SDG 15 Life on Land

May 12-17, 2025

Call for applications: December 2, 2024 – January 31, 2025

The PhD Academy is led by:

- Duke University
- Exeter University
- Stellenbosch University

Rural communities are particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, having long relied on farming, fishing, and the natural environment for their livelihoods. Strategies to enhance climate resilience and to support rural flourishing will

July 7-12, 2025

Call for applications: December 2, 2024 –March 10, 2025, deadline extended to March 25, 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

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

International PhD Academy

February 14-18, 2022

14 – 19 January, 2018

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

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.