogas
Digestate Management
Biohydrogen Generation
Test Systems
Co-digestion : options and cases
Small Anaerobic Digestion plants for developing countries

 

Lecturers:
Luca Alibardi, University of Padova, Italy
Werner Bidlingmaier, Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany
William Clarke, The University of Queensland, Australia
Luis Diaz, CalRecovery, USA (invited)
Piet Liens, UNESCO-IHE
Paolo Pavan, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Pinjing HE, Tongji University, China
Marco Ritzkowski, University of Hamburg-Harburg, Germany
Cristina Trois, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
Rainer Stegmann, University of Hamburg-Harburg, Germany
Jiane Zuo, Tsinghua University, China (invited)

 

More information:

Informational Brochure

 

 

 

Summer School, July 11-20,  2014: Sustainable Landfilling and Final Sink

 

 

 

 

Who is it for:

Master students who have completed all of their required course work, PhD students and young researchers from any university and any discipline with an interest in waste management able to read and write fluently in English. Applicants familiar with these subjects and already working in private companies or public administrations are welcome.

Course aim:

Waste management is experiencing a fast transition from landfilling to sophisticated recycling and waste to energy plants. The summer school aims to give students an overview of the most recent and advanced technologies developed for the management of sustainable landfills. Activities linked to this broad topic range from the setup of a landfill, to the operational management of the site, including the exploitation of the gas produced, to the aftercare and remediation. Participants will be able to analyze the management of an existing landfill during a full day site visit. By putting into practice what they learn during the class lectures, they will prepare and present a project or research hypothesis on how to improve the management of landfill.

Topics:

Topics covered by the course include:
• Landfill concepts and behaviour
• Long fate of elements
• Gas management
• Leachate management
• Aftercare
• Remediation and reuse
• Global health and climate change: future scenarios in coastal areas

Course organization:

The course duration is nine days. Students will attend lectures, participate in a field trip on Wednesday and discuss possible project developments in working group as well as present their research projects.
Social activities will be organised in the evenings.
Minimum number of students: 18, maximum number of students 30.

Duration and period:

11 - 20 July 2014

Location:

Venice International University, Island of San Servolo, Venice (Italy).

 

 

List of courses

Course title
Mass Balance
Different Landfill Models
Landfill Processes
Biological Reactor Behaviour
Idromechanical Behaviour
Final Storage Quality
Nitrogen in Landfill
Biogas Modelling
Technology and Energy Recovery
Natural Attenuation, Covers, etc.
Generation, Quality
Treatment, Recirculation
In Situ Aeration
Energy from Landfilling
Aftercare Aspects
Remediation and Reuse Criteria
Landfill Mining

 

 

 

 

 

The VIU Summer Institute on Ageing offers a “state-of-the-art” program which will provide the students with a thorough understanding of the ageing process, ranging from recent advances of the medical and epidemiological literature, to an extensive treatment of the economic dimension (pensions and long term care) and of the sociological dimensions (intergenerational transfers, role of family networks). Special attention will be given to the use of large micro-data sets, such as SHARE (Survey of Health Ageing and Retirement in Europe) and sister surveys: the HRS, ELSA, TILDA, CHARLS     2017 edition: June 5-10, 2017   This edition of the VIU_Summer Institute will have a focus on Global Ageing, Vulnerability and Disability      Brochure - download here   Application form: apply before April 30  Detailed program -  NEW!!!     Introduction The VIU Summer Institute on ageing will: provide students and trainees with a thorough understanding of the ageing process, offering notions of the medical and epidemiological recent literature to the socio-economic advances in this research area enhance the multidisciplinary approach for researchers who work on ageing provide “hands on” experience on the micro data-sets increase the mobility and the inter-connectivity of PhD students, researchers, teaching staff and policy makers, hence favouring the creation of research networks Learning outcomes participants will gain special insight into the recent advances of the ageing process from a theoretical and practical point of view and will be able to perform impact evaluation (e.g. health care costs); participants will learn how to use the data in this area of research participants will be offered the opportunity to share their ideas in a poster-sessions and during social events participants will develop transversal competences based on a multidisciplinary approach. Specific training sessions, such as “revolving conversations”, will take place. policy makers and people involved in public policy and public services will be able to learn how to connect issues between the health dimension of ageing and the socio-economic dimension of ageing. Who can apply The Summer Institute is addressed mainly to graduate and PhD students in social sciences (economics, sociology, demography, political science), to MDs particularly geriatrics, students in epidemiology, public health. Moreover, policy makers and high-level officials in public and private institutions will be admitted if their background is adequate   Program structure The Summer Institute will consist of three blocks of activities 1. Morning lectures from leading researchers addressing the most recent advances in the area. Presentations in the fields of biomedicine, geriatrics, genetics, epidemiology, patient care, psychiatry, as well as economics of ageing, pension economics and finance, health economics, public health, demography and sociology. 2 Hands on sessions in the afternoon. Provide students a thorough presentation of the survey data on ageing available to the scientific community. The 2017 VIU-Summer Institute will focus on datasets such as SHARE, ELSA, TILDA, CHARLS. 3. Poster sessions and revolving conversations Students are invited to prepare a poster about their ongoing research: a paper they are working on or other preliminary work. Poster sessions will be held typically around lunch-time: students will have the opportunity to discuss their own research with the senior scholars. Studentswill be askedto take part to dedicated interactive sessions, such as “revolving conversations”, aimed at discussing new research ideas.   Tuition fees Tuition fees are 1,000 euro including VAT. The tuition fee covers also accommodation (double rooms) and meals expenditures arranged by VIU. Candidates can request a grant in order to support tuition expenses. The Summer School is co-organized by Venice International University, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Université de Lausanne, Università degli Studi di Padova, Università di Roma Tor Vergata.   Duration June 5 - 10, 2017 Applications deadline: April 30, 2017   Location San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy   Contact and info: Tea Stifanic Tel: (0039) 0412719511 Email: ageing@univiu.org

 

 

Past editions: 

2016 edition: June 6 - 10, 2016 

2015 edition: June 8 - 12, 2015 

2014 edition: June 3 - 7, 2014

2013 edition: June 7-13, 2013

 

For further information visit the past editions page.