Schools

SUMMER SCHOOL

General Aim 

The ChemiNova Summer School aims to equip students with the skills needed to identify, monitor, and address damages to cultural heritage (CH) assets using innovative remote monitoring tools and methodologies. The program will combine theoretical knowledge, practical exercises, and expert-led discussions to enhance participants’ ability to contribute effectively to the conservation and protection of cultural heritage.

Objectives 

1. Knowledge Transfer: Introduce students to new and innovative remote methods for monitoring the state of preservation of cultural heritage materials. 
2. Tool Exploration: Familiarize students with the tools developed by ChemiNova, such as ChemInspection and ChemiSensing. 
3. Practical Application: Provide hands-on experience in using these tools for condition reporting and damage assessment. 
4. Collaboration: Foster dialogue and collaboration among students, heritage professionals, and project partners. 

Target Audience

• Students

Backgrounds: Degree in Fine Arts, Degree in History, Degree in Art History, Degree in Conservation and Restoration of Real Estate, Degree in Geography and Environment, Degree in Information and Documentation, Degree in Technical Architecture, Degree in Audiovisual Communication, Degree in Design and Creative Technologies, Degree in Foundations of Architecture, Degree in Industrial Computing and Robotics, Degree in Telecommunication, Sound and Image Systems Engineering, Degree in Digital and Multimedia Technology, Degree in Interactive Technologies, Degree in Multimedia Engineering, Degree in Data Science, Degree in Computer Engineering, Degree in Telecommunication Electronic Engineering, Degree in Industrial Electronic Engineering, Degree in Chemical Engineering, Degree in Telematics Engineering; Master in Art History and Visual Culture, Master in Cultural Heritage, Master in Cultural Management, Master in Chemical Engineering, Master in Web Technologies, Cloud Computing and Mobile Applications, Master in Data Science, Master in Archaeology, Master in Chemistry, Master in Experimental Techniques in Chemistry, Erasmus Mundus Master in Theoretical Chemistry and Computational Modelling, Master in Audiovisual Contents and Formats, Master in Data Science, Master in Archaeology, Master in Chemistry, Master in Experimental Techniques in Chemistry, Master in Theoretical Chemistry and Computational Modelling, Master in Audiovisual Contents and Formats, Master in Data Science, Master in Data Science, Master in Data Science, Master in Archaeology, Master in Chemistry, Master in Chemistry, Master in Experimental Techniques in Chemistry. 

• Preference: To have completed a course on new technologies applied to cultural heritage or virtualisation of cultural heritage certified by a university (not mandatory).

Expected Outcomes 

• Participants will gain a comprehensive understanding of innovative tools and methodologies for cultural heritage preservation. 
• Enhanced skills in using ChemiNova tools for monitoring and condition reporting. 
• Increased awareness of the impacts of climate change and anthropogenic factors on cultural heritage. 
• A network of future heritage professionals equipped to train others in the use of these tools. 

Additional Information 

• Materials: Participants will receive access to digital resources. 
• Follow-Up: Participants will be encouraged to stay engaged with the ChemiNova project through webinars and future training opportunities. 

Registration

ChemiNova Summer School programme lasts 4 days. The first three days are in online modality (masterclass and expert-led discussions via Zoom) and the last day is on-site (fully practical).

There is no limit for the online modality, however, there is a limit of 20 students for on-site modality in Valencia, which will be held in the historic building of La Nau, cultural heritage of the University of Valencia. 

Important: ChemiNova does not pay for students to stay or travel to Valencia for the last day of the programme (entirely practical).

The CNR-ISAC summer school, this year co-organised with Università Politecnica delle Marche and Università di Genova, and supported by the "WIND RISK" project, funded by Next Generation EU, will take place at Hotel Orsa Maggiore in Castro Marina, a very nice marine resort close to Lecce, in the south-eastern corner of Italy, from June 30 to July 4, 2025.

The purpose of the Summer School is to provide an intensive and comprehensive review of the current knowledge on some hot topics in severe weather, ranging from observations to predictions. This year the focus will be on subjects of growing interest in the research and operational community, such as atmospheric rivers and downbursts, analysed in a changing climate context. The school is primarily addressed to PhD, Master students in atmospheric sciences and post-doc researchers and operational forecasters from regional and national meteorological agencies.

The registration will be closed on May 02, 2025.
A maximum of 40 students will be admitted.

The Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR-ISAC) and the University of Naples “Parthenope”, with the technical support from Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) are delighted to announce the 2nd International School on Satellite Meteorology (ISSM) (1-5 September 2025 at CNR Territorial Research Area Conference Centre, Bologna, Italy).

