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Events

The San Basilio Waterfront Music Fest is back on 3 October: apply now and bring your music to the stage!

The San Basilio Waterfront Music Fest is back for its fourth edition — the big music celebration that brings the area between Magazzini 5 and 6 to life returns on Friday, 3 October 2025. Want to take the stage and share your music with us? Apply by 24 August 2025, and let us hear what you've got!

People

Ca’ Foscari researcher Kassa Belay Ibrahim among winners of the SAFE Fellowship supporting outstanding scholars from crisis-affected countries

Ca’ Foscari selected the project submitted by Kassa Belay Ibrahim, an Etiophian researcher and lecturer in the Department of Molecular Sciences and Nanosystems, through an internal call. His proposal was among the final winners of the SAFE Fellowship, which received 356 applications from across Europe.

People

Protecting Cultural Heritage During Armed Conflict: The Experiences of Two Visiting Scholars from Sudan to Venice Through the Erasmus+ ICM Project

Nuha Abdelhafiz Abdelaziz Abdalla and Sara Mohammed Mamon Ahmed are, respectively, an assistant professor and a PhD student in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Khartoum in Sudan.

University

Internationalisation and support for deserving students: Ca’ Foscari and the SAVE group sign agreement to fund scholarships in China

The agreement was signed by Ca’ Foscari University Rector Tiziana Lippiello and SAVE Group President Enrico Marchi. The scholarships, available for the 2025–2026 academic year, will supplement existing funding for Ca’ Foscari students enrolled in the double degree programme with Capital Normal University in Beijing

Events

Ca’ Foscari Joins Uzbekistan Delegation with PM Meloni — Presenting Marco Polo and Uzbekistan: 'A Cultural Dialogue Across the Centuries'

‘Marco Polo and Uzbekistan: A Cultural Dialogue Across the Centuries’ is the title of the book presented by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, during the bilateral summit in Samarkand. The publication features a translation into Uzbek — coordinated by Ca’ Foscari professor Elisabetta Ragagnin — of the first book of Giovanni Battista Ramusio’s version of Il Milione, in which Marco Polo recounts his travels through regions that correspond to present-day Uzbekistan.

Research

First machine learning model developed to calculate the volume of all glaciers on Earth

 An international study led by Ca’ Foscari researchers aims to become a benchmark for future glacier melt projections.

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