VIU News
first release of DISCO’s newsletter!
We are delighted to share with our Community the latest updates from our pioneering project. Before entering a central step in the digital path of our Living Labs, we look back at the tracks performed so far and reveal all of our progress, as well as what to expect in the upcoming months.
Featuring opening words from the DISCO’s Project Coordinator, Paola Cossu (FIT Consulting), DISCO at the ITS Summit in Australia, Urban Mobility Days 2023, and many more!
Venice International University is pleased to announce a significant addition to its esteemed association of universities and research centers. The Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) has joined our community, bringing with it a wealth of expertise and groundbreaking contributions to the field of astrophysics.
Wednesday, December 20, 2023
5 pm, Aula Magna (1E)
The Closing Ceremony will gather together nearly 100 students representing nearly 20 nationalities throughout three continents who since last September have come to San Servolo and attended the courses taught by professors from VIU's member universities.
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.
Take a look at our Intensive Graduate Activities for 2025!
Summer Schools
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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 |
PhD Academies
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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 |
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
5 pm CET, Room 1E
Venice International University, San Servolo Island
David M. Schizer, Professor of Law and Economics and Dean Emeritus, Columbia University
DISCO participated at Urban Mobility Days 2023, that took place from 4-6 October in Seville, Spain.
Urban Mobility Days will bring together politicians, local authorities, industry, and urban transport practitioners with the European Commission to connect, share and discuss the path forward for a sustainable, innovative, and equitable future for Europe’s urban mobility. As 2023 is the European Year of Skills, Urban Mobility Days will have a specific focus on transport skills. The event is being organised together with the upcoming Spanish Presidency of the Council of the EU.
DISCO was presented at Urban Logistics Innovation Days in Brussels, at COMET Louise, on the 26th of September.
This event is organised as the final conference of the EU-funded LEAD project, in cooperation with ALICE-ETP and POLIS, bringing together other urban logistics innovative projects, to showcase innovative solutions. This will also include live demonstrations of the digital innovative solutions for Digital Twins and Urban Logistics planning developed by LEAD.
60 students spent the month of August at VIU taking courses for credit for their bachelor's and master's degrees.
This was the second edition of the Summer Session of the Globalization Program, introduced in 2022 with the aim of extending the opportunities to study and teach at VIU, especially to those students who otherwise face barriers to participation in mobility opportunities during the semester-long programs, be it for socio-economic challenges, caring responsibilities, insufficient opportunities in their disciplinary area, or challenges receiving credit recognition for interdisciplinary studies.
DISCO was presented at ITS Global Summit 2023.
The ITS Australia Global Summit 2023 explored approaches to Accelerating smarter, safer, sustainable transport by leveraging the ever-expanding capabilities of technology. The Summit brings together government, industry and academic thought leaders from across the globe to explore the themes of: Smart Infrastructure and Data Ecosystems; Sustainable and Equitable Transport; Electric, Connected, Automated Transport; Future Mobility; Policy and Harmonisation; Freight, Logistics and Drones.
It has been a very busy summer here at VIU!
Here is a round-up of the Summer Schools, a PhD Academy and the Summer Session of the Globalization Program that ran from June through August.
Overall we have welcomed more than 200 students and 80 professors to the Academic Programs since June, and we will have another two Summer Schools, a PhD Academy, and a new GP semester kicking off in September.
SUSPORT final conference was held in Trieste on June 21st 2023.
Ports are crossroads of goods and people, as well as source of prosperity for their territories, key to their economic development and job creation. Yet, like all other human activities, they can be source of nuisances at local – air pollution, noise, congestion – and global level – CO2 emissions.
Thursday, June 1, 2023
5 pm, Aula Magna (1E)
The Closing Ceremony will gather together more than 100 students representing nearly 20 nationalities throughout three continents who since last February have come to San Servolo and attended the courses taught by professors from VIU's member universities.
The DISCO project Kick-off meeting was held in Brussels on May 16-17, 2023.
DISCO is the acronym for: Data-driven, Integrated, Syncromodal, Collaborative and Optimized urban freight meta model for a new generation of urban logistics and planning with data sharing at European Living Lab.
DISCO develops a European urban freight data-space as data-sharing on digital urban logistics solutions, providing smart tools for decision making with replicable Use Cases that are built to code transformation of urban planning and land use by an open and collaborative data-space developing smart governance model.
Wednesday, May 10, 2023
5 pm CEST, Room 1E
Venice International University, San Servolo Island
Miria A. Pigato, Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
In the framework of SPROUT, two new e-learning courses were launched:
_Sprout early policy alert and action tracking;
_Policy design, coalition and governance.
They can be found in the following link: https://nuacampus.org/courses/
NUA Campus is a Capacity building platform of the Urban Living Labs Centre for the transformation of urban mobility, energy, and resource sectors and hosts the e-courses developed within the SPROUT Project.
COALESCE is the new Horizon Europe project of which Venice International University is a partner. Over the next four years, it will establish the European Competence Centre for Science Communication.
VIU’s main role in COALESCE is the creation of the Science Communication Academy for capacity building and training to enhance the capacities of scientists, communication officers, journalists and decision-makers to support quality and effective science communication. VIU will engage with scicomm scholars and experts to design online and in-person scicomm training opportunities that will be held at Venice International University's campus.
This year, Stellenbosch University celebrates thirty years of successful internationalization, and to mark the occasion the university hosted the Stellenbosch International Academic Networks (SIAN) Meeting in March - a week-long conference on internationalization in higher education.
The Lectiones Magistrales of the Academic Year 2022-23 are available for viewing on the VIU YouTube channel:
Applications are still open for a number of graduate activities at VIU.
Rolling admissions open until May 1, 2023, for the last places in the following programs:
