18 June 2025 | Landscape at Work – Public event with stakeholders
18 June 2025 | Landscape at Work – Public event with stakeholders
On June 18th, 2025, our Department held a special “Paesaggio at Work” (Landscape at Work) event for the Master’s program in Landscape Studies. The day began with an orientation session for students covering topics like choosing stages and internships.
The highlight was a panel discussion on career opportunities after graduating with a Landscape Sciences degree. Alumni speakers included environmental consultants, researchers, creative professionals and project managers, and tour guides who highlighted how their landscape studies training provided valuable skills for their professions.
Representatives from the Veneto Regional Planning Office and private engineering firm NET also weighed in on the demand for landscape experts in their fields. The event wrapped up with a networking aperitivo for students, faculty, and the attending professionals.
Overall, the “Paesaggio at Work” event gave incoming Landscape Sciences students an inside look at their program of study as well as the diverse career paths available to landscape graduates.
The Mobility Studies Podcast (2025-)
The Mobility Studies Podcast (2025-)
A project created by students of the English-taught Master’s degree programme in Mobility Studies at the Department of Historical and Geographic Sciences and the Ancient World, with the aim of discussing all things related to mobility as a concept and as a framework that shapes our approach to historical and other humanities-related research. It features contributions from professors as experts and guest speakers, as well as alumni eager to share their insights and experiences from the programme.
Learning by doing – The Mobility Studies Podcast is also one of the internship opportunities offered within the programme. It allows students to actively participate in the learning process: exploring academic topics and issues covered in the podcast more deeply while preparing interviews with professors and alumni, engaging in discussions, and independently structuring and organizing complex information into a format that is accessible to a broader audience.
Listen to the mobilitystudiespodcast on major platforms
https://linktr.ee/mobilitystudiespodcast
Instagram: themobilitystudiespodcast
The Roaming Agora | Student-led fanzine (2025-)
The Roaming Agora | Student-led fanzine (2025-)
The Roaming Agora is an initiative established by an international collective of students from the Mobility Studies program at the University of Padova brought together by a shared belief in the transformative power of critical discourse. The Roaming Agora was born out of a desire to create a space where ideas can move freely, across disciplines, languages, and identities.
The word fanzine comes from “fan magazine”, a form of independent, amateur publication rooted in creative freedom. Fanzines have long served as spaces for expression beyond institutional boundaries, offering room for ideas, critique, and collaboration.
In this vein, our students launched the initiative in June 2025 with the following invitation:
“We are a platform for open discourse, free from titles, hierarchy, or gatekeeping. Our aim is simple: to create a space where anyone can contribute, challenge, and think freely. Whether you want to reflect, explore, or connect, this is your place.
Turn your gaze to the occupied lands. Look at the hopes and longings scattered through cities, streets, and avenues. Witness the merging of defeats and triumphs, the dawn rising from sorrow. There, amid loss and meaninglessness, in the heart of grand chaos, you will see the flickering flames of struggle”
Curious about the published issues or interested in taking part? Know more here:
23 May 2025 | "Happy Birthday LD!" celebrates 15 years of success
23 May 2025 | "Happy Birthday LD!" celebrates 15 years of success
On May 23rd, we celebrated the 15th anniversary of our Local Development master’s programme with a special event titled “Happy Birthday Local Development!”.
The event was held in the hall of CUAMM (Doctors with Africa) in Padua, one of the most MA’s longest-standing stakeholders. Many guests attended to celebrate the programme’s achievements and evolution over the past 15 years, including Giovanni Putoto from CUAMM and Evelina Martelli from Comunità di Sant’Egidio.
The speakers underscored the importance of training professionals prepared to tackle the challenges of local development in an increasingly interconnected world.
Numerous alumni and partners of the programme attended to celebrate this milestone, reflecting on future years of commitment to local development with an awareness of the multifarious nuances and criticalities of the field.
