Lectures suspended, actually not!
In these days, the University of Trento venues are actually very much alive.
Dozens of international students are following the conferences and seminars. It is time for Summer Schools! At the University of Trento speakers and students from all over the world are arriving to study in depth and to thoroughly examine various topics. Summer Schools are a different kind of university experience, engaging and international” says Maurizio Marchese, pro-rector at the international development of the University of Trento. And it adds on: “Summer Schools are meeting points for students and researchers coming from all over the world. An opportunity to be exposed to the most recent developments in the specific disciplines and to be involved in creative and practical courses.
Many are the initiatives the University of Trento offers. Today opened in Povo the IEEE ComSoc Summer School; it is organised in collaboration with IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) at the DISI - Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science - and it gathers, till July 9, graduates and international experts about the most important and specialised topics related to communication.
Always in Povo, till July 10, is currently underway the EIT Digital Summer School “Security and Privacy in Digital Life”.
Starting today and up to July 8, in Riva del Garda, there is the “Summer School on Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine. From the Biological Design to the Validation of Tissue Engineering Procedures and Scaffolds”, organised by the Department of Industrial Engineering, BIOtech and by the European Institute of Excellence on Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine.
The “International Summer School on Smart Materials & Structures. A cross-disciplinary perspective” has began today in Trento; this event is connected to the IEEE Workshop on Environmental, Energy and Structural Monitoring Systems: it is held at the Department of Sociology and Social Research.
Until July 10, in Mesiano, there is TIME European Summer School, titled “Sustainability and the Global Economy”, organised by the Department of Civil, environmental and mechanical engineering (DICAM) of the University of Trento, together with the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, the Royal Institute of Technology KTH of Stockholm, the Supélec of Parigi, the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, and the Istanbul Technical University.
At the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC), in Mattarello, is underway the Harvard Summer Program in Mind/Brain Sciences, a program in cognitive sciences lasting eight weeks, offered by the Harvard Mind/Brain/Behavior (MBB) Interfaculty Initiative e dalla Harvard Summer School.
From August 3 till 7, in the Ledro Valley, there will be the “nunatak Tremalzo” Summer School, promoted together with the Pile-dwelling Museum of the Lake Ledro and the reserves of the Ledro Alps: an opportunity for university students to study in depth their knowledge regarding archeological research in a mountain environment.
“Language, culture and society. The challenges of transformation in Europe” will be held in Trento from August 31 till September 4; it is organised by the Department of Humanities in collaboration with the Department of Economics and Management, the participation of the Faculty of Law, the Department of Sociology and social research, the School of international studies, the Bereich Geistes und Sozialwissenschaften of the Technische Universität Dresden (TUD). A session will be dedicated to language and culture, and another on migration and demographic changes.
At the Department of Sociology and social research, from September 8 till 12, there will be the International Summer School in Urban Ethnography, third edition, organised in collaboration with “Ethnography and Qualitative Research” and “professionaldreamers”.
Meanwhile, on Friday the Moisa Summer School in Ancient Greek Music has closed his doors; organised by the Department of Humanities, with the major worldwide specialists in ancient greek music.
Other summer schools were held in the previous months. In June in Moena there was the first edition of “Advanced EU Competition Law and Economics” regarding antitrust issues, organised by the Antitrust Observatory. In June, again, CEEL (Cognitive and Experimental Economics Laboratory) proposed the 16th edition of “Intensive course on Inequality and the Changing Distribution of Income”. In May in Trento there was “Understanding Crisis and transformation in the UE 2015”, organised by the European Centre Jean Monet and the Department of Sociology and social research together with SAIS Europe of the Johns Hopkins University.
Attached the press release