The tradition of the European Seminar on Geography of Water in Padova: Experiece in research and training

This work presents the experience of researchers and students from the University of Padova in the Intensive Program Erasmus of European Seminar on Water Geography. Since the Seminar originally began at the University of Padova (Pierpaolo Foggi as coordinator), a historical excursus of the Seminar, from its birth in 1994 to the last edition in Zadar on July 2013, is first provided. Each year as a tradition, PhD students and young researchers of the Department of Geography (from 1994 to 2010) and, later, the Geography Section of the Department of Historical, Geographical and Antiquity Sciences (DiSSGeA) (from 2011 to present) attended the Seminar, were involved in working group activities, and participated in the discussions of their research. Thus, a summary of the contributions by University of Padova participants is given with an examination of the changes in research themes during the Seminar history.