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The EU Commission has launched a Manifesto to maximise the accessibility of research results in the fight against COVID-19.
The manifesto provides guiding principles for beneficiaries of EU research grants for coronavirus prevention, testing, treatment and vaccination to ensure that their research results will be accessible for all and guarantee a return on public investment.
The project has published the cross-border action plan for improving maritime and multimodal freight transport. The plan includes guidelines, priority measures, and KPIs that will be tested in pilot actions starting in September 2020. This cross border strategy was developed through the analysis of best practices in ICT tools and policies, territorial needs assessments, and training opportunities for the project partners.
Sustainable Ports is a new research project funded by the Interreg Italy-Croatia Program. The project will improve the safety and environmental sustainability of marine and coastal transport services and nodes by promoting multimodality.
SUSPORT intends to strengthen the institutional capacity and cross-border governance of the ports of the Programme Area in this sector, enhancing environmental sustainability and energy efficiency.
VIU has completed its contribution to the project through the coordination of the seven Action Plans of the Port Partners. The 7 action plans for sustainable and low-carbon ports cover a broad range of fields (clean shipping, green upgrading of port machinery, installation of emission control systems, truck flow management, etc.). The plans were designed considering local port operations and needs in order to identify tailor-made solutions.
Registrations for courses for the 1st Semester of AY 2020-21 (Fall 2020) of the Gobalization Program will open on July 28, at 3 pm Italian time.
The weekly schedule is now published in the Schedules section of VIU website.
The complete list of courses with syllabi is available on our website at this link.
Artificial Intelligence, an increasingly relevant topic also with concern to the latest pandemic challenge the world is facing, is one of QUEST project’s main areas of investigation with reference to Science Communication.
The ongoing reflection on the COVID-19 outbreak has opened the floor to various debates, one of them being the impact of digital innovation and technologies in containing the pandemic.
The recent COVID-19 pandemic has put each of us in front of new and unexpected rules and habits. Similarly, each of us has been confronted with a massive communication on the virus: epidemiologists, virologists, natural scientists, health scientists, social scientists, economists are everyday in the public media, communicating with people.
In the effort to offer citizens effective and reliable communication on scientific topics that have a significant impact on their daily lives, Climate Change is certainly one to take into consideration. In this perspective, QUEST project has selected Climate Change as one of the communication areas to tackle in its research.
At the end of May, 64 students of 13 nationalities concluded their semester of courses at VIU with the exam week. The semester, focused on Environmental Management and Sustainable Development, featured 25 courses taught by 19 professors from the member universities of VIU.
More than 100 participants have signed up for EU project training at VIU during the past three months of COVID-19 lockdown.
The Closing Ceremony of the Spring 2020 term of the Globalization Program will take place on Friday, 5 June 2020, at 3.15 pm, via Webex.
Pre-registrations for the 1st Semester of AY 2020-21 (Fall 2020) of the Gobalization Program are now open.
The complete list of courses with syllabi is available on our website at this link.
Wednesday, May 13, 2020 at 18:00 CEST
May 26, 2020, 13.00-14.45 (CEST) via WebEx
Regional Mobility beyond TEN-T
The online convention on Regional Mobility beyond TEN-T is the final event of the Peripheral Access Project and sheds light on practical examples of developing regional public transport in a way so that all inhabitants can benefit from the optimized TEN-T infrastructure, no matter where they live.
The European Green Deal, as communicated by the European Commission in December 2019, strives to achieve sustainable transport by putting users first and providing them with more affordable, accessible, healthier, and cleaner alternatives to their current mobility habits.
But how can users be put first in practice? By which means can the attractiveness of public transport really be raised? And where does this shift have to take place - first and foremost in urban areas, rural areas, or both?
EUCLID – EU-CHINA Lever for IPM Demonstration – is an Horizon 2020 Project aimed at securing food production for the increasing worldwide population (2015-2019). EUCLID has developed sustainable production methodologies to fight pests with an Integrated Pest Management approach, to be used in European and Chinese agriculture.
A list of Policy Recommendations is produced as one of the key outcomes of the project. It stems from directly engaging and confronting with national, international and EU authorities to understand how policy can support the development of IPM measures and the uptake of IPM products in the market.
As the outbreak of COVID-19 emerged in Italy at the end of February, here at VIU we acted quickly to introduce measures to mitigate the impact on our programs and on VIULife.
A few months ago, the Italian Government decided to establish a remembrance day for Dante Alighieri, and the chosen date is 25 March.
After 700 years, Italy and the world are ready to celebrate the Greatest of Poets on a special day, featuring various activities in schools, city squares, town halls and libraries.
We are glad to announce that on June 11-13 2021 we are organizing the second edition of the Venice World Multidisciplinary Conference on Republics and Republicanism.
