The Sino-Italian Advanced Training Program brought VIU in 2005 to start an academic cooperation with the Tsinghua University (Beijing), developing an exchange program of visiting students and professors between the Chinese university and Venice International University.

Within the framework of the exchange and research program, Venice International University hosts every year Ph.D. students from the Tsinghua Department of Environmental Science and Engineering. The students use to spend 3 months on the VIU campus on San Servolo and attend the VIU Globalization Program, developing research projects on different topics related to Sustainable Development (i.e. Water and Waste Management, Carbon Emissions and climate change, Water resource management, Air Pollution, Industrial parks, Land reclamation, Life Cycle Assessment).

Each student is appointed a local tutor for their research activity in Venice, who establishes new scientific, technical, institutional and academic relationships with the Universities and their Chinese supervisors.

The workshop on Growth, Trade and Environment: State of Art and Future Research Perspectives was held on June 9-10, 2008 at VIU premises.

The event was organized by the TEN Center of VIU in cooperation with the Advanced Schools of Economics and the Department of Economics of Ca' Foscari University of Venice.

The overall aim of the workshop was to address key issues in the analysis of trade, growth and environment, trying to establish a link between research areas that have been proceeding along partial linkages (trade and environment, growth and environment, growth and trade). Examples of the state of the art and of ongoing lines of research were provided along with the opportunity for an exchange of views on future perspectives of research.

Name	Lecture Title	Material
Brian Copeland, University of British Columbia	Policy Endogeneity and the Effects of International Trade on the Environment
Eden Yu, City University of Hong Kong	International Capital Movements and Pollution Tax Coordination	download
Francesca Sanna Randaccio, Università La Sapienza, Roma	Foreign Direct Investments and the Environment	download
Panos Hatzipanayotou, University of Athens	Reforms of Trade and Pollution Taxes
Daniela Marconi, Banca d'Italia, Roma	Trade, Technology and the Environment	download
Pasquale Sgro, Deakin University, Melbourne	Environmental Control, Wage Inequality and National Welfare in a Tourism Economy
Xue Qiao, Tsinghua University, Beijing	Environmental Tax, Double Dividend and Golden Rule: an Overlapping Generation Model Analysis	download
Sjak Smulders, University of Calgary	Environmental Policy and Directed Technological Change
Piero Peretto, Duke University	Technology, Population and Natural Resources: a Theory of Take Off and Convergence to Sustainable Growth
Francesco Ricci, Universitè Cergy-Pontoise	Resource Conservation and Directed R&D as Strategic Complements	download
Pasquale Sgro, Deakin University, Melbourne	Growth Dynamics and the Environmental Kutznes Curve

Since 2006 the TEN center has organized Seminar Series on a variety of topics in collaboration with the Center for International Development of Harvard University and the support of the Italian Ministry for the Environment Land and Sea.

In May 2014 VIU hosted the Sustainability Science Course Summer School, a short course addressed to 30 active researchers selected by Harvard among candidates from Italy, EU, Brazil, China and North America.

May 2014 photobook 

 _Past events

• Industrial Pollution, Regulation and Growth: Governance Challenges and Innovations (2012)
• Executive Session on Enhancing Food Security in an Era of Global Climate Change (2010)
• Water and Human Well Being – Executive session on Grand Challenges of the Sustainability Transition (2009)
• Harvard University Science Forum on Biofuels (2008)
• Grand Challenges of Sustainability Science (2006)