Doctoral Colloquium in Risk Analytics at Collegio Internazionale Ca' Foscari of Venice

Collegio Internazionale Ca’ Foscari (CICF) is offering 20 fellowship to doctoral students for attending the second session of the Doctoral Colloquium in Risk Analytics

Aims and scope

The Colloquium caters to Doctoral students interested in analytical (both theoretical and applied) methods for measuring, managing and mitigating risks. It is organized over four two-week sessions along one year. The risks considered range from standard economic, financial or insurance applications, to emerging ones, such as environmental, climate and cyber risks. The approach is in-depth and multidisciplinary, with lectures, assignments and discussion of the results. Outstanding international scholars with long-standing PhD teaching and supervision experience deliver the courses.

Target

We seek PhD students from Italian or Foreign Universities, who remain affiliated with their Doctoral School. Students may apply for one session at a time, but must attend the whole session. They may get credit for the courses taken within the Colloquium. There are no participation fees; travel and accommodation are covered by the Colloquium.

Up to five additional participants, including further Doctoral Students, Postdocs, Junior Faculty, or PhDs working in the industry, may be admitted at their own travel and accommodation expenses.

Content

The first session was in January 2025. Three more two-weeks sessions are coming up:

2. July, 26 - August, 9, 2025, New challenges on long-run risks

• Week 1: Max Croce, U. Bocconi, Macro FinTech
• Week 2: Fabio Trojani, U. Geneva, Swiss Finance Institute and U. Torino, Model free pricing and estimation of financial risks 

3. September, 14 - 27, 2025, AI for Risk

• Week 1: Stefano Favaro, U. Torino and CCA, Predictive uncertainty in Machine Learning with conformal inference

• Week 2: Christa Cuchiero, U. Vienna, Concepts of Deep Learning and Applications to Finance and Risk Management

   

4. January, 18 - 31, 2026, Networks and risk propagation

• Week 1: Remco Hofstad, Eindhoven U. of Technology, Random Graphs and Complex Networks: Structure and Function
• Week 2: Alireza Tazbah-Salehi, Northwestern University, Production Networks

Where

• San Servolo Island, Venice (Session 2 and 4):

  https://servizimetropolitani.ve.it/en/san-servolo-island/where-we-are

   

• Camplus Venezia Santa Marta, Venice (Session 3).

  https://www.camplus.it/citta/venezia/camplus-santa-marta 

We offer

• an outstanding Faculty of leading researchers;
• work in a team with several, multidisciplinary doctoral candidates;
• no tuition fees, with
  • free accommodation on the San Servolo/Santa Marta  campus;
  • travel expenses reimbursed (up to 200 euro).

Each session includes two courses. Each course is delivered over 20 hours over one week, combining frontal teaching, office hours/discussions, assignments and presentation of research by the students.

Applications

Students can apply for the July-August session through the site

https://landing.cafoscarichallengeschool.it/docra/

Acceptance of qualified applicants will be done on a first-in basis.

Applications for the third and fourth session will open one week after the end of the previous session.

More Information

For more information, please visit https://landing.cafosca\richallengeschool.it/docra/

or get in touch through colloquia.cicf@unive.it. We’ll be happy to organize a zoom session.

DoCRA is a joint initiative of  CICF (team leader), IUSS Pavia, IMT Lucca, SISSA Trieste, Scuola di Studi Superiori Carlo Urbani in Camerino, Scuola di Studi Superiori Giacomo Leopardi in Macerata, Scuola Superiore F. Rossi in Torino, Scuola Superiore Universitario Di Toppo Wassermann in Udine.

The event is organised within the framework of the Project  "Educating Future Citizens" funded by Ministerial Decree 291/2024 - National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR), Mission 4 Education and Research, Component 1, Investment 3.4 ‘Advanced University Teaching and Skills’; CUP H77624000190007

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