SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production

July 7-12, 2025

Call for applications: Rolling admissions open until May 15, 2025

The PhD Academy is led by:

- Duke University
- Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
- Exeter University
- 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

June 16-20, 2025 | 9th edition of the Summer School series on Responsible Capitalism

Call for applications: closed

July 15-20, 2024 | 3rd Edition

Call for applications: closed

International PhD Academy

VIU Global Challenges Initiative

September 27 – October 1, 2021

International PhD Academy
VIU Global Challenges Initiatives

May 13 – 17, 2019

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

International PhD Academy

February 14-18, 2022

VIU Global Challenges Initiative

September 12-16, 2022

This Graduate Seminar will be led by:
- Venice International University, Italy
- Stellenbosch University, South Africa
- University of Padua, Italy
- KU Leuven, Belgium
- Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy

November 15-19, 2021

This Graduate Seminar will be led by:
- Tor Vergata University of Rome, Italy
- Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Canada
- Tsinghua University, China
- KU Leuven, Belgium

VIU Global Challenges Initiative

September 9-13, 2019

 Leading Universities
- Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
- Duke University, US
- University of Padua, Italy
- VIU-TeDIS Program

In cooperation with:
- Università IUAV di Venezia, Italy
- Tsinghua University, China
- Waseda University, Japan

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

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.

International PhD Academy

January 8-15, 2016

Science & Technology Studies (STS) is an interdisciplinary field, bringing together sociology, history, philosophy, sociology and related social science and humanities approaches. STS looks at science and technology (S&T) as a means of asking about the creation of facts, technological objects, and scientific knowledge, examining the ways in which S&T are embedded in social life.

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.

International PhD Academy
9-13 July 2018

This is the second of the Global Challenges Initiatives of VIU International PhD Academies. Each Initiative will focus on a major societal challenge 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.