SDG 17 Partnerships for the Goals

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.

VIU Global Challenges Initiative

July 11-15, 2022 | Cancelled

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

International PhD Academy

June 13-17, 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

VIU Global Challenges Initiative
July 1-5, 2019

This Graduate Seminar will be led by:
- Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Canada (Prof. Erwan Gloaguen, Scientific coordinator)
- University of Lausanne, Switzerland
- Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy

In cooperation with
- Laval University, Canada
- University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland

VIU Global Challenges Initiatives

June 10 - 14, 2019 

Leading Universities
Boston College (Prof. Elizabeth Wallace)
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Prof. Shaul Bassi)
Tel Aviv University (Prof. Dorit Tanay)

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

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.