VIU will offer a wide range of Intensive Graduate Activities in 2024.
Students and scholars from the member universities are encouraged to explore the programs on offer in 2024, and apply early to guarantee their place.
The programs are the outcome of intense collaboration among the universities and have been developed based on the mandate of the member universities through the VIU Academic Council.
There are three types of intensive graduate activity at VIU.
- VIU International PhD Academy
Interdisciplinary intensive programs on major societal challenges, with a parallel training program in transversal skills to prepare advanced PhDs for research careers in academia or in the private sector.
- VIU Graduate Seminars
Thematic intensive seminars, on a focused topic approached from a multidisciplinary perspective. The aim is to support early-career PhDs who are beginning their research and to facilitate interdepartmental cooperation. Significant cooperation among departments in the member universities is expected.
- VIU Summer/Spring Schools
VIU supports the development of VIU Summer Schools, which are intensive taught programs that are offered each year. They are addressed to students of varying levels; check each program brochure. The Schools are also open to applicants outside of the VIU membership.
PhD Academies
Intense lasers for new societal applications
May 13-17, 2024
Call for applications: Closed
Energy and Society. The case of fusion
June, 10-15, 2024
Call for applications: Closed
Water and Climate Resilience
July 8-12, 2024
Call for applications: Closed
Graduate Seminars
Towards Geo-Data Science: extracting knowledge from heterogeneous geoenvironmental data
May 20-24, 2024
Call for applications: Closed
Translation: Why Is It a Political Question? Perspectives In Philosophy and Translation Theory
February 26 – March 1, 2024
Summer and Spring Schools
Equipping Researchers with Skills, Strategies and Confidence for Science Communication
March 18-22, 2024
Organizing for Sustainable Futures: Micro and Macro-Institutional Conditions of Transformation
June 17-20, 2024 | 8th Edition
Rolling admissions open until May 5, 2024 via the VIU website
Summer Institute on Ageing
June 3-7, 2024 | 11th edition
Call for applications open until April 19, 2024
Digital Art History Summer Institute
June 3-7, 2024 | 7th edition
Call for applications: Closed
Ethics and Health Care
June 10-14, 2024 - cancelled
Linguistic Landscapes: Using Signs and Symbols to Translate Cities
June 24-28, 2024
Rolling admissions open until May 5, 2024 via the VIU website
Advanced Transportation, Logistics, and Supply Chain Management
July 1-5, 2024 | 3rd Edition
Rolling admissions open until May 5, 2024 via the VIU website
Science Diplomacy in the age of Climate Change
July 15-20, 2024 | 3rd Edition
Call for applications: December 1, 2023 - April 15, 2024 via the VIU website
Global Mental Health and Human Rights: perspectives on environmental, gender and economic racism
July 22 - 26 2024
Call for applications: January 18, 2024 - March 25, 2024
Films in Venice and Filming Venice
August 27 – September 4, 2024 | 6th Edition
Call for applications: opening early 2024
Migration and Gender: Legal, Sociolinguistic and Literary Perspectives
September 16-20, 2024 | 3rd Edition
Call for applications: December 1, 2023 – May 21, 2024 via the VIU website
