MA
in Digital Transformation
in Digital Transformation
e-Diplomacy, e-Campaigning and Digital Law
a hybrid MA program
a hybrid MA program
17-20 November 2022
Summary
MA in Digital Transformation: e-Diplomacy, e-Campaigning and Digital Law (Digi-DCL) is an innovative, interdisciplinary international postgraduate program, exclusively in English language, offering an intellectual stimulating action learning journey, reflecting, and experimenting with possible future scenarios and impact solutions to immersive web3 and 4th industrial revolution, cultivating curiosity and creative thinking in addressing real world challenges. The program is aimed at graduates and professionals with experience or interest in the design and implementation of public policies with an emphasis on digital transformation and digital innovation, entrepreneurship and social innovation with a positive impact, digital communication and campaigning, international relations, diplomacy, advocacy institutions and NGOs. The program is organized by the school of International Studies and Culture of Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences.
Structure
The program develops in 3 semesters, a dynamic interplay between theoretical teaching and empirical study, interactive co-creation and innovation workshops. The courses are designed in a multi-modular mode, through technical and digital blended learning tools, combining cutting-edge research and theoretical thinking, and it involves participants in real-world problems (challenge-based learning / learning by doing) and in co-designing solutions with a positive impact (design sprints).
Hybrid
MA DigiDCL is a hybrid program, face-to-face, hybrid, and online, designed to offer flexibility and accessibility to both graduates local and international students, faculty, and guest expert speakers and an opportunity to cater to diverse life-professional schedules, while enabling all participants to advance academically, professionally, engaging and networking with leading academics and professionals from different fields and geographies.
Bootcamp
MA DigiDCL offers a face-to-face, Kickoff Bootcamp organized every year in one of the most welcoming and famous Greek destinations, combining jumpstart team building activities, cultural and nature discovery experiences with a co-creative program, engaging all participants, faculty, and guest speakers into teamwork, igniting talks, exploring and reflecting on the digital -virtual landscape and its various transformations and challenges. During the Bootcamp, the participants will get a first deep dive into innovative research methods and get a first hands-on experience on how to explore and understand our ever-evolving digital social worlds, practices, and relationships.
Structure
The program develops in 3 semesters, a dynamic interplay between theoretical teaching and empirical study, interactive co-creation and innovation workshops. The courses are designed in a multi-modular mode, through technical and digital blended learning tools, combining cutting-edge research and theoretical thinking, and it involves participants in real-world problems (challenge-based learning / learning by doing) and in co-designing solutions with a positive impact (design sprints).
Hybrid
MA DigiDCL is a hybrid program, face-to-face, hybrid, and online, designed to offer flexibility and accessibility to both graduates local and international students, faculty, and guest expert speakers and an opportunity to cater to diverse life-professional schedules, while enabling all participants to advance academically, professionally, engaging and networking with leading academics and professionals from different fields and geographies.
Bootcamp
MA DigiDCL offers a face-to-face, Kickoff Bootcamp organized every year in one of the most welcoming and famous Greek destinations, combining jumpstart team building activities, cultural and nature discovery experiences with a co-creative program, engaging all participants, faculty, and guest speakers into teamwork, igniting talks, exploring and reflecting on the digital -virtual landscape and its various transformations and challenges. During the Bootcamp, the participants will get a first deep dive into innovative research methods and get a first hands-on experience on how to explore and understand our ever-evolving digital social worlds, practices, and relationships.
Core 1st semester
The program welcomes students to a summer research bootcamp and continues by introducing them to the topics of digital innovation, algorithmic thinking and the dilemmas that arise for governance, economics, communication, law, and citizenship.
Digital Innovation Era: Algorithmic Disruptions- Governance & Citizenship Transformations
Courses
1. Bootcamp: Intro to the digital era and research methods
a. Challenges in the digital era; b. Digital media as a tool; c. Researching: digital social worlds, practices, events, relationships, experiences
2. Digital society and network citizenship
a. Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence and the shaping of the social; b. Datafication: Data Collection, protection, privacy and fairness; c. Converged publics and intercultural society
3. Governance of cyberspace – self regulation and reputation management
a. Cyber security addressing cyber vulnerability; b. Internet governance; c. AI and regional cooperation
4. Economy 4.0
a. Political economy of the web; b. Startup economy (incubators, accelerators, VCs); c. Digital market (bitcoin, Airbnb), and digital labor
5. Digital transformation in public administration and public policy
a Digital state: inclusion, participation democracy and accountability; b Digital public service: effectiveness and fairness; c Policy design at the digital era.
Pathways (2nd semester)
Α Students chose on of the three pathways:
a) e-diplomacy, b) e-campaigning; c) digital law.
The program welcomes students to a summer research bootcamp and continues by introducing them to the topics of digital innovation, algorithmic thinking and the dilemmas that arise for governance, economics, communication, law, and citizenship.
