Bando Travel Grant 2026
Application deadline: January 9, 2026.
Contributions will be paid until funds are exhausted for periods abroad of at least 90 days with departure dates between January 1 and December 31, 2026.

*Seminar: Recent Developments in Numerical Methods for PDE-Constrained Optimization
Prof. John Pearson, Visiting Professor from the School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh (UK)
Wednesday Dicember 10, 2025, 03:30 PM Sala Polivalente - Dipartimento ICEA, Via F. Marzolo 9, Padova
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*Seminar: An Introduction to Numerical Methods for PDE-Constrained Optimization
Prof. John Pearson, Visiting Professor from the School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh (UK)
Tuesday Dicember 9, 2025, 03:30 PM Sala Polivalente - Dipartimento ICEA, Via F. Marzolo 9, Padova
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*PhD Course Welcome Meeting at Department ICEA / 27.11.2025 / 09:30 am-12.00 pm / Sala Polivalente
The PhD Course Coordination Team wants to give to the new 41st cycle PhD students a warm welcome, organizing a Welcome Meeting on Thursday, November 27th, 2025, from 09:30 am to 12.00 pm, in Sala Polivalente (Department ICEA), Via Marzolo 9, Padua. 
During the meeting we will present the organisation & the educational offer of our PhD Course, the main reference contacts and some useful information, hoping to get your doctoral experience at DICEA more enjoyable.

*Workshop of cultural heritage & digital modeling 
Prof. Michael J.K. Walsh, Nanyang Technological University of Singapore - NTU
Friday, November 21, 2025, 10:00 AM - ICEA Department - Aula Seminari, Via Venezia 1, Padua
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*Seminar:  Use of CO2 in the valorization of concrete residues as a pathway toward carbon neutrality
Prof. Viviana Cecilia Letelier Gonzalez (Universidad de La Frontera - Chile)
Friday, November 21, 2025, 10:30 AM - T, Palazzo Donghi - ICEA Department, Via Marzolo 14, Padua
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*Call for the assignment of further PhD places to the PhD Courses 2025/26
(the selection published by the University of Padova here closed on August 26th, 2025).
Results of the evaluation of qualifications with candidates admitted to the oral examination, timetable interviews and results of the evaluation of oral examination are published below.

Results of the evaluation of qualifications with candidates admitted to the oral examination

Timetable interviews and Zoom meeting link (only for applicants who requested to take the oral examination remotely) [password protected file].

Results of the evaluation of oral examination [password protected file].

*Call for admission to the PhD Courses 2025/26
(the selection published by the University of Padova here closed on May 13rd, 2025)

The results of the evaluation of qualifications with candidates admitted to the oral examination, the timetable interviews and the results of the evaluation of the oral exams are published below.

Results of the evaluation of qualifications with candidates admitted to the oral examination.

Timetable interviews and Zoom meeting link (only for applicants who requested to take the oral examination remotely) - [password protected file].
In person interviews will take place on Tuesday June 10th, 2025 starting from 09:00 a.m. (CEST) in Sala Donghi, Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, via Marzolo 9, Padua (Italy).

Results of the evaluation of the oral exams - [password protected]. 

*Seminar:  The metabolic regime of river networks
Prof. Enrico Bertuzzo, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia
Monday, September 29, 2025, 4:00 PM -  Aula Magna G. F. Azzone, Vallisneri Building, Via Ugo Bassi 58/B, Padua
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*Seminar: Building transition matrices for the projection of road infrastructure condition metrics
Dr. Daniel Castillo, Michigan State University 
Wednesday, june 25, 2025 , 12:00 PM - Room R - Department ICEA, Via F. Marzolo 9, Padua
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*Seminar: Turbulence and particles: at the frontiers of environmental fluid mechanics
Prof. Markus Holzner, Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and River Research of Boku University 
Wednesday, june 17, 2025 , 15:00 PM - Sala Polivalente room - Department ICEA, Via F. Marzolo 9, Padua

*Two seminars on "Geotechnical and Safety Aspects of Tailing Dams"
Prof. Davide Besenzon, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral - ESPOL (Guayaquil, Ecuador) 
Tuesday 25 and Wednesday 26 March 2025 at 2:30 pm in Room CM2 - Department ICEA, Via Ognissanti 39, Padua
The seminars are organized under the Erasmus+ K171 agreement activated between the Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral and the University of Padua, and will be conducted in Italian.