Venice International University (VIU) is pleased to announce a calendar of info sessions dedicated to our key academic programs. These sessions are tailored for both students and professors, offering insights into unique opportunities for interdisciplinary learning, international collaboration, and innovative teaching at Venice International University.
Whether you're a student eager to broaden your academic horizons or a professor with a vision for collaborative teaching and research, these sessions will provide the guidance you need to engage with VIU's dynamic academic community.
📅 Info Session Calendar
For Professors:
July 22, 1.00 pm Globalization Program Info Session
The VIU Globalization Program brings together bright, motivated students from our member universities into an enriching, multicultural academic environment. Students engage with global challenges such as sustainability, equity and governance, and explore topics such as Science and Society, Environmental Humanities, History and Memory, Cities and Global Change, and Cultural Heritage, gaining critical and creative skills across disciplines.
Set against the backdrop of Venice, this program offers more than classroom learning—it encourages exploration, interdisciplinary thinking, and encounters that connect education to real-world contexts. The result? A transformative learning experience that develops intellectual flexibility and global awareness.
July 22, 1.30 pm Intensive Graduate Activities Info Session
Do you have a concept for an interdisciplinary graduate program? Would you like to collaborate with colleagues from other VIU member institutions? If your students would benefit from a residential intensive program in Venice, consider submitting a proposal for a PhD Academy, Graduate Seminar or Summer School. Join us at the July 22 session to learn how to bring your academic vision to life at VIU.
For Students:
July 31, 1.00 pm Globalization Program Info Session
Another session will be held on November 6, 1.00 pm
In the VIU Globalization Program, students encounter new educational philosophies and learning styles, challenging their assumptions and encouraging intellectual flexibility. They often engage with global issues from alternative perspectives, gaining a more nuanced understanding of complex challenges such as sustainability, equity, governance, and innovation. Classroom learning becomes deeply connected to real-world contexts while the unique setting of Venice offers the opportunity for meetings, encounters, investigations and explorations of the city as a special laboratory, as a location that foregrounds the extraordinary culture of the past, the problems of the present, and the possibility of the future.
September 30, 3.00 pm Intensive Graduate Activities Info Session
Students in the PhD Academies, Graduate Seminars and Summer Schools expand their knowledge, skills, and critical understanding of the major societal challenges faced by humankind today – whether environmental, social, cultural, or technological, and their impacts at local and global levels. Whether they will work within or outside academia, graduate students and young researchers must be able to develop and nurture a forward-looking vision of the challenges they face. By collaborating with peers from around the world, students explore transversal topics through innovative approaches, enriching their own research and perspectives through a dynamic exchange of disciplinary and cultural viewpoints.
