Seasonal Schools, the intensive courses “of excellence”: from business models for the safeguard of biodiversity to artificial intelligence, the program for the first months of[...]

Seasonal Schools, the intensive courses "of excellence": from business models for the safeguard of biodiversity to artificial intelligence, the program for the first months of 2025. How to apply, all the reductions of the enrolment fee

Subscriptions are already open on the School's website, where you can also consult the detailed and updated agenda for each Seasonal School: BRI - Biodiversity and Business: from Research to Impact(onsite classes from January 27th to 31st); CISOD - Cibo, sostenibilità e diritti(on site classes from February 3rd to 7th); DS Inno - Data Science driven INNOvation in business and society(on site classes from February 10th to 14th); ECLIRE - The Ethics of Climate Change: Reshaping Responsibilities for Present and Future Generations(on site classes from February 24th to 28rd); INNO-GOOD - Management of Innovation and Common Good(on site classes from March 3rd to 7th); IACH - InnovACtion in Health care: strategy, performance and data management(on site classes from March 10th to 14th); INSIDER - Innovazioni nel Sistema della Rappresentanza(on site classes from March 17th to 21st); EUProspect - The Making of a New Europe(on site classes from March 24th to 28th); MIS2nano - From minimally invasive surgery to nanorobotics. A voyage in the field of intervention robotics(on site classes from March 31st April 4th); AIRONE - Artificial Intelligence and RObotics in exteNded rEality(on site classes from April 7th to 11th).

A reduction in the enrolment fee is available based on the applicant's ISEE or equivalent certification of income as indicated in the call (for students enrolled in a foreign University). A 450€ scholarship provided by Fondazione Il Talento all'Opera ente filantropicoand by EY Foundation Ente Filantropico T.S.will be assigned to the best performing participants of each course. Students coming from universities or institutions with specific agreements with Sant'Anna School are entitled to reserved places and to a 10% reduction in the enrolment costs. Affiliated Institutions: Università di Catania; Università della Tuscia; Università di Trento; Fondazione Onaosi; Università di Messina; Università di Camerino; Università della Calabria; Conferenza dei Collegi Universitari di Merito; Università di Palermo; Università Della Valle D'Aosta; Libera Università di Bolzano; Università Politecnica delle Marche; Università di Siena; Scuola Galileiana di Studi Superiori; Università di Pisa; Università di Firenze.

The upcoming Seasonal Schools

Applications for the Seasonal School BRI - Biodiversity and Business: from Research to Impactwill be open until December 8th, 2024 and classes will take place in presence from January 27th to 31st, 2025.

The protection of biodiversity is a global challenge, and the EU aims to lead the way in reversing its loss through its 2030 Biodiversity Strategy. Businesses play a crucial role in developing a model that safeguards and regenerates biodiversity and the ecosystem services they provide. The Seasonal School "Biodiversity and Business: from Research to Impact" is dedicated to tackling the global challenge of biodiversity protection and promoting a regenerative economic development model. The objectives of the Seasonal School are as follows: examine and promote a development model capable of protecting and regenerating biodiversity and the services that ecosystems provide, from a perspective of regenerative economic development; provide participants with stimuli and tools to understand and measure the impact of business on biodiversity; evaluate risks and opportunities and foster technological and organizational innovation, encouraging the development of new technological and organizational solutions that foster a regenerative economy that protects natural capital.

Applications for the Seasonal School CISOD - Cibo, sostenibilità e dirittiwill be open until December 8th, 2024 and classes will take place in presence from February 3rd to 7th, 2025.

The Seasonal School will introduce participants to the topic of food sustainability, exploring how to build sustainable and climate-resilient agri-food systems through a dialogue between social and life sciences. Regulatory and non-regulatory measures for socially inclusive and environmentally more efficient food systems will be addressed. The policy and legal implications of the transformative approach recently taken by the EU with the European Green Deal and the shift towards more sustainable solutions in a Farm to Fork perspective will be thoroughly analysed during the Seasonal School. Topics such as food security and the right to food, food safety, international trade, digital innovation and blockchain will be at a centre stage. Moreover, issues linked to farming and consumption models will be taken into consideration through seminars given by scholars from the life science Institute.

