VIU News
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.
We are looking to hire two junior staff members to work in the Globalization Program office and the Graduate Activities office at Venice International University.
The ideal candidates will have 1-3 years experience in:
- providing administration and organizational support to university programs
- dealing with international students and professors
- experience in event management and organization
- experience in web communications
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:
SUSPORT will attend the Transport Logistics Fair in Munich on 8th-12th May 2023
Advances in research and developments are driving ahead the logistics and freight transport business. Universities and colleges are working closely together with the companies in this field. The leading research establishments and institutes that are involved in freight transport systems present their work in the section on “Research and development”.
For further information: https://transportlogistic.de/en/trade-fair/exhibition-sectors/
VIU is pleased to congratulate Gary Gereffi, Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Director of the Global Value Chains Center at Duke University who will be conferred with an honorary doctorate in Economics and Management from the University of Padua by the Rector, Prof. Daniela Mapelli, on March 13 at 3 p.m. at the Aula Magna of Palazzo del Bo in Padua.
March 8, 2023
On the occasion of International Women's Day, we are pleased to introduce you to the amazing women teaching this semester at VIU in the Globalization Program!
Their research spans a range of disciplines from international law, urban studies, architecture, policy strategy and design, history and theory of fashion, economics, anthropology, and environmental studies, on topics including: gender-based violence against women; labor economics; sustainable development; science communication, fashion and gender politics; reinassance studies; climate governance; decolonial theory; welfare and urban settlements; sustainable development and public engagement.
SPROUT results brochure presents project results and promotes the most relevant policy planning exercises and tools developed throughout the project. The goal is to provide an overview which provides the key findings and links to more comprehensive results. The brochure provides resources demonstrating the process, progress and results of the project, which can be used towards future city-led innovation initiatives of cities and the sustainable urban mobility community.
Thursday, March 9, 2023
6 pm CET, Room 1G and online
Venice International University, San Servolo Island
Francesco Casetti, Sterling Professor of Humanities and Film and Media Studies at Yale University
This sixth and final SPROUT newsletter presents the outcomes of four years of work from the SPROUT partners. You will find the SPROUT toolbox, a website that provides a step-by-step guidance for cities to follow the SPROUT approach to test and respond to innovative mobility solutions, and the SPROUT e-learning courses, created with the aim of supporting cities in their policy-making capacities. You will read about our final conference in Brussels and much more!
Tuesday, February 28 at 3 pm @ Ca' Foscari University
Aula Morelli, Malcanton Marcorà, Calle Contarini, Dorsoduro 3484/D
What is the relationship between the citizens and environmental issues? What is the role that communication can have to promote a positive relationship? How can environmental communication promote sustainable actions? These issues will be discussed during tomorrow's event, which will take place at the Ca' Foscari Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage.