Topics
The core program of the school, based on the theory of satellite remote sensing, satellite observation exploitation and next-generation satellite missions for meteorological applications, will be enriched by new advanced themes focused on computational schemes based on artificial intelligence (AI), high performance computing (HPC) for numerical weather forecast and the groundbreaking digital twins of the Earth system. Addressing current global societal problems requires such a wide range of expertise from remote sensing, machine learning algorithm development, and advanced computational skills. A visit to the European supercomputer Leonardo, hosted and managed by Cineca in Bologna, will be included in the school activity. Leonardo is one of the three pre-exascale systems announced by EuroHPC Joint Undertaking for applications in the field
of the mitigation and management of risks due to extreme situations, natural events, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic events, flash flood.

Applicants
ISSM aims to train the next generation of scientists and operational meteorologists to consider remote measurements from space as a key point for understanding and modeling meteorological phenomena. The initiative is open to Ph.D. students in physical, environmental, atmospheric, or related sciences, and early career operational meteorologists and researchers. Electronics, Aerospace and Astronautical Engineers who want to enrich their CVs are welcome.

Pre-registration (open till 28 FEBRUARY 2025)
The pre-registration is free! Through pre-registration applicants simply specify in advance their plan to participate to ISSM 2025. Each pre-register will be contacted to confirm and formalize the registration fee to ISSM 2025. Pre-registration offers then possibility to apply for a fee waiver application to ISSM 2025 (grant position). Grant positions will be assigned on the basis financial resources of the school and the merit of the candidate curriculum.

Registration and Costs (OPEN from 1 March to 30 June 2025)
The registration fee is 600 € and includes teaching material, coffee breaks, lunches, and social dinner.
The school’s fee also includes the excursion to the Italian Climate Observatory “Ottavio Vittori” on the top of Mount Cimone (2165 m).

Scientific Commitee
Sante Laviola (CNR-ISAC)
Elsa Cattani (CNR-ISAC)
Giorgio Budillon (University of Naples “Parthenope”)
Vincenzo Capozzi (University of Naples “Parthenope”)

CNR-ISAC, in collaboration with the University of Naples “Parthenope”, is pleased to announce the organization of the International School on Satellite Meteorology (ISSM).

The ISSM 2024 will take place on 2 - 6 September 2024 in the wonderful location of Villa Doria d’Angri in Napoli (Italy), a prestigious site of the University of Naples “Parthenope”.

The school will be focused on Satellite Meteorology as the study of the atmospheric, land, and oceanic systems using remotely sensed data from different sensors onboard meteorological satellites. The basic principles of satellite remote sensing of weather features connected to microphysics of clouds and precipitation will be treated, as well as the fundamentals of retrieval methods, satellite imagery interpretation and products for science and operational meteorology. A special focus will be swept to the sensor technology and satellite development, launch, and in-orbit management.

The ISSM will provide frontal lectures and practical hands-on sessions for a wide audience composed by operational meteorologists, MSc. graduates and PhD students, early career researchers, young Electronics, Aerospace and Astronautical Engineers.

Registration deadline: 30 June 2024

Contacts and more information:
https://issm2024.isac.cnr.it/
issm2024 [at] isac.cnr.it

The 9th training school on Convective and Volcanic Clouds (CVC) detecting, monitoring and modelling will take place in Nicolosi, Sicily (Italy) 5-13 October 2024.

The training school is supported and organized by researchers of the CIMA Foundation, INGV, and CNR. 

Attending the school you will get an overview of the state of the art techniques and methods for detecting and monitoring the volcanic and convective clouds, you will know the different instruments and platforms allowing us to get the best performance in detecting such kind of clouds, you will be projected to the future learning about new missions planned for solving the main issues on these fields, you will be involved in real applications as early warning systems and modelling, you will directly analyze the data.

The school topics will range from satellite instruments such as IR sensors or GNSS to aircraft measurements like lidar and radar, from the study of ash and SO2 clouds to tropical cyclones, Mediterranean hurricanes, land and maritime convection.

The purpose of the School is to train students with outstanding research interest in the techniques allowing to detect, monitor, and model convective and volcanic clouds, to gain knowledge of the instruments and satellite missions (present and future) and to be able to support such kind of studies. The double aim is to create a school managed by young scientists already well established and recognized in their respective fields for young scientists willing to reinforce or develop their knowledge on atmospheric extreme events detection and monitoring for supporting policy makers, early warning systems and aviation safety.