Applications for the Seasonal SchoolDS Inno - Data Science driven INNOvation in business and societywill be open until  December 8th, 2024 and classes will take place in presencefrom February 10th to 14th, 2025.

Due to technological advancements, increasing digitization, and the development of social media, as well as the widespread use of mobile devices with sensors and apps, the phenomenon of big data is becoming crucial not only for businesses but also for many sectors and society as a whole. Consequently, acquiring specific skills to effectively leverage the abundance of data in business innovation environments is particularly important. This Seasonal School aims to examine the relationship between innovation management and data science through a multi-level approach. First, this relationship will be explored at the company level through not only theoretical knowledge but especially through firsthand testimonials and site visits to large and small enterprises. Second, this relationship will be addressed at the sector level (e.g., healthcare and pharmaceuticals) and finally at the social level by presenting some direct experiences of computer scientists. To conclude, participants will also be provided with stimuli and tools of data science to understand and measure the complexity of this relationship.

Applications for the Seasonal School ECLIRE - THE ETHICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE: RESHAPING RESPONSIBILITIES FOR PRESENT AND FUTURE GENERATIONSwill be open until  December 8th, 2024 and classes will take place in presence from February 24th to 28th, 2025.

The Seasonal School aims to train participants on the ethics of climate change through a triple perspective: individual, global and intergenerational. It will also do so by opening up to disciplines beyond political and moral philosophy, such as political science, metaphysics, sociology and economics. The overall objective is to provide participants with the normative keys to analyse climate mitigation policies in the light of criteria such as historical responsibility, global asymmetries of economic power and adaptive capacity, and duties of justice towards future generations. The issue of social acceptability and socio-economic consequences will also be taken into account through the contribution of sociologists and social scientists. This will be preceded by an opening day with hard scientists dedicated to the introduction to climate change and the discussion of possible future risk scenarios. The Seasonal School includes interactive face-to-face lectures led by pairs of lecturers, climate policy-making simulations and interdisciplinary workshops.

Applications for the Seasonal School INNO-GOOD - Management of Innovation and Common Goodwill be open until  January 19th, 2025 and classes will take place in presence from March 3rd to 7th, 2025.

This Seasonal School addresses some of the main issues regarding innovation management and knowledge exchange (including technology transfer) with a broad vision which includes sustainability and health management. The specific approach of this Seasonal School focuses on the goal of contributing to the common good and aims at arousing the interest of participants from different scientific disciplines and focuses on the goal of contributing to the common good (at the level of universities, companies, territories). The theories and tools for managing innovation will be presented and discussed not with the objective of creating competitive advantage, but as a support to the ability to launch new initiatives of various kinds aimed at creating value for the society, especially in coherence with the need to rethink the current capitalism system. In this regard, some paradigms that are today at the centre of the debate on the transformation of the economy which is urgently needed will be presented, such as those of the creation of shared value, integral ecology and civil economy.

Applications for the Seasonal School IACH - InnovACtion in Health care: strategy, performance and data managementwill be open until  January 19th, 2025 and classes will take place in presence from March 10th to 14th, 2025.

The IACH School will cover specific research topics underpinning public health care system, with an emphasis on the analysis of real word evidence and data for a better use of assets and resources to achieve better outcomes and improved efficiency of care. The course will address the managerial implications of the recent pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), in terms of resilience and innovation. Students will explore, with both a theoretical and empirical approach, tools and frameworks related to data management, business and process reengineering, innovation strategies, decision-making processes, and performance assessment in the field of health care services. Innovation will be a key topic, meant as organizational, behavioral, and technological innovation. Innovative solution to boost patients and community participation, engagement and co-production in the care process will be discussed and analyzed in different setting of care. Students will be able to discuss challenging research issues, such as: how to measure and assess multi-stakeholder and multi-dimensional performance in health care; what are possible data driven solutions to cope with variation; how to develop innovative patient-driven interventions; what are the main levers to improve quality and appropriateness of care and how to address challenges facing the crisis, such as the pandemic, from the organizational perspective. Finally, different research methodological approach will be discussed.

