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”)

Il CNR-ISAC, in collaborazione con l'Università di Napoli "Parthenope", annuncia l'organizzazione dell'International School on Satellite Meteorology (ISSM).

L'ISSM 2024 avrà luogo dal 2 al 6 Settembre 2024 nella meravigliosa location della Villa Doria d’Angri in Napoli (Italy), sito prestigioso dell'Università di Napoli "Parthenope".

La Scuola si concentrerà sulla meteorologia satellitare come studio dei sistemi atmosferici, terrestri e oceanici utilizzando dati rilevati da remoto da diversi sensori a bordo di satelliti meteorologici. Verranno trattati i principi di base del remote sensing satellitare delle caratteristiche meteorologiche legate alla microfisica delle nuvole e delle precipitazioni, nonché i fondamenti dei metodi di recupero, dell'interpretazione delle immagini satellitari e dei prodotti per la scienza e la meteorologia operativa. Un'attenzione particolare sarà rivolta alla tecnologia dei sensori e allo sviluppo, al lancio e alla gestione in orbita dei satelliti.

L'ISSM fornirà lezioni frontali e sessioni pratiche per un vasto pubblico composto da meteorologi operativi, laureati magistrali e dottorandi, ricercatori ad inizio carriera, giovani ingegneri elettronici, aerospaziali e astronautici.

Scadenza registrazione: 30 Giugno 2024

Contatti e maggiori informazioni:
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

Siamo lieti di annunciarvi la IX edizione della

Summer School: The challenge of precipitation prediction

Quest'anno la scuola internazionale si terrà a Castro Marina (LE) dal 3 al 7 Luglio 2023.

La scuola è è organizzata dall'Istituto di Scienze dell'Atmosfera e del Clima del CNR e dall'Università Politecnica delle Marche

La registrazione è già possibile tramite il link "Registration" della pagina https://ss2023.le.isac.cnr.it/, fino al 15 Maggio 2023.

Dopo alcuni anni di pausa per cause di forza maggiore, dal 9 all'11 maggio 2023 a Lecce, “l’European WRF-Chem Workshop” tornerà a svolgersi. Il seminario durerà 2 o 3 giorni, a seconda del numero di abstract ricevuti. L'obiettivo del seminario è incoraggiare le interazioni e le discussioni tra gli utilizzatori del modello regionale di trasporto chimico WRF-Chem.

Il workshop ha lo scopo di discutere le innumerevoli applicazioni nella qualità dell'aria del modello WRF-Chem, supportare e aiutare gli utilizzatori nelle proprie ricerche, con particolare attenzione all'implementazione pratica per i principianti, e rafforzare la rete tra gli utenti in tutto il mondo.

Ogni partecipante presenterà il proprio lavoro durante il seminario, anche i poster sono i benvenuti.

Mauro Morichetti, Umberto Rizza e Antonio Donateo (ISAC Lecce)

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

Siamo lieti di annunciarvi la terza edizione della
scuola internazionale:

Quest'anno la scuola internazionale si terrà a Roma e Frascati dal 6 al 10 Febbraio 2023.

E' aperta a ricercatori, dottorandi e lavoratori già coinvolti nel campo
delle osservazioni atmosferiche, o desiderosi di essere coinvolti in un
nuovo campo.

La scuola è gratuita ed è organizzata dall'Istituto di
Scienze dell'Atmosfera e del Clima del CNR, Università Sapienza di
Roma, e finanziata da SERCO ed ESA nell'ambito del progetto QA4AO e dal  progetto EMPIR-MAPP

La registrazione è già possibile tramite il link "Registration" della pagina web http://sorbetto2.artov.isac.cnr.it/,  fino al 31 Dicembre 2022.

Argomenti principali:

Teoria della radiazione solare
Fotometria 
Spettrometria 
Metrologia applicata alla radiometria solare

Panoramica del telerilevamento satellitare
Panoramica sulle missioni satellitari dell'ESA
Attività di Cal / Val

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

Si terrà online, dal 13 al 15 settembre 2021, la scuola SORBETTO: SOlar Radiation Based Established Techniques for aTmospheric Obervations.

La scuola è aperta a ricercatori, dottorandi e lavoratori già coinvolti nel campo delle osservazioni atmosferiche, o desiderosi di essere coinvolti in un nuovo campo.

Sommario
"Le osservazioni atmosferiche di gas e aerosol sono di grande interesse per studi climatologici, meteorologici e di inquinamento. Diverse tecniche, basate su misure di radiazione solare a terra, sono state sviluppate nell'ultimo secolo per stimare le proprietà ottiche e fisiche dell'aerosol atmosferico e dei gas "traccia". Gli strumenti automatici a terra, spesso organizzati in reti federate, sono in grado di effettuare osservazioni di alta qualità con una buona risoluzione temporale, procedure di calibrazione consolidate e tracciabili, e omogeneità dei metodi di analisi.
Tali reti possono quindi fornire buoni dati per la validazione e la calibrazione di missioni satellitari, già operative o  in fase di lancio.

Gli obiettivi della scuola sono:

- formare giovani scienziati fornendo loro una panoramica dello stato attuale delle tecniche di telerilevamento basate sulla misura della radiazione  solare, una solida base teorica e attività sperimentali pratiche;
- costruire un ponte tra le comunità internazionali coinvolte nelle scienze dell'atmosfera per stabilire e rafforzare le future cooperazioni.

Principali argomenti trattati:

- Strumenti a terra

  Teoria della radiazione solare
  Fotometria e reti
  Spettrometria e reti
  Metrologia applicata alla radiometria solare

- Satelliti
  Panoramica del telerilevamento satellitare
  Panoramica sulle missioni satellitari dell'ESA
  Attività di Cal / Val
 

La scuola è gratuita ed è organizzata dall'Istituto di Scienze dell'Atmosfera e del Clima del CNR, dall'Università Sapienza di Roma, dall'ESA e finanziato da SERCO, nell'ambito del progetto QA4AO e del progetto EMPIR-MAPP.

Sono aperte le iscrizioni fino al 31 agosto 2021 tramite il link "Registration" della pagina web della scuola:

http://sorbetto2.artov.isac.cnr.it/