VIU News
Registration for courses of the Fall 2017 is now open.
The full list of courses with descriptions and syllabi and the weekly schedule are available for the Fall 2017 semester. Over 100 students from all over the world will take courses on Italy, Cultures of the World and Global Challenges in the 15-week program, starting on September 4, 2017. The specialization track courses will focus on Economics, Management and Digital Technologies applied to Cultural Heritage.
Concert at VIU for the Festival for the Sustainable Development
Closing Ceremony of the Spring Semester of the Globalization Program
1 June 2017, 4.45 pm, Venice International University, Isola di San Servolo
The pre-registration for the Fall 2017 semester opens on May 19, 2017.
Students can pre-register now from this link.
Over 100 students from all over the world will take courses on Italy, Cultures of the World and Global Challenges in the 15-week program.
"ECO Primavera"
with 100 Endangered Species
by Irish painter Michelle Rogers
Opening May 10 at 6pm
Sacra Conversazione: Identity, Heritage, Globalization
an art project by LMU München
opening on April 4, 2017 at 4 pm
GLOBALIZATION PROGRAM
Thursday, 23 February 2017
at 5pm, Aula Magna
Early this January the Island of San Servolo entered GARR internet network.
July 3-5, 2017
VIU Campus, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy
The 2017 edition of the European Summer School in Resource and Environmental Economics, organized by EAERE, FEEM and VIU, will be held at the VIU campus on the island of San Servolo from the 2nd to the 8th of July.
In the framework of the celebrations for the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a presentation of the book “Rom, questi sconosciuti” ("The Romani, that unknown people") by Santino Spinelli will be held in the "Sala Berengo" at Ca’ Foscari University (Dorsoduro 3246) on January 27, from 2 to 4 pm. The book will be presented by Prof. Francesco Spagna, University of Padua.
This is the first in the Global Challenges Series of VIU International PhD Academies.
Venice International University is pleased to support the Young Musicians European Orchestra directed by Paolo Olmi, during the series of Christmas concerts which will take place in Italy and the Holy Land during the month of December.
In line with its mission and commitment to promote Sustainable Development, VIU has recently joined ASviS – Alleanza Italiana per lo Sviluppo Sostenibile, the Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development, established in February 2016 on an initiative of Unipolis Foundation and University of Rome “Tor Vergata”.
VIU was awarded the UNI EN ISO 9001:2015 certification on September 30, 2016, following a detailed audit from the external accreditation body DNV-GL.
"Il Mondo di Han Meilin a Venezia – The World of Han Meilin in Venice" Exhibition was inaugurated on October 27, 2016 with the participation of the curators, VIU President Umberto Vattani and Prof. Zhao Li, the Ambassador of the P.R. of China – Wei Ding, the Rector of University of Venice Ca' Foscari – Prof. Michele Bugliesi, and Maestro Han Meilin.
VIU's growth and expansion continues with the Assembly voting unanimously on October 29, 2016 to approve the admission of KU Leuven to the VIU Consortium.
200 works are on display in the courtyards and halls of the main Palace of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, from October 28, 2016 to February 28, 2017.
Si informa che, a seguito della scadenza del Collegio dei Revisori e in vista della prossima Assemblea per la nomina degli organi societari, la VIU invita i cittadini interessati a presentare la propria candidatura.
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Il termine per la presentazione delle candidature, corredate dai relativi curricula, è fissato per domenica 16 ottobre 2016.
Per eventuali informazioni, si prega di contattare administration@univiu.org.
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
President of the Italian Republic, 1999-2006
President of Venice International University, 1995-1999
The funeral of President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi has taken place in Rome, following his death on Friday, September 16, 2016. He was 95 years old.
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi was the first President of VIU, from 1996 to 1999, the year in which he became President of the Republic of Italy; a fitting conclusion to an illustrious career, first at the Bank of Italy where he became Governor, and later in political roles including various ministerial posts throughout the 1990s, and a period as Prime Minister in 1993-1994. Carlo Azeglio Ciampi was a fine statesman, widely respected for his honesty and integrity.
