Research

Robots that grow like plants, CCHT@Ca'Foscari holds its first seminar

The first cross-disciplinary seminar organised by Ca' Foscari and IIT will take place on March 25th, 4 p.m., in Aula Berengo. This event, focused on bioinspired robotics, will be the very first initiative of the new CCHT@Ca'Foscari.

Women, young people and working conditions in Arab countries

Maria Cristina Paciello, researcher at the Ca’ Foscari Department of Asian and North African Studies, investigates work dynamics in Arab countries, focusing on the condition of women and young people.

Meet the 19 'Marie Curie' Fellows at Ca' Foscari

Year after year, Ca’ Foscari keeps expanding its community of researchers who were granted a Marie Curie Fellowship: 19 brilliant minds were recruited in 2018, a national record. 

Looking at Tintoretto with John Ruskin

These two great historical figures meet again in Emma Sdegno’s book, a compilation of all the must-see masterpieces by Tintoretto, according to art critic John Ruskin. 

Warren Cairns from Concordia Station, Italy’s most remote outpost

My name is Warren Cairns, I'm a researcher with the CNR and I usually carry out my work in the Ca' Foscari Scientific Campus. Now I'm in Antarctica and I want to tell you how life here is.

8 ambitious projects and 2 new women researchers thanks to SPIN

Here are the names of the first 8 winner of the Ca' Foscari 'Supporting principal investigator' grant, an initiative which awarded 552.000 euros to support research. 

'Fixing' Artificial Intelligence, a European monitoring unit in Venice

Is artificial intelligence as 'intelligent' as we think? Can it be ethical and safe? The European project AIE4u will answer these and other questions on technology.

Stefania Bernini for #womeninresearch: immigration, family and society

Stefania Bernini, contemporary historian, studies large-scale social, political and cultural phenomena, through the lens of 'family'

Filming atoms to revolutionize technology. New ERC at Ca’ Foscari

Physicist and Erc grantee Stefano Bonetti splits his time between Sweden and Italy to study magnetism, employing cutting-edge technologies