It was also an occasion to thank all the past presidents of the Local Development programme (Professors Pierpaolo Faggi, Marina Bertoncin, Anna Giraldo), the current president Prof. Chiara Rabbiosi, as well as the faculty members (including Maria Castiglioni, Silvia Elena Piovan, Daria Quatrida, Irene Barbiera, Giorgio Osti, Alessio Surian among others) and the administrative staff (Edgar Serrano, Coralba Cappellato, Adriana Martin Garcia, Raffaella Masè, Eirini Koumparaki, Oscar Russo), who over the years have put endless energy, passion and expertise into carrying out this programme!
17 May 2025 | Jury at the Association for European Transport Hackathon
17 May 2025 | Jury at the Association for European Transport Hackathon
On Saturday, May 17, 2025, our MoHu director Tania Rossetto participated as a jury member in the 2025 Association for European Transport Hackathon, which was held at the Padua office of NET Engineering company, one of our intersectoral partners. The Hackathon, dedicated to the theme “Sustainable tourism challenges and strategies in Italy”, engaged MA and PhD students, including Billy Adi Pamungkas from our Local Development MA and Francesco Zuccolo, from our PhD program in Historical, Geographical, and Anthropological Studies, in two exciting days of creative discussion and exchange with experts on the topics of transportation, infrastructure, and alternative mobilities for tourists. Being part of the jury was a valuable opportunity to expand our center’s networking activity in the extra-academic field with leading actors of mobility transformations in Italy.
Research on the move | Bi-Lateral Workshop MoHu & EUI
Research on the move | Bi-Lateral Workshop MoHu & EUI
Overview
“Research on the Move. A Bi-lateral Workshop between Padua and Florence” is a project based on a series of seminars to be held at the European University Institute (EUI) – Department of History and Civilisation (HEC) on 30 April 2025 and in Padua at the Centre for Advanced Studies in Mobility & Humanities (MoHu) on 12 June 2025, organised by the Migration and Mobility Working Group of the European University Institute and the MA Programme in Mobility Studies of the University of Padova.
The event invites PhD students from the HEC department at the EUI, as well as advanced Masters students and PhD students from the MA Mobility Studies and PhD programme in Historical, Geographical and Anthropological Studies at the Universities of Padua and Venice Ca’ Foscari, to present and discuss their ongoing projects on various aspects of the history of mobility and migration. The workshop will provide advanced Masters students and PhD students with a forum for academic discussion and additional external feedback on their work. It will also provide an opportunity for networking between two leading research centres in the field of the history of mobility and for promoting the PhD programmes, in particular to Master’s students.
The project series
The project includes a series of events organised by the Migration and Mobility Working Group of the HEC Department and the MoHu in the first half of 2025:
(1) A lecture on 30 January 2025 by Paola Molino, Professor of Early Modern History and Coordinator of the MA in Mobility Studies.
(2) The official participation of two members of the working group in the Mobility Fest, where they presented the working group and promoted the EUI PhD programme (21 February 2025).
(3) Two workshops (30 April and 12 June 2025): During the workshops, panels are moderated by members of the working groups from the two institutions. Commentators provide feedback to stimulate discussion and intellectual exchange between participants.
Organisers
Anna Breidenbach (2nd Year)
Niklas Platzer (2nd Year)
Supported by Benno Gammerl, Paola Molino, Carlotta Sorba
Participants to the first workshop in Florence:
Anna Breidenbach (EUI), Daniele Cal (EUI), Emma dal Mas (EUI), Thays De Souza Ellero (Mobility Studies), Lydia Hendriksma (EUI), Aleksandr Lemeshinski (EUI), Alena Lesniak (Mobility Studies), Chukwudi Matthew Anuforo (Mobility Studies), Midya Navidi (Mobility Studies), Maria Pantazi (EUI), Niklas Platzer (EUI), Fabian Riesinger (EUI), Hasan Sezer (Mobility Studies), Ginevra Villani (PhD Padua-Venice), Mikhail Vsemirnov (PhD Padua-Venice).
