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
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Rethinking Rural Futures in an Age of Climate Change: Migration, Adaptation, and Sustainability Transitions |
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Law and the Global Economy. Training the next generation of Academic leaders |
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Wandering Across Sustainable Terrains and Environments |
Graduate Seminars
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Critical Phenomenology: Theory and Applications |
Summer and Spring Schools
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Equipping Researchers with Skills, Strategies and Confidence for Science Communication |
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Organizing for Sustainable Futures: Micro and Macro-Institutional Conditions of Transformation |
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Summer Institute on Ageing |
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Ethics and Health Care |
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Linguistic Landscapes: Using Signs and Symbols to Translate Cities |
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Advanced Transportation, Logistics, and Supply Chain Management |
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Global Mental Health and Human Rights: Decolonial Perspectives on Structural Violence and War |
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Films in Venice and Filming Venice |
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Exploring Nucleic Acids: from biophysics to molecular biology |