Digital Innovation Era: Algorithmic Disruptions- Governance & Citizenship Transformations
Courses
1. Bootcamp: Intro to the digital era and research methods
a. Challenges in the digital era; b. Digital media as a tool; c. Researching: digital social worlds, practices, events, relationships, experiences
2. Digital society and network citizenship
a. Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence and the shaping of the social; b. Datafication: Data Collection, protection, privacy and fairness; c. Converged publics and intercultural society
3. Governance of cyberspace – self regulation and reputation management
a. Cyber security addressing cyber vulnerability; b. Internet governance; c. AI and regional cooperation
4. Economy 4.0
a. Political economy of the web; b. Startup economy (incubators, accelerators, VCs); c. Digital market (bitcoin, Airbnb), and digital labor
5. Digital transformation in public administration and public policy
a Digital state: inclusion, participation democracy and accountability; b Digital public service: effectiveness and fairness; c Policy design at the digital era.
Pathways (2nd semester)
Α Students chose on of the three pathways:
a) e-diplomacy, b) e-campaigning; c) digital law.
Courses
1. Crisis, conflict, networking and public interest
a. Geopolitical crisis scenarios, crisis management and conflict resolution; b. Mediation and Artificial Intelligence; c. Peace and cultural journalism and serious games in peace-making, open-source diplomatic journalism
2. Digital innovation agenda for public and algorithmic diplomacy
a. Digital preparedness, disruptions and resilient institutions, emerging tech policy; b. Multilateralism and cross-border governance of technology; c. Data and algorithmic a diplomacy and international actors: new data as a force of innovation from scarcity to abundance in diplomacy; d. Data and the shifting of geopolitical power dynamics for actors collecting - storing - controlling data
3. DigiDiplo in action: Engagement and impact
a. Entrepreneurial cultural educational cities digital diplomacy; b. Think tanks in the era of digital disruption; c. The digital diplomat as a storyteller. Telling data-led complex stories
Diplo-Hackathon (An outreach initiative)
Prototype Digital Diplo Solutions
4. Global trade and new organizational ecologies for digital services
a. EU internal market in services; b. GATS and other PTAs for digital services; c. Global fora for digital transformation
1. Crisis, conflict, networking and public interest
a. Geopolitical crisis scenarios, crisis management and conflict resolution; b. Mediation and Artificial Intelligence; c. Peace and cultural journalism and serious games in peace-making, open-source diplomatic journalism
2. Digital innovation agenda for public and algorithmic diplomacy
a. Digital preparedness, disruptions and resilient institutions, emerging tech policy; b. Multilateralism and cross-border governance of technology; c. Data and algorithmic a diplomacy and international actors: new data as a force of innovation from scarcity to abundance in diplomacy; d. Data and the shifting of geopolitical power dynamics for actors collecting - storing - controlling data
3. DigiDiplo in action: Engagement and impact
a. Entrepreneurial cultural educational cities digital diplomacy; b. Think tanks in the era of digital disruption; c. The digital diplomat as a storyteller. Telling data-led complex stories
Diplo-Hackathon (An outreach initiative)
Prototype Digital Diplo Solutions
4. Global trade and new organizational ecologies for digital services
a. EU internal market in services; b. GATS and other PTAs for digital services; c. Global fora for digital transformation
Courses
1. e-politics
a. Political communication, digital campaigns and elections; b. Social media and political participation; c. Critical issues : computational propaganda, mis/dis/mal- information, filter bubbles, echo chambers
2. Advocacy and social change
a. Civil society and networked public spheres; b. Humanitarian, climate change; c. Alternative digital media and activism
3. Digital strategic design communications
a Communication strategy; b. Digital engagement; c. Prototyping
4. Crisis, conflict, networking and public interest
a. Geopolitical crisis scenarios, crisis management and conflict resolution; b. Mediation and Artificial Intelligence; c. Peace and cultural journalism and serious games in peace-making, open-source diplomatic journalism
1. e-politics
a. Political communication, digital campaigns and elections; b. Social media and political participation; c. Critical issues : computational propaganda, mis/dis/mal- information, filter bubbles, echo chambers
2. Advocacy and social change
a. Civil society and networked public spheres; b. Humanitarian, climate change; c. Alternative digital media and activism
3. Digital strategic design communications
a Communication strategy; b. Digital engagement; c. Prototyping
4. Crisis, conflict, networking and public interest
a. Geopolitical crisis scenarios, crisis management and conflict resolution; b. Mediation and Artificial Intelligence; c. Peace and cultural journalism and serious games in peace-making, open-source diplomatic journalism
Courses
1. Global trade and new organizational ecologies for digital services
a. EU internal market in services; b. GATS and other PTAs for digital services; c. Global fora for digital transformation
2. Competition law and policy in the digital economy – Intellectual property
rights in the digital era
a. General competition law and policy issues; b. Competition in platform-based ecosystems; c. IPR Protection vs Innovation
3. Digital law addressing sustainable development goals
a. Consumer protection; b. Worker protection in the digital era; c. Climate Change Law
4. Cybercrime and cybersecurity
a. Cybercrime; b. Use of force in cyberspace; c. Cybersecurity and human rights
1. Global trade and new organizational ecologies for digital services
a. EU internal market in services; b. GATS and other PTAs for digital services; c. Global fora for digital transformation
2. Competition law and policy in the digital economy – Intellectual property
rights in the digital era
a. General competition law and policy issues; b. Competition in platform-based ecosystems; c. IPR Protection vs Innovation
3. Digital law addressing sustainable development goals
a. Consumer protection; b. Worker protection in the digital era; c. Climate Change Law
4. Cybercrime and cybersecurity
a. Cybercrime; b. Use of force in cyberspace; c. Cybersecurity and human rights
Students could complete the program by writing a research dissertation, or a professional practice project, which can be work-based along with one of the collaborating public or private bodies and third parties.
