VIU News
October 30-31, 2021
6th Edition | Restart Venice | Registrations open
The Climathon Venice is an opportunity to learn, to meet the Ecosystem of Innovation in Venice, and to face the challenges of today, with the ultimate goal of creating value together.
Venice International University is scientific partner of the Climathon Venice 2021, a competition of ideas designed to develop innovative and sustainable projects that help to solve the climate crisis and boost our economy & society in this current pandemic.
VIU will offer an exceptional range of Intensive Graduate Activities in 2022.
Students and scholars from the member universities are encouraged to explore the programs on offer in 2022, and apply early to guarantee their place.
The programs are the outcome of intense collaboration among the universities and have been developed based on the mandate of the member universities through the VIU Academic Council.
There are three types of intensive graduate activity at VIU.
- VIU International PhD Academy
Interdisciplinary intensive programs on major societal challenges, with a parallel training program in transversal skills to prepare advanced PhDs for research careers in academia or in the private sector.
- VIU Graduate Seminars
Thematic intensive seminars, on a focused topic approached from a multidisciplinary perspective. The aim is to support early-career PhDs who are beginning their research and to facilitate interdepartmental cooperation. Significant cooperation among departments in the member universities is expected.
- VIU Summer/Winter Schools
VIU supports the development of VIU Summer Schools, which are intensive taught programs that are offered each year. They are addressed to students of varying levels; check each program brochure. The Schools are also open to applicants outside of the VIU membership.
We are facing a challenge: to protect our past for future generations. Climate change is affecting natural heritage, human life, and our cultural heritage. SMACH is a project in response to Climate Change. It promotes EU-Balkan cooperation within the Central European Initiative.
The unprecedented threat of climate change is posing a severe risk to human activities, due to the increasing frequency and magnitude of extreme events.
VIU is carrying out research defining a Socio‐Economic Regional Risk Assessment (SERRA) for the Belluno Province in partnership with Enel Foundation, and the Euro‐Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change (CMCC).
Communicating research and its results is increasingly important and requires specific skills. More and more researchers find themselves communicating their research directly to a wide audience, as it is the case with social media. This certainly might have a great impact in terms of visibility and recognition within the scientific community and, often, beyond. But what about if the communication of our research is not in fact so clear or coherent? What if instead of receiving “likes” we receive questioning comments leading to arduous debates?
SPROUT will participate at the POLIS Conference 2021, which will be held in Gothenburg on 1-2 December 2021.
The POLIS Annual Conference provides an opportunity for cities and regions to showcase their transport achievements to a large audience of mobility experts, practitioners and decision makers.
For further information about registration, programme and practical information please click here
In occasion of the 11th edition of the Ca' Foscari Short Film Festival (October 6-9, 2021), VIU is proud to present the four short films created by the students of the 3rd edition of the VIU Summer School on Films in Venice and Filming Venice. Professor Maria Roberta Novielli, Artistic Director and overall organizer of the Festival, is teaching Faculty at the Summer School.
The short films will be screened in four different locations, shown below, and we encourage you to go see them if you have the chance!
VIU's Intensive Graduate Activities bring students, researchers, and professors together in a collaborative environment to experiment with interdisciplinary approaches relevant to their studies and research. September has been a busy month on campus! There is a real sense of (almost) getting back to normal.
On September 6, the semester kicked off with the arrival of 140 students to San Servolo for the Globalization Program. Students from Italy, Germany, France, Belgium, UK, Russia, Tel Aviv, USA, Japan and Korea are taking courses in a range of disciplines on themes related Italy, Global Challenges, Science and Society, History and Memory, and Cultural Heritage.
The prestigious University of Milano-Bicocca officially became a Member of the Venice International University consortium on September 20, 2021.
New intermodal services for sustainable mobility
between Italy and Croatia
Joint Online Communication Event
23rd September 10:00-12:30 CET- online
Registration link: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkdOCtqzsuGtEEf44ZrGhoQ0cGFPEd8VLX
The road testing of modular electrified and self-driving pods is underway in Padua. The innovative transport system called "Next" was developed by the Paduan startup Getplus. The pilot action of testing the experimental module consists of two main phases and will last four months, until November 2021.
The first phase is being implemented in a selected urban area of Padua in reserved and protected lanes and is aimed at collecting data for a technical evaluation of the system. The second phase will be in an urban area with loop routes.
The SPROUT project will feature in the 10th International Congress on Transportation Research, which will take place in Rhodes, Greece, on the 2nd and 3rd of September. you can find more information here
"City Center", the Tel Aviv University research center for cities and urbanism headed by Prof. Juval Portugali, cordially invites VIU staff members and students to join the upcoming international virtual conference titled:
After two years of research, co-design sessions, data collection, analysis, writing, designing, and finally publishing our tools and reports, the QUEST Horizon 2020 project has come to its end.
QUEST has released several reports and tools, meant to support quality science communication.
The Toolkits, the Handbook for museum communicators, and the Factsheets based on QUEST policy and incentive recommendations are QUEST's latest outputs. Read more about them below.
VIU joined the ALICE network, Alliance for Logistics Innovation through Collaboration in Europe.
The European Technology Platform ALICE is set-up to develop a comprehensive strategy for research, innovation and market deployment of logistics and supply chain management innovation in Europe.
The platform will support and assist the implementation of the EU Programs for research: Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe.
In the second issue of the MUHAI newsletter read the latest news from this complex project that focuses on human-machine understanding and cooperation, by means of mimicking in machines how humans make sense of experiences and seeks to advance our ability to capture more of the rich and complex understanding that humans are capable of with the use of Artificial Intelligence.
Since the project began nine months ago, the researchers have been investigating the main areas of meaning and understanding through micro-projects that focus on the issues being tackled within the project: AI in society, AI to address inequality, and AI in everyday activities.
Last July 8, VIU organized a Zoom call to present the internship and mobility opportunities for Globalization Program students enrolled for the 1st semester 2021-2022.
Find here below the link to the presentation used during the Zoom call (click on the image).
During the Zoom meeting on July 7, information was given about the Globalization Program, about course registration, housing, and VIU covid-19 protocols.
You can find here below the ppt presentation used during the call (link on the image).
July 1, 2-6 pm CEST
Would you like to learn how to communicate your research results effectively to a broader audience? VIU invites you to join today's virtual workshop co-organized by the QUEST Project and GRONEN (Group for Research on Organizations and the Natural Environment)!
The complete agenda is available on the QUEST project website.
