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Call for itinerant VS2 Summer School
June 20 - June 27
Spoke 2 of the RETURN Project is organizing a summer traveling training school on ground instabilities – landslides, subsidence, sinkholes and liquefaction.
The training objective is to update on methodologies and techniques for the analysis, monitoring and control of these types of ground instabilities, the subject of research in Spoke 2. The training activities include a combination of technical visits and classroom teaching.
This selection is aimed at: i) staff of public bodies and institutions who hold roles and/or perform tasks (both in the technical and managerial fields) pertinent to the subject of the summer school; ii) staff of private companies and firms interested in in-depth studies and updates on the topics covered; iii) students in post-graduate training (PhD students, scholarship holders or research fellows). At the end of the school, a certificate of participation will be issued only to those attending who have followed the entire training course in person.
The technical visits will concern sites distributed along the entire Italian peninsula, from Valle d’Aosta to Palermo, which in the development of the project have constituted both case studies of learning on landslide, subsidence or sinkhole processes and natural laboratories, instrumented with monitoring systems and prepared for experimental activities on instability processes at a natural scale.
The visits will be alternated on site with frontal teaching lessons on specific topics developed within the scope of the project activities, such as, for example, the influence of climatic factors on the dynamics of instability processes, geophysical survey techniques in the marine environment, experimentation of sensor technologies for the detection of gravitational instability processes, application of numerical tools for scenario analysis.
The school is divided into two indivisible modules: the first, from 20 to 27 June 2025, includes the following stages: Turin, Bologna, Poppi (AR), Rome, Acuto (FR) and their respective surroundings; the second, from 7 to 13 July 2025, includes the following stages: Bari, Naples and Palermo and their respective surroundings. Each of the two modules includes the Roma Termini railway station as the place of departure and return.
The travel, food and accommodation of the participants, who will be selected from those who have submitted the application, will be entirely covered by the organization of the school, entrusted to Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Earth Sciences.
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