SDG 4 Quality Education

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: closed

June 16-19, 2025

4th edition of the Summer School series on The Age Criterion

Rolling admissions open until April 27, 2025 via the VIU website | 5 places available

A Multidisciplinary Approach to Promote Active and Healthy Ageing

June 9-13, 2025

12th edition

Call for applications:  January 15 - February 28, 2025

March 31- April 4, 2025  | 2nd Edition

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

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

September 22-26, 2025

Call for applications: January 15– May 15, 2025

August 25 –September 3, 2025 | 7th Edition

Call for applications: January 15 - April 27, 2025

July 21-25, 2025

Call for applications: December 2, 2024 – March 20, 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

June 2-6, 2025

Call For Application: December 2, 2024 – February 2, 2025

The Graduate Seminar is led by:
- University of Padua, Italy
- University of Exeter, United Kingdom
- Boston College, USA

Phenomenology has gained significant traction in recent decades, particularly due to a scientific rehabilitation of the first-person perspective and the realization of the cultural and bodily conditionality of experience.

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