Venice International University (VIU) is an international center for higher education and research located on the island of

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, in

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It was established on December 15, 1995 as a consortium of five Universities and two Italian Institutions. Since its foundation, Venice International University has grown to include a total of twenty members (as of 2020), in collaboration and with support of the

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(Italian: ''Città metropolitana di Venezia''). *

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(Italian: ''Università Ca' Foscari Venezia'') *

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(Italian: ''Università IUAV di Venezia'') *

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(Italian: ''Università degli Studi di Padova'') *

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SHSS - School of Humanities and Social Sciences

The School of Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS) offers university courses, intensive seminars, extra-curricular and co-curricular activities and summer schools during the two academic semesters (Fall and Spring) that are held every year. All courses are offered in English by professors from the Member Universities and they are open to all students in the Member Universities.

TEDIS Center

TEDIS (Center for Studies on Technologies in Distributed Intelligence Systems) is a research center established within Venice International University in 1999. The center carries out research on innovation and competitiveness, under the supervision of an international management committee. TEDIS has also developed a joint research program on industrial districts, globalization, and global value chains in cooperation with Duke University Center on Globalization, Governance and Competitiveness. TEDIS research focuses on four main areas: * Industrial Districts, Technologies and Networks * SMEs, Local Clusters and Internationalization * Creativity, Design and Innovation * Transport, Logistics and Supply Chain Management

TEN Center

The Center for Thematic Environmental Networks (TEN) is a training and research center in the field of environment and sustainable development. In 2003, the Italian Ministry of Environment, Land and Sea selected TEN Center as the scientific partner for its Capacity Building activity within the Sino-Italian Cooperation Program for Environmental Protection as well as for the Course on Sustainability for East European countries, Central Asia and the Black Sea Region.

VIU Campus

Venice International University is located on the island of

, in buildings that were once a monastery and were then turned into a military hospital and later on into a psychiatric hospital which was disbanded in 1987. In 1995 the buildings underwent a meticulous restoration work and the island now offers a park with sport grounds, a cafeteria, a bar and some works of art by contemporary international artists, such as Kan Yasuda,

Pietro Consagra Pietro Consagra (6 October 1920 – 16 July 2005) was an Italian sculptor. In 1947 he was among the founding members of the Forma 1 group of artists, who advocated both Marxism and structured abstraction. Life Consagra was born on 6 Oc ...

, Fabrizio Plessi and

Sandro Chia Sandro Chia (born 20 April 1946) is an Italian painter and sculptor. In the late 1970s and early 1980s he was, with Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi, Nicola De Maria, and Mimmo Paladino, a principal member of the Italian Neo-Expressionist mov ...

. VIU facilities include lecture rooms, conference and seminar rooms, a library, pc rooms and broadband wi-fi connection. A public boat service connects the island to

historical center.

Notable people

Prominent scholars who have taught at Venice International University include: * Caroline Bruzelius, Professor of Art and Art History *

Orin Starn Orin Starn is an anthropologist and writer at Duke University. Starn is the author of ''Ishi's Brain: In Search of America's Last Wild Indian'' and co-author of '' The Shining Path: Love, Madness, and Revolution in the Andes'' with Miguel La Sern ...

, Professor of Cultural Anthropology and History *

Kristine Stiles Kristine Stiles (born Kristine Elaine Dolan in Denver, Colorado, 1947) is the France Family Distinguished Professor of Art, Art History and Visual Studies at Duke University. She is an art historian, curator, and artist specializing in global cont ...

* Josep Montserrat i Torrents

References

External links

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