Research

Archaeology in the Caucasus region: research, education and dissemination

Ca’ Foscari has been developing archaeological research in the South Caucasus, in Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan with significant outcome and international collaborations.

Anna Di Bartolomeo one of the #womeninresearch towards a new migration narrative

Anna Di Bartolomeo is a researcher and a professor at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, involved on current projects such as DomEqual studying such topics as domestic work, gender studies, migration and integration.

Caterina Cruciani for #womeninresearch: 'It’s very personal, It’s business'

This interview is the first one of the series #womeninresearch aiming at giving a voice to researchers at Ca’ Foscari and enhancing their role and work within the university.

What future for Murano glass? New solutions brought by science

With more than 100 artistic glass factory in only 1.17 square kilometres, Murano has meant glass for centuries, but globalization and limits set on pollutant emissions are threatening the survival of the system as it is.

Polluted woods: leaves contaminate soil with hydrocarbon

Research at Ca' Foscari shows the limits of Italian legislation and offers alternatives that would improve the evaluation of clearing the land.

“Life on Titan? With my molecules it is possible"

Could there be life on Titan? Manuela Facchin, PhD candidate and post-doc at Ca’ Foscari, synthesized new molecules that can self-assemble creating structures similar to cells but in oil instead of water.

Introducing ‘Pepper’, receptionist 4.0

Robotics and artificial intelligence are the foundations of the ongoing 4.0 revolution that is transforming the economy, including the tourism industry. In Italy the first research project was promoted by the Department of Management at Ca' Foscari in collaboration with the CISET.

#neocafoscarini: Serena Trucchi from the job market to San Giobbe

Ca' Foscari takes part of the meetings between universities and young economists in London where Serena Trucchi, at the time researcher at UCL, was found to become a researcher in Venice.

Scientific expedition at Rapa Nui for past reconstruction

Dario Battistel coordinates a project with an international multidisciplinary team to study the environmental and cultural history of the island.