The National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics – OGS, a partner in the Project RESources in Coastal groundwater Under hydroclimatic Extremes (RESCUE), funded by Water 4 All and co-funded by the European Union, will feature at the 9th DFBC (Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage) Sustainability Talk at the University of Ca’ Foscari in Venice this month.
By May, eleven talks will have taken place since November, with the aim of offering an agile way of scientific and educational communication on the theme of sustainability. In particular, thanks to the richness of the topics addressed, which concern all dimensions of sustainability (economic, environmental, social), the TALKs aim to keep the attention high both on the need for a careful analysis of the individual problems posed by the emergencies of historical time and on the urgency of their recomposition within overall frameworks that map their interconnections, favoring, in this way, an interdisciplinarity that is no longer occasional, but finally organic to the analysis of complex problems.
For this edition there are two novelties: the TALKs will be held in the morning and the introduction of Zone S – Visions and practices of sustainability, a space for shared thought dedicated to the exploration of the connections between knowledge, languages and practices that question sustainability as a cultural, educational and civil horizon.
RESCUE will appear on 29 April from 10.00 to 11.30 with Prof. Angelo Camerlenghi (OGS) presenting The water we didn’t know existed. What to do with it?
The presentation will be followed by a dialogue on Visions and Practices of Sustainability with Sophie Burton Pogledic (OGS), Cristina Corradin (OGS), and Michela Giustiniani (OGS).
To register, please fill out the Google registration form – DFBC | ST
The link to participate remotely is: https://bit.ly/DFBCTalks2026
Please note the event will take place in Italian.
The official organisers of the TALKs are the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, together with the International Centre for Studies on Educational Research (CISRE), under the patronage of Ca’ Foscari Sostenibile and Ca’ Foscari Alumni – TerzaMissioneDFBC.
Led by the University of Trieste (UNITS), RESCUE’s objective is to help establish the foundations for the evaluation of new resources for local and regional policy makers, while the global applicability of the outputs will allow upscaling to Europe-wide or other large areas worldwide, where water is needed. The Consortium of the 36-month long project, which began in March 2024 and ends in February 2027, also includes Ruden AS, University of Derby (UoD) and University of Malta (UM).