The CVC school 2024 will take place in Nicolosi (Italy) on the slopes of Etna volcano. During the CVC 2024 all the topics will be deepened, and the participants will get an added value from:

- a field measurement campaign they will be part of;

- an excursion to the Etna craters;

- laboratories using professional software applied to real data;

- presenting their research to the other participants and to the lecturers.

All the info 

http://www.cvctrainingschool.org/school/

Registration

https://forms.gle/WFPJppxfsRctgCZw6 

Applications

The School is open to everybody with priority for graduate students, PhD students and early career researchers. More info available at the website http://www.cvctrainingschool.org/  

Registration deadline: 30 May 2024

The UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe is looking for students from the fourth and fifth year of high school and the first and second year of a university Bachelor’s degree (Geoscience, Engineering, Environmental Sciences, Arts, Architecture, Urban Planning, etc.) interested in participating in the GEO4CIVHIC Summer School 2023, which is going to be held on 28/09/2023 at Palazzo Zorzi, premises of the UNESCO Regional Bureau, in Venice.

The 15 selected students will have the opportunity to participate in the event in person, where they will learn about the activities of the European Project GEO4CIVHIC and have the chance to meet and work with some experts in the field of geothermal shallow energy applied to civil and historical buildings. 

• Event https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/geo4civhic-summer-school-heating-and-cooling-our-buildings-green-energy?hub=66976
• Concept note https://articles.unesco.org/sites/default/files/medias/fichiers/2023/08/GEO4CIVHIC%20summer%20school%20Concept%20Note%20final.pdf
• Agenda https://articles.unesco.org/sites/default/files/medias/fichiers/2023/09/GEO4CIVHIC%20Summer%20school%20Provisional%20agenda%20final.pdf

 UNESCO WEBSITE

We are honored to announce the

IX International Summer School: : The challenge of precipitation prediction.

The International Summer School will be held in Castro Marina (LE) from 3 to 7 July 2023.

The Summer School is organized by the Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate of the CNR and  by the Polytechnic University of Marche

The registration is now open at https://ss2023.le.isac.cnr.it/, until 15 May 2023.

On May 9-11th 2023 the European WRF-Chem User Workshop will take place in Lecce, Italy. The workshop will last 2 or 3 days, depending on the number of abstracts received. The objective of the workshop is to encourage interactions and discussions between users of the regional chemistry-transport model WRF-Chem

The WRF-Chem Workshop is intended to discuss regional air quality applications of the WRF-Chem model, and some more over-all topics. Other purposes of the workshop are to provide understanding and helping on the WRF-Chem atmospheric transport model, with a focus on the practical implementation for beginners, and to reinforce network between worldwide users.

Each participant will present its work during the workshop, also posters are welcome, since there will be poster sessions during the workshop.

Mauro Morichetti e Umberto Rizza (ISAC Lecce)

website:  http://european-wrf-chem-workshop.le.isac.cnr.it/

We are honored to announce the 3rd International summer school: "SORBETTO: SOlar Radiation Based Established Techniques for aTmospheric Observations".

The school,held in Rome and Frascati from 6 to 10 February 2023, is open to researchers, young or not, PhD students and workers involved in this type of atmospheric observations.

It is organized by the Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate of the CNR, by the University Sapienza, and it is funded by SERCO and ESA in the framework of the QA4EOand by the project EMPIR-MAPP .

The main topics will be:

-radiometry; -photometry; -spectrometry; -inter-comparison campaigns; -cal/val for satellite missions.

The school will include theoretic lessons and laboratory activities held by International teachers from leading Universities and Research Centers in Europe and Asia.

The registration is now open at http://sorbetto2.artov.isac.cnr.it/, until al 31 December 2022.

Preventive conservation of coastal archaeological sites and cultural landscapes in the Mediterranean Basin

The School will combine understanding of the impact of pollution and extreme events linked to climate change on coastal and underwater archaeological remains, monumental complexes and cultural landscapes, with main focus on measures of protection to natural and anthropogenic risks (floods, sea level rise, fires, volcanic activity and air pollution) and strategies of preparedness in response to emergency and recovery.

• 6th to 9th July 2022 
• No course fee
• In English language

The school will be designed to provide an informal and interactive environment between students and lecturers and will also include a boat trip to explore the terraced landscape of the Aeolian Islands. In addition, demonstrative activity in the field for the construction of dry stone wall has been planned.

The school is organized by CNR-ISAC, Università della Calabria and UWK, in collaboration with H2020 Projects SCORE, TECTONIC and STRENCH

ENVIMAT 2022 functions as Multiplier Event of the ERASMUS+  Project CHePiCC online “Cultural Heritage Protection in Climate Change online”.

Information: a.sardella [at] isac.cnr.it