Department of
Philosophy and Cultural Heritage

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Faculty positions

The Department hires the best talents through the calls for Faculty [ITA]. Foreign candidates benefit from facilitations and preferential criteria are laid down for candidates with international experience.

Research fellowships

Short-term research fellowships allow Master’s Degree graduates to pursue short-term research (less than 12 months normally) including them in existing projects and research groups.

Research grants

Research grants allow Master’s Degree graduates and PhDs to pursue research activities at the university or in the projects offered to the candidates.

Selections for temporary advisors

Through direct selection for temporary advisors [ITA] candidates can collaborate with Ca' Foscari University of Venice as experts with proven expertise and specialization. Applications are examined by a specific commission on the basis of the education, the resume and/or through an interview.

Specialist and academic tutors

The calls for applications for tutors [ITA] are aimed at students enroled in Master's or PhD Degree programmes and at international incoming students. Tutors support educational activities with courses, seminars, workshops, orientation for the study plan and the final paper, and welcome and assist international students.

Mission

The Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage (DFBC) aims to enable students in all disciplines with the development of interpretive, critical,analytical and communicative skills necessary to personal intellectual and moral development, cultural literacy, and achievement in the complexities of life in the 21st century.

The Department aims to foster among faculty and students a climate of mutual respect and support for engaging in scholarship, learning, and service that embraces diversity, respect for historic traditions, and the pursuit of knowledge in historic and contemporary approaches to philosophy, history of arts, education science and sociology.

In the field of philosophy, the primary mission is to provide some of the foundations of such a liberal arts education. In the field of cultural heritage, the main goal is to promote the study of the preservation of the cultural heritage and pass it on to future generations by providing conditions for the society to get to know and use it.

Opening hours

Communal Areas and Faculty offices at Malcanton Marcorà: from Monday to Friday 8.00 am - 7.30 pm, Saturday 8.00 am - 7.30 pm

Faculty offices receive by appointment from Monday to Friday. To schedule an appointment, please contact:

Sustainability

Since 2010 Ca’ Foscari commits to sustainability through the programme Sustainable Ca' Foscari and in September 2014 the Sustainable Campus project was launched to promote and develop sustainable actions and projects in all the university seats.

Following the interest shown by internal and external users of the University towards the recent editions of BookCrossing, the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage has decided to reserve this activity a permanent space at its headquarters (3rd floor, Malcanton Marcorà Palace) . Anyone can give and take books free of charge, participating to a virtuous circle based on re-use of resources and knowledge sharing.

Furthermore, DFBC students can acquire Sustainability Competencies: voluntary based activities dedicated to economic, social or environmental sustainability. The student must discuss with the contact professor of the involved Department to identify an activity, such as courses, workshops, interviews, research..., and the nature of its final proposal. Once the activity carried out and the final proposal approved, the teacher will register 1 extracurrricular CFU in the student’s plan of study.