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2014-06-30
Call for applications for lectureships in the Globalization Program

Venice International University wishes to invite applications from tenured professors and experienced scholars in employment at one of the member universities or the Italian National Research Council, ...
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Globalization Program: Fall 2014 registration open

Registration for the Fall 2014 semester opens July, 7. Over 100 students from all over the world will take courses on Italy, Cultures of the World and Global Challenges in the 15-week program.   ...
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2014-06-24
New challenges for energy system in the Mediterranean Region

Training course for public officers and energy experts from the Mediterranean Region   San Servolo Island, Venice November 2-6, 2014     Description   On November 2-6, 2014, Enel Foundat ...
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2014-06-23
Coping with Sea Level Rise: scholarship opportunities

  Limited places are still available for the VIU summer school on "Environmental Management in a Changing World: Coping with Sea Level Rise" jointly promoted by The Nicholas School of the Envi ...
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2014-06-18
Ministry of Science and Technology Training on High-Technology and Science Parks for Sustainable Development

In recent years science and technology industrial parks in China have seen a steep increase in number, pushed by the country's investments in innovation and research programs for the support of econom ...
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2014-06-17
Climate Ethics – interview with Prof. Metschl and Prof. Musu

      A seminar organized by the International Center for Climate Governance (ICCG) , held on May 27th, 2014, on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice provided the occasion for two VIU pr ...
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2014-06-03
Two courses of the Advanced Training Program in June 2014

Two courses of the Advanced Training Program are taking place in Italy in June 2014.   The Environmental Protection Bureaus of Beijing and Shanghai will jointly participate in the "Air Quality" tra ...
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Award of Scholarships for internships in Italy, Spring 2014

    During the Closing Ceremony of the Spring 2014 semester, Prof. Agar Brugiavini, Dean of VIU and Prof. Luca Pes, Director of VIU's School of Humanities and Social Sciences presented t ...
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Giulia De Zotti wins the 2014 Maria Weber Scholarship

In the course of the Spring 2014 Closing Ceremony, held on Thursday 29 May, the winner of this year's Maria Weber Scholarship was announced by the VIU Dean, Prof. Agar Brugiavini, the Director of ...
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2014-05-23
Visualizing Venice - summer 2014 Digital Workshop

From 3 to 13 June 2014, eighteen Master's students, Ph.D and Post Doctoral scholars in the Interpretive Humanities will attend the third edition of the intensive summer workshop on digital visualizati ...
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2014-05-13
VIULectures 1|14: Funding Cultural Heritage. May 21, 2014

    Guest speaker Clemente Marconi, Professor of Archeology at the New York University and Director of the IFA Excavations on the Akropolis of Selinunte. Besides researches on Art and Ar ...
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2014-05-07
Chinese Ministry of Environment Training on Air pollution

In western countries, the quality of the air they breathe is one of the main aspects that influence citizens’ perception of their life quality. In China, severe recent air pollution episodes caused ...
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2014-04-29
Spring 2014 Closing Ceremony. May 29, 2014

    The Spring 2014 semester of the Globalization Program closes on Thursday, 29 May 2014. Since February 2014, 116 students of 22 different nationalities throughout America, Asia and Eur ...
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Globalization Program, Fall 2014 pre-registration open

Pre-registration for the Fall 2014 semester opens April 29. Over 100 students from all over the world will take courses on Italy, Cultures of the World and Global Challenges in the 15-week program. T ...
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2014-04-25
Harvard Sustainability Science Course

The Sustainability Science Program at Harvard University and Venice International University offers an Advanced Short Course in Sustainability Science open to 30 active researchers selected by Harvard ...
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2014-04-04
Internship opportunities in Italy for VIU students

Students currently attending the Spring 2014 semester of the VIU Globalization Program are invited to apply for an internship placement in Italy and a mobility scholarship.   The Call for appli ...
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VIULectures 1|14: The World is Rooted in Air. April 16, 2014

Wednesday, 16 April 2014 5 pm, room 1G VIULectures 1|14: The World is Rooted in Air: Atmosphere, Lawscape, Spatial Justice   Guest speaker Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Professor of Law & ...
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Co-curricular highlights: mid-term trip to Naples, Rome and Florence

The mid-term trip to Naples, Rome and Florence is the highlight of the co-curricular program in April. Students will take part in two preparatory seminars on the Florentine Uffizi Galleries with Art ...
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VIU on the move. Cultural Heritage research in China.

Anna Olivotto, a Master’s student in Architecture and Conservation Sciences at Università IUAV di Venezia, participated in the VIU Globalization Program in Fall 2011 and was awarded a scholarship t ...
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Working paper on land deals available online

The working paper "The rush for agricultural land and water resources: the role of the European Union" is now available in the TEN Center Research section.   The paper, by M. Antonelli, G. Sicilian ...
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