SDG 17 Partnerships for the Goals

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: Rolling admissions until April 30, 2025

March 31- April 4, 2025  | 2nd Edition

Call for applications: November 15, 2024 - January 15, 2025

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

Call for applications: closed

September 15-19, 2025

Call for applications: January 15 – May 15, 2025

The PhD Academy is led by:

- University of Padua, Italy
- University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
- University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
- Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- KU Leuven

The world is currently witnessing a significant

Focus
All stakeholders, from researchers to professionals, policy makers and citizens must contribute to achieve sustainable development and the SDGs.  Researchers have to provide the acquired knowledge, whereas professionals and policy makers need the capacity to face and manage complex issues. Citizens’ engagement is necessary in order to promote a constructive dialogue that supports both research and policy.

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).

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

The program offers students and early career researchers the opportunity to critically reflect, with the help of highly qualified experts, on topical issues that raise ethical and deontological dilemmas, relating to ageing and end of life.

International PhD Academy
18-22 September 2017

International PhD Academy

October 4-9, 2021 

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

July 3-8, 2023 | 2nd Edition

Call for applications: Cancelled

International PhD Academy

September 20-24, 2021

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

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.