Faculty Members and Students of our University Participated in Project Meetings in Romania.
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Students and faculty members of the DD-Tech consortium, of which our university is one of the partners, participated in the pilot training program on digital diplomacy at the University of Bucharest, Romania within the scope of the Erasmus+ project “Digital Diplomacy: Building the Common Future with Techonology”.
Between 12 June – 16 June 2023, 36 students and faculty members of DD-Tech consortium participated in the study module on “Digital Diplomacy – Puzzles, Challenges and Trends” organized within the scope of the Erasmus+ project “Digital Diplomacy: Building the Common Future with Techonology”.
Head of the Department of Political Science and International Relations Assoc. Prof. Dr. Uğur Yasin ASAL, 6 undergraduate and graduate students of the Department, and Department of Economics (English) Faculty Member and Erasmus Coordinator Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ahmet Oğuz DEMİR participated in the program.
The module was hosted by the University of Bucharest and students from Romania (University of Bucharest), Estonia (University of Tartu), Italy (University of Sacred Heart Milan), Slovenia (University of Ljubljana) and Turkey (Istanbul University and Istanbul Commerce University) participated in an interactive training and gained hands-on experience in digital diplomacy.
The pilot program brought together faculty and students from the DD-Tech consortium to discuss challenges, opportunities and trends in the field of digital diplomacy. The training program provided an effective platform to share knowledge, methods and best practices on the intersection of technology and international relations.
Through a series of lectures and interactive sessions presented by the DD-Tech teaching consortium, the training program offered students the opportunity to engage in stimulating discussions on topics such as the foundations of diplomacy, the emergence of digital diplomacy, public diplomacy in the digital world, human rights diplomacy, and the impact of communication technology on digital diplomacy.
Within the framework of the training program, the students and faculty of the consortium also had the opportunity to visit the Romanian Parliament, the Diplomatic Institute of the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and attend a presentation by Prof. Corneliu Bjola from the Department of International Development, University of Oxford.
According to the main project manager of the DD-Tech consortium, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Özgün Erler Bayır, Faculty of Political Sciences, Istanbul University, “this pilot program provided the opportunity for our students to get the latest information on the latest trends in digital diplomacy and equipped them with useful knowledge on the subject. It also gave them the opportunity to engage directly with the international team of practitioners and diplomats participating in the program.”
For more information about the project and the training program, please visit the project website at https://www.digitaldiplomat.eu.
