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The purpose of the ICARUS project is to increase and improve sustainable travel options in coastal transport services and provide alternatives to independent car use.
These solutions include harmonization of timetables, availability of car/bike sharing within transport nodes, innovative ICT solutions for seamless flow of information, integrated intelligent multimodal payment systems, dynamic travel planning, and cross-border intermodal services. The innovative solutions will trigger a behavioral shift away from personally owned vehicles in favor of public and shared services.
Over the course of 2020, the project group analyzed the current state of the art in terms of innovative solutions, mobility gaps and needs, as well as by capitalizing on EU and international practices. This provided useful data to calibrate pilot activities.
PROMARES was presented at a round table discussion during the transnational workshop at the final conference of the ISTEN project.
The roundtable discussion focused on Logistics platforms, intermodal transport, and regional cooperation: challenges, lessons learned, and possible solutions from Interreg projects. Other participants included representatives from the DG REGION of the EU Commission and the Interreg ADRION Managing Authority, as well as several projects co-funded by different Interreg Programmes having similar scope: PROMARES (Interreg Italy-Croatia), COMODALCE, REIF, InterGreenNodes (Interreg Central Europe), NEWBRAIN, MultiAPPRO, ADRIPASS (Interreg ADRION).
PROMARES was presented by the lead partner of the project, the Port Network Authority of the Eastern Adriatic Sea-Ports of Trieste and Monfalcone.
After the foundation of Venice International University in 1995, the founding members began sending students to Venice to take joint courses as part of their curriculum. During that first semester, in which I myself taught, there were just ten courses on offer to the 60 students from the five member universities who enrolled. Over the course of twenty-five years, the membership of VIU has expanded to fifteen countries, and the program for students, known as the Globalization Program for the past decade, has continued to evolve and grow, becoming an articulated interdisciplinary program that attracts 150 students each semester from across the globe.
Dear Friends,
We are reaching the end of a very unusual year that has caused a great amount of suffering and instability in the world.
We were all forced to come to terms with the pandemic, each country in its own way.
But we are closing 2020 on a positive note: in the last few weeks there have been rays of hope concerning the imminent arrival of a series of vaccines, and we can be cautiously optimistic regarding the New Year.
December 16, 2020 | Webinar | 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm CET
Professor Luc Steels, MUHAI project Scientific Coordinator for Venice International University, will hold a session entitled “History Lessons for the Future: Toward a Human-centric governance of AI” at the 2-hour online symposium organized by the initiative “RRI in Horizon Europe”.
The current circumstances that we are all experiencing due to the pandemic prevent us from celebrating this important occasion on our campus on San Servolo in Venice. Notwithstanding, in order to commemorate the anniversary, on December 4, VIU will host an online roundtable via zoom, with the participation of representatives from the member universities.
The fourth edition of the Venice Universities Model European Union (VeUMEU) came to an end on Saturday, November 14. Organizing this year's VeUMEU was certainly not an easy task: the two-day conference, held on November 13 and 14, 2020, was in fact meant to take place at VIU in May. However, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the event was instead moved online. Nevertheless, it was a success, generating many instructive discussions regarding Europe's most pressing sociopolitical issues.
Through the Anglo-Russian Research Network, an Exeter Modern Languages & Cultures series with Pushkin House provides an episodic history of Russian-English translation and cultural relations, from the first-ever translator of Russian poetry into English (Exeter’s Sir John Bowring) to present-day publishing.
The content seeks to entertain and be accessible to the general public, as well as Russianists. To find out more about the series, please visit this webpage.
A series of monthly ‘Myco Talks’ is being run out of Exeter’s Centre for Medical Mycology.
The talks are given by some of the maximum experts in the field. The next talk, which will focus on the topic "Tolerating challenges: lessons from pathogenic yeast", will be hosted on the 17th of December 2020 by Prof. Joseph Heitman as the Chair and Neil Gow as the Deputy Chair, with Judy Berman as the main guest speaker.
To get to know more about this event you can visit the dedicated webpage.
