SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

A Multidisciplinary Approach to Promote Active and Healthy Ageing

June 9-13, 2025

12th edition

Call for applications:  January 15 - February 28, 2025

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).

August 25 –September 3, 2025 | 7th Edition

Call for applications: January 15 - April 27, 2025

Aligning market needs with integrated sustainable transportation, logistics, and land-use planning: a unified approach

June 30 - July 4, 2025 | 4th Edition | Stellenbosch, South Africa

Call for applications: December 2, 2024 - March 2, 2025

September 16-20, 2024 | 3rd Edition

Call for applications: Closed

July 15-20, 2024 | 3rd Edition

Call for applications: closed

February 26 – March 1, 2024

Applications Closed

Exhibiting Hidden Histories: Bringing Art History Projects to Publics through Digital Exhibitions and XR

June 3-7, 2024 | 7th Edition

Fundamentals, Methods and Applications of State-of-the-Art Diagnostic Tools Using Optical, X-Ray and Particle Probes

November 6-10, 2023

International PhD Academy
18-22 September 2017

International PhD Academy
VIU Global Challenges Initiatives

May 13 – 17, 2019

Applications
December 15, 2018 – January 20, 2019 via VIU website

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.

The VIU Summer School on Critical Infrastructure Resilience (CIR) brings together academics and professional experts to discuss an emerging topic with a pragmatic and scientific approach. The School, led by the University of Rome Tor Vergata, explains how critical infrastructure works and fails; its cascading impact from local to global, and the strategies to use to build a resilient society.

July 10-15, 2023 

Call for applications: Cancelled

March 7-11, 2022

This is the seventh edition of the LIVES Winter School, the third organized by Venice International University and led by the University of Lausanne.

International PhD Academy

May 2-6, 2022

International PhD Academy

February 14-18, 2022

VIU Global Challenges Initiative

Virtual Sessions | August 29 – November 21, 2022 
On Campus | November 28 – December 3, 2022

This Graduate Seminar will be led by:
- KU Leuven, Belgium
- Stellenbosch University, South Africa 
- Waseda University, Japan