VERA Centre
The Venice centre in Economic and Risk Analytics for Public Policies (VERA) is the Centre of the Department of Economics focusing on big data applied to social welfare and wellbeing, risk analytics and evaluation of public policies. A primary aim of the Centre is to inform policy makers and to provide scientific support for decisions concerning several policy challenges such as the sustainability of welfare and health systems, the phenomenon of migration, the impact of ageing, the effects of climate change, the mitigation strategies of environmental impacts, the emergence of policy and financial instability.
The activities of the Centre will address four of the Ca’ Foscari Research Institutes for Global Challenges (Complexity, Social Innovation, International Studies, Green and Blue Growth) through methodologies and advanced systems based on the use of big data, social networks, georeferencing, experimental data (lab and field experiments).
One of the most important goals is to enhance production and use of big data and to develop economic, mathematical and statistical models applicable to different economic sectors such as agriculture and environment, health, finance, tourism and sustainability.
The VERA Centre is funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research [ITA] through the Department of Excellence Project for the period 2018-2022.
Objectives
Innovating research
Innovating research methods, adapting them to calculation models that can exploit the great potential of microdata and big data from different sources.
Strengthening research
Strengthening experimental research conducted in lab and field (lab and field experiments).
Improving public policies
Widening the fields of application of the analysis of and methodologies for the evaluation of public policies in order to improve their quality and effectiveness.
Training future decision makers
Training future economists and analysts able to provide scientific support for analysis and to identify potential public policy actions.
Attracting international talents
Enhancing international talent selection and recruitment in order to set up an international multidisciplinary and multicultural research team with the best talents on board.
News
Expression of Interest for ESG-UPTAKE project [ITA]
Fondazione Ca' Foscari, within ESG-UPTAKE project, is therefore looking for an academic entity (public or private University or Polytechnic University) to confer, through an informal tender, the implementation of scientific technical support to contribute to the activities of WP3 “Enhanced ESG supervisory framework”.
Deadline for application: July 15th 2024 at 12.00 pm.
VERA - SIdE Summer Schools in Econometrics: call for application is open until May 2nd 2024!
The Italian Econometric Association (SIdE) in collaboration with the VERA Centre organizes two summer Schools in Econometrics: Network Econometrics (1 July - 5 July 2024) and Advanced Bayesian Econometrics: Bayesian Multivariate Models and Forecasting in Economics and Finance (26 August - 30 August 2024). The summer schools will be held in Venice at the Department of Economics and online.
VERA Academy: the call is online!
The Department of Economics, within the new project of the Department of Excellence 2023-2027– “Venice Initiative on Vulnerability Analysis” , offers to students enrolled in its Master's Degree Courses 17 VERA ACADEMY internship grants. The 4 month internships will take place between January and June 2024.
Deadline for application: December 15th 2023.
The European TranspArEEnS project enters phase 3
TranspArEEns is a 30-month EU-funded project that aims to develop a qualitative-quantitative framework for the standardised collection and analysis of EE (energy efficiency) and ESG (Environmental Social Governance) information of small and medium-sized enterprises and deliver a standardised EE-ESG rating in accordance with the recommendations and benchmarks provided at European level by the EU Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance (TEG).