VIU will offer a wide range of Intensive Graduate Activities in 2025.
Students and scholars from the member universities are encouraged to explore the programs on offer in 2025, and apply early to guarantee their place.
The programs are the outcome of intense collaboration among the universities and have been developed based on the mandate of the member universities through the VIU Academic Council.
There are three types of intensive graduate activity at VIU.
- VIU International PhD Academy
Interdisciplinary intensive programs on major societal challenges, with a parallel training program in transversal skills to prepare advanced PhDs for research careers in academia or in the private sector.
- VIU Graduate Seminars
Thematic intensive seminars, on a focused topic approached from a multidisciplinary perspective. The aim is to support early-career PhDs who are beginning their research and to facilitate interdepartmental cooperation. Significant cooperation among departments in the member universities is expected.
- VIU Summer/Spring Schools
VIU supports the development of VIU Summer Schools, which are intensive taught programs that are offered each year. They are addressed to students of varying levels; check each program brochure. The Schools are also open to applicants outside of the VIU membership.
PhD Academies
Rethinking Rural Futures in an Age of Climate Change: Migration, Adaptation, and Sustainability Transitions
May 12-17, 2025
Call for applications: December 2, 2024 – January 31, 2025
Law and the Global Economy. Training the next generation of Academic leaders
September 15-19, 2025
Call for applications: January 15 – May 15, 2025
Wandering Across Sustainable Terrains and Environments
July 7-12, 2025
Call for applications: December 2, 2024 – March 10, 2025
Graduate Seminars
Critical Phenomenology: Theory and Applications
June 2-6, 2025
Call For Application: December 2, 2024 – February 2, 2025
Summer and Spring Schools
Equipping Researchers with Skills, Strategies and Confidence for Science Communication
March 31- April 4, 2025
Call for applications: November 15, 2024 - January 15, 2025
Organizing for Sustainable Futures: Micro and Macro-Institutional Conditions of Transformation
June 16-20, 2025 | 9th Edition
Call for applications: December 2, 2024 – February 20, 2025
Summer Institute on Ageing
June 9-13, 2025 | 12th edition
Ethics and Health Care
June 16-19, 2025
Call for applications: December 2, 2024 – January 31, 2025
Linguistic Landscapes: Using Signs and Symbols to Translate Cities
June 30 - July 4, 2025
Call for applications: December 2, 2024 – March 2, 2025
Advanced Transportation, Logistics, and Supply Chain Management
June 30 - July 4, 2025 | 4th Edition
Call for applications: opening soon
Global Mental Health and Human Rights: Decolonial Perspectives on Structural Violence and War
July 21-25, 2025
Call for applications: December 2, 2024 – March 20, 2025
Films in Venice and Filming Venice
August 25 - September 3, 2025 | 7th Edition
Call for applications: opening soon
Exploring Nucleic Acids: from biophysics to molecular biology
September 22-26, 2025
Call for applications: January 15– May 15, 2025
