FocusAll 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.
June 16-19, 2025
4th edition of the Summer School series on The Age Criterion
Call for applications: December 2, 2024 –January 31, 2025, extended to February, 20, 2025, via the VIU website
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).
July 15-20, 2024 | 3rd Edition
Call for applications: closed
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
VIU Global Challenges Initiative
September 27 – October 1, 2021
International PhD Academy VIU Global Challenges Initiatives
May 13 – 17, 2019
ApplicationsDecember 15, 2018 – January 20, 2019 via VIU website
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.