Each semester scholarships are awarded to talented students to contribute to the cost of living in Venice for a semester, to promote excellence and diversity in the Globalization Program.
With the unravelling of the Covid-19 global crisis, new and innovative ways of teaching and studying have been both devised and implemented. Amid this difficult situation, VIU once again proves its ambitious nature and its excellence-driven choices. In 2018 the Academic Council began a thorough review of the Globalization Program, taking into account both the students’ feedback and consultations with the member universities. The outcome is the introduction in 2021 of four new specialization tracks, alongside the Cultural Heritage, and Sustainable Development tracks.
The Calls for applications for the 2021 Intensive Graduate Activities opened December 5, 2020.
Students and scholars from the member universities are encouraged to explore the programs on offer in 2021, 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.
Circular Economy Challenge | November 14-15, 2020 | online
Two days dedicated to teamwork and innovative projects, to find sustainable solutions towards the Circular Economy.
How to boost the Circular Economy starting from the Lagoon of Venice’s area?
Venice International University is scientific partner in the the 5th Edition of the Climathon Venice. The event will be held on November 14-15, 2020 at the ex Church of Santi Cosma et Damiano, now called Fabbrica H3. The Climathon is organized by Venice Calls and will be hosted by SerenDPT Benefit Corporation. The Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC) is also scientific partner in the event.
In a time where reporting about COVID-19 is no longer merely a prerogative of science journalists, the importance of empowering and training journalists, including those without specialist scientific knowledge is more relevant than ever.
Among the several outputs to be released by the QUEST Project in the second half of 2020 is JECT.AI, a tool for journalists based on AI support. This tool has been created to allow journalists to report about science more effectively.
The development of JECT.AI is led by QUEST partner City, University of London. JECT.AI takes advantage of a variety of automation systems in order to support journalists incorporating writing practices generally associated with good science journalism.
On June 11-13 2021 we are organizing the second edition of the "Venice World Multidisciplinary Conference on Republics and Republicanism"
Keynotes | Quentin Skinner | Cécile Laborde
The keynote speakers will be Quentin Skinner, professor at Queen Mary University of London, author of Liberty Before Liberalism (1998) and co-editor and contributor to Republicanism: A Shared European Heritage, 2 volumes (2002), a classic in the field and Cécile Laborde, professor of Political Theory, University of Oxford, and author of Critical Republicanism. The Hijab Controversy in Political Philosophy (2008).
CALL FOR PAPERS
The call for panel themes has closed with great response. The call for papers is now open. We invite all the speakers suggested in the panel proposals and any other scholar interested in participating in the Conference to send a paper title with an abstract of approximately 250 words plus their CV and full contact address (including email) to luca.pes@univiu.org and in CC silvia.casalini@univiu.org. Deadline: November 30, 2020.
In the scope of the Icarus Project cofinanced by the ITA-HR Interreg Program, VIU organizes an on-line training path for Public Authority with the aim of increasing the capacity of Organizations in developing sound and sustainable projects and investments on green mobility.
On the 11th November, the webinar n.4 “Open data to improve the mobility planning” will host the transport expert Gennaro Ciccarelli.
SPROUT ha completed the analysis of the pilot cities specific scenarios, a work that can be read on the section “Resources” of the SPROUT website here
VIU_TeDIS is one of the partners of the SPROUT project: Sustainable Policy RespOnse to Urban mobility Transition, financed by the H2020 Program.
SPROUT provides a new city-led innovative and data driven policy response to address the impacts of the emerging mobility patterns, digitally-enabled operating and business models, and transport users’ needs.
A new University of Exeter lecture series will examine the role of humanities experts in tackling global crises, including health, the climate emergency and racial injustice. The online events, free and open to the public, will also showcase discussions on how humanities research can help universities better conduct their global activities and be agents of positive change.
The EU Commission has launched a Manifesto to maximise the accessibility of research results in the fight against COVID-19.
The manifesto provides guiding principles for beneficiaries of EU research grants for coronavirus prevention, testing, treatment and vaccination to ensure that their research results will be accessible for all and guarantee a return on public investment.
