SDG 9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

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: December 2, 2024 -March 2, 2025, extended to March 23, 2025

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

July 15-20, 2024 | 3rd Edition

Call for applications: closed

Exhibiting Hidden Histories: Bringing Art History Projects to Publics through Digital Exhibitions and XR

June 3-7, 2024 | 7th Edition

Fundamentals, Methods and Applications of State-of-the-Art Diagnostic Tools Using Optical, X-Ray and Particle Probes

November 6-10, 2023

International PhD Academy
18-22 September 2017

International PhD Academy

VIU Global Challenges Initiative

September 27 – October 1, 2021

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.

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

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 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)

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.