IR Department Holds Videoconference with EU Partner University

On May 2, Bilkent\'s Department of International Relations held a videoconference with Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Part of the \"Digital Lectures Series\" that the two universities have been running since last year, the videoconference was supervised by Asst. Prof. Dimitris Tsarouhas, who is also the project coordinator on behalf of the IR department. The project brings together students and staff in order to promote information exchange and cooperation between Bilkent and Maastri...Read More

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Teaching Staff Mobility: The IR Experience

While most Bilkenters are likely to know at least something about the EU-sponsored ERASMUS Programme as it concerns student exchange, there seems to be less widespread knowledge about the ERASMUS component called Teaching Staff Mobility (TSM). In short, the latter is a system of teacher exchange, whereby a faculty member spends one week and teaches minimum five hours at a partner university. Agreements regarding TSM are often internal to more comprehensive ERASMUS exchange agreements among part...Read More

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EU Official from Brussels Meets with MIAPP EU Diplomacy Students

Heike Gerstbrein, an EU official from the EU Commission-Turkey Team/Political Desk in Brussels, visited Bilkent University and had a meeting with IR-MIAPP (Master of International Affairs and Public Policy) students on Friday, April 20. Ms. Gerstbrein was invited by instructor Yeter Yaman as part of the MIAPP program on EU Diplomacy.
Introducing the speaker, Ms. Yaman made reference to the most recent Transatlantic Trends survey published by the German Marshall Fund, in which only 48 perc...Read More

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