Applications for the Seasonal School INSIDER - Innovazioni nel Sistema della Rappresentanzawill be open until  January 26th, 2025  and classes will take place online from March 17th to 21st, 2025.

The seasonal school offers a selective study program open to motivated undergraduate and PhD students, giving them the opportunity to obtain a specific training on the main current issues concerning political representation, electoral and parliamentary law in a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective that includes law, political science, political philosophy, economy as well as the contribution of other fields (e.g., ICTs). It is a kind of training that no ordinary university course is able to provide, in particular due to the presence of speakers with different background and expertise. The students will therefore acquire skills that will allow them to critically consider from different points of view the various paradigm changes in political representation. The course will be conducted by lecturers of different backgrounds, thus enabling participants to look at the subject matter from an interdisciplinary perspective. The course will be articulated in lectures, working groups, case studies as well as meetings with experts. Unless otherwise indicated, the lessons will be held in Italian. An advanced knowledge of the Italian language is therefore required.

Applications for the Seasonal School EUProspect - The Making of a New Europewill be open until  January 26th, 2025 and classes will take place in presence from March 24th to 28th, 2025.

The EUProspect Seasonal School offers a prospective and multidimensional view on the changing features of the European Union and new directions of the European integration process. It does so by focusing on three main projects elaborated by the European actors: the reform of the economic governance; the strengthening of military security envisaged by the Strategic Compass for Security and Defence; and the implementation of the ambitious strategy for climate neutrality laid down by the Green Deal. The purpose is to critically discuss each of these ongoing developments, their multiple relationships, the ways in which they reshape the mission and rationale of the EU. The structure of the course is a mixture of lectures and seminars. The intended learning outcome is a critical understanding of the ongoing institutional processes, the interpretation of their internal dynamics and interactions, an assessment of their rationale and implications.

Applications for the Seasonal School MIS2nano - From minimally invasive surgery to nanorobotics. A voyage in the field of intervention roboticswill be open until February 2nd, 2025 and classes will take place in presence from March 31st April 4th, 2025.

The Seasonal School will introduce participants to the highly interdisciplinary field of technologies for minimally invasive interventions, with focuses on intervention robotics and artificial intelligence, smart materials and innovative components, micro/nanorobotics, and on how to make innovative technologies meet the clinics. At the end of the School the participants will have gained knowledge on the state of the art and potential future developments of robotics and technologies for minimally invasive interventions; understanding of the scientific, clinical, and technological challenges posed by these highly interdisciplinary research field; hands-on experience on topics related to intervention robotics; ability to propose innovative solutions for complex scientific-technological problems with a multi-disciplinary and holistic approach.

Applications for the Seasonal School AIRONE - Artificial Intelligence and RObotics in exteNded rEalitywill be open until February 2nd, 2025 and classes will take place in presence April 7th to 11th, 2025.

The Seasonal School AIRONE will allow students to examine the most recent research developments at the intersection of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Extended Reality and to review their applications in a diverse range of sectors, e.g., Health, Space, Transportation, AIRONE will address the following topics: principles of "extended" reality technologies (Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality), methodologies and tools for the realization of immersive telepresence experiences, for the design and control of collaborative robots and wearable robotic systems for telepresence, for designing and programming next-generation artificial vision systems, machine learning and Artificial Intelligence tools, including Deep Learning for robotics; basic knowledge of the principles, methods and technologies of Human-Robot Interaction and Occupational Biomechanics in occupational contexts, hands-on activities, overview on applications and discussion of use cases applying these technologies.