VIU News

Monday, May 12, 2025

4.30 pm, VIU Café – Venice International University, San Servolo Island

Sara De Vido, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia
Giancarlo Corò, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia
Sara Dal Monico, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia
Patricio Barbirotto, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia
Shinji Hasegawa, Waseda University

May 7, 2025, 4 pm

Ca' Tron, Santa Croce 1957, Venice - Iuav University

May 8-9-10, 2025

Venice International University

Organized by Iuav University of Venice & VIU Venice International University

The first DISCO General Assembly of 2025 was held online over two productive days, on 26th and 27th March 2025. This virtual gathering brought together all project partners to reflect on recent achievements, share key updates, and align on the next steps for the project’s development.

Resilience has been the theme of this semester’s Plenary Workshop, one of the most anticipated and carefully planned events of the semester. The workshop took place on Friday April 11.

Rolling admissions are open for the last places in some of our 2025 Summer Schools:

Ethics and Health Care
Wandering Across Sustainable Terrains and Environments
Advanced Transportation, Logistics, and Supply Chain Management

April 7-8, 2025

Earlier this year, a successful online kick-off of VIU's new Cities and Global Change Research Network was held on January 22, bringing together over 30 participants from VIU's member institutions. The virtual gathering marked the launch of a promising collaboration focused on some of the most pressing challenges facing today’s urban environments.

Building on this momentum, a two-day in-person workshop was held last week on April 7-8, 2025, bringing together 23 scholars and research officers from 10 member institutions to shape the agenda of the research network.

Navigating the Venice Archipelago. Lagoon Stories for Sustainable Futures is an interactive multimedia exhibit developed by Venice International University in collaboration with the University of Padua and is displayed in the Italian pavilion at Osaka Expo 2025.

Visitors engage with the immersive exhibit using a large touch screen to explore the history of the city and its lagoon, choosing different thematic itineraries: water and food, public health, city defense, religious settlements, historic ceremonies and festivities, and sustainability in the present day.

Starting on April 18, 2025, occasional visitors and day-trippers to the city of Venice will have to pay an "Access Fee" to the Municipality of Venice on selected dates.

Students and professors of VIU activities are exempt from the payment.

May 12-15, 2025

The Silent Echoes of a Great Sound Sculpture
(The Campanone of St. Peter’s Basilica)

curated by: Umberto Vattani and Valentino Catricalà
with the support of: Enel, Gruppo FS Italiane, and Meyer Sound

from February 16, 2025 - 8 pm to 10 pm

As part of the 2025 Jubilee - Basilica of St. Peter - Vatican City, Rome

February 21 - March 30, 2025
San Servolo Island

DISCO will be presented at the RTR Conference during the session "Digital innovative solutions for sustainable urban logistics" on the 11th February 2025, 16:30-18:45

The European Conference on Results from Research Projects on Road Transport (RTR Conference) will return for a 7th time in Brussels, Belgium from 5-7 February 2024.
The RTR Conference is a unique entry point into the achievement of EU-funded projects in road transport.

Thursday, December 19, 2024
5 pm, Aula Magna (1E)

CERTH, CEntre for Reasearch and Technology Hellas, has officially launched the first version of the Meta Model Suite that is reachable HERE:

The Model Suite is a tool:
_to know more about DISCO;
_to assess the Phisical Internet readiness of your city;
_to select the most suitable DISCO-X for your case;
_to get guidance on how to implement it.

Venice International University (VIU), in collaboration with Iuav University of Venice and Sabanci University in Istanbul, present the exhibition Manutius and the Book Revolution at the Italian Pavilion at the Frankfurt Book Fair, October 16-20, 2024.

The exhibition "Manutius and the Book Revolution" takes visitors on an immersive journey through Renaissance Venice, where Aldus Manutius revolutionized the world of books. Through interactive displays, the exhibition explores his life, the tools in his workshop, and the city he lived in.

Visitors can experience Venice of the time through a unique installation and learn about Manutius’ groundbreaking inventions, including the portable book format and innovations in typography that forever transformed the literary world. The exhibition also features beautiful illustrations from the most famous book printed by Manutius, the Hypnerotomachia Poliphilii, and an original Aldine edition from 1513, offering a rich exploration of his lasting legacy.

The exhibition set up in the Italian Pavilion also highlights the influence of Manutius in the Ottoman Empire.

Registration Open for the Joint Webinar on Find Space for Mobility and Logistics Data
October 29, 2024 at 13:00 – 14:30 CET

The rules for common European data spaces will cover areas like health, mobility, environment, energy and agriculture, to make better use of publicly held data for research for the common good, support voluntary data sharing by individuals, and. set up structures to enable key organisations to share data. However, application of data space in urban mobility, particularly how to apply data space in the urban logistics sector, is still in flux. Currently, there is a project (deployEMDS) working on European Mobility Data Space, and DISCO aims to application of data space in urban logistics. In the framework of DISCO project, an award dedicated to data space integration will be announced in October, and this webinar will invite the winner to share their practice.

This webinar will invite experts in data space and pioneers of using data space in the urban mobility sector, and engage with current R&I project practitioners to exchange views, and inform each other technical development and implementation.