Prof. Paolo Costa, who was Dean at Venice International University, while Ciampi was VIU President, and who was later Mayor of Venice, recalls how Ciampi held a “conviction that one of the destinies of Venice was to become a great city of scholars”, and that he was a strong supporter of the reconstruction of the Fenice Theatre, which he formally re-opened in 2003.
Ambassador Umberto Vattani, incumbent President of VIU, has released the following statement:
“In this sad moment for all Italians, we at Venice International University share our deepest sympathy with President Ciampi’s wife, Franca, and remember the importance of President Carlo Azeglio’s contribution to the birth and development of our Institution.
“I got to know the President while he was still Governor of the Bank of Italy, and while I was at Palazzo Chigi as Diplomatic Adviser to the Prime Minister.
“I later had the honour of receiving him, when he was Prime Minister, during his first official visit abroad, to Germany, where he delivered a moving Lectio Magistralis at the University of Bonn.
“We met frequently in Rome while I was Secretary General of the Foreign Ministry and I was privileged to participate in a group of functionaries that Prime Minister Prodi and Treasury Minister Ciampi had wished to establish to prepare the negotiations for Italy’s entry into the euro area.
“It is with particular fondness that I recall meetings with him when he had already become President of the Republic, a time in which he demonstrated extraordinary leadership in relaunching Italy’s important role in the negotiations for European expansion.
“These are all personal anecdotes which I hold dear, but what has in particular been relevant for VIU is the eminent figure of a great Italian statesman who had an extraordinary intuition: to found a University which is truly unique in the international academic panorama. Venice International University today has 16 member universities from throughout the world. On the shared campus in Venice, students from all over the globe join a unique transnational, interdisciplinary environment where they take part in academic programs focused on important global challenges: sustainable development, ageing populations and welfare, global ethics and governance, the protection and promotion of cultural heritage, and the role of technology and innovation in society. This is President Ciampi’s legacy at VIU.”
The Dean of VIU, Prof. Carlo Giupponi, has expressed his sadness at the news of President Ciampi’s passing, adding that “as a citizen, I am sorry for the loss of a good man who had done much for his Country”.
President Ciampi’s address during the Inaugural Ceremony of Venice International University in 1997, although spoken 20 years ago, is ever more relevant in the current climate of uncertainty in Europe and conflict further afield. In it he touches on themes of the European project and how it arose from the need to build lasting peace so as to avoid a repetition of the rise of exasperated nationalism, anticipating many of the challenges that the world faces today.
President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi’s address, during the Inaugural Ceremony of Venice International University on 7 June 1997 (in Italian).
On September 19, Venice International University represented by the Dean prof. Carlo Giupponi, participated in the UN Private Sector Forum organized at the UN headquarters in New York.
This year the Forum focused on the role of business in advancing sustainable development to prevent global instability. Hosted by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the Forum was organized in collaboration with the Co-Chairs of the United Nations High-Level Meeting of the General Assembly to address Large Movements of Refugees and Migrants. With the theme of Business and the 2030 Agenda: Securing the Way Forward, the Private Sector Forum highlighted important connections between the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the new Agenda for Humanity – which, together with the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the Action Agenda on Financing for Development, are pillars of the 2030 Agenda.
Prof. Giupponi will also attend the Fourth Annual International Conference on Sustainable Development held on September 21-22 in New York.
The aim of the conference is to identify and share practical, evidence-based solutions that can support the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This year’s conference theme is Moving Forward: The SDGs in Practice.
On September 26, Venice International University will host the first edition of the Italian Business & SDGs Annual Forum, an initiative promoted by the Global Compact Network Italy Foundation. The meeting has been devised to be an important opportunity for a multi-stakeholder discussion on the role that the private sector is called upon to play in support of the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030.