Find the prospectus here
BOOTCAMP KICK OFF EVENT 2022
November, 17 - 20
Location: Koryshades, Evritania
Venue: Kyklamino Hotel
MA DigiDCL offers a face-to-face, Kickoff Bootcamp organized every year in one of the most welcoming and famous Greek destinations, combining jumpstart team building activities, cultural and nature discovery experiences with a co-creative program, engaging all participants, faculty, and guest speakers into teamwork, igniting talks, exploring and reflecting on the digital -virtual landscape and its various transformations and challenges. During the Bootcamp, the participants will get a first deep dive into innovative research methods and get a first hands-on experience on how to explore and understand our ever-evolving digital social worlds, practices, and relationships.Simplicity is not the absence of clutter; that's a consequence of simplicity. Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product.
November, 17 - 20
Location: Koryshades, Evritania
Venue: Kyklamino Hotel
MA DigiDCL offers a face-to-face, Kickoff Bootcamp organized every year in one of the most welcoming and famous Greek destinations, combining jumpstart team building activities, cultural and nature discovery experiences with a co-creative program, engaging all participants, faculty, and guest speakers into teamwork, igniting talks, exploring and reflecting on the digital -virtual landscape and its various transformations and challenges. During the Bootcamp, the participants will get a first deep dive into innovative research methods and get a first hands-on experience on how to explore and understand our ever-evolving digital social worlds, practices, and relationships.Simplicity is not the absence of clutter; that's a consequence of simplicity. Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product.
20:30-21:00
Participants arrival & working dinner
Games
Participants arrival & working dinner
Games
10:00-13:00
Mountain bike-Archery-Trecking
13.00-14.30
lunch
15:00-16:00
World Café: The Big Questions
World Café: Setting the Common Ground- Building Empathy
World Café Teams change tables: Broadening our perspectives
Storytelling-Pitching closing event
20:00
Dinner
Mountain bike-Archery-Trecking
13.00-14.30
lunch
15:00-16:00
- Setting the Stage: Digital Transformations
- Ignite Talk 1: Eylem Yanardağoğlu, "Digital Citizenship" (Associate Professor, New Media Dept., Kadir Has University, Istanbul-TURKEY)
- Ignite Talk 2: Yiannos Paramiothiotis, "Digital Transformation in Europe" (IP Lawyer | Postdoctoral Researcher | Adjunct Lecturer in Law)
World Café: The Big Questions
- Shaping the Conversation on Digital Transformation: The 5 Big Why’s
- Going deep into current framing of challenges - discovering opportunities
- Teams Formation in 3 conversation clusters & exploring on 3 Big Challenges
- Digital Transformations in Campaigning
- Digital Transformations in Diplomacy
- Digital Transformations in Law
World Café: Setting the Common Ground- Building Empathy
- Teams change tables- join their new host and challenge
- Provide context on challenge area- find common ground
- Re-define the challenges
- Explore possible responses/ solutions
World Café Teams change tables: Broadening our perspectives
- Harvesting and discovering novel ideas, shared solutions,
- Co-design an infographic and share collective discoveries and insights
- Asking new questions
- Map areas of collaboration
Storytelling-Pitching closing event
20:00
Dinner
09:30-11:00
Co.Design and Testing the Learning Journey of MA DigiDCL | Design Thinking Workshop: The User-Centric approach- Design Thinking Workshop
Hiking: A Fresh and Healthy Creativity and Decision-Making Booster
or Speed Dating (depending on weather)
Co.Design the Research and Real World Implementations Priorities | Design Thinking Workshop: The User-Centric-Multi-Stakeholders approach
Free time
21:30
Gaming
Co.Design and Testing the Learning Journey of MA DigiDCL | Design Thinking Workshop: The User-Centric approach- Design Thinking Workshop
- Engaging guest speakers, scholars, stakeholders, and students into co-creating and optimizing the learning journey or DigiDCL
- Co-design an infographic and share collective outcomes and insights
Hiking: A Fresh and Healthy Creativity and Decision-Making Booster
or Speed Dating (depending on weather)
- Thinking, Talking Walking the new ideas together & Walking Thought Leadership and Problem Solving
- pic nick or lunch
Co.Design the Research and Real World Implementations Priorities | Design Thinking Workshop: The User-Centric-Multi-Stakeholders approach
- Co-design an infographic and share collective outcomes and insights
- Closing creative activity
Free time
21:30
Gaming
09:00-10:30
Working Breakfast-Reflections on the Bootcamp experience and actionable steps
11:00
Excursion in the nearby beauties | Proussos Monastery
14:00
On the road again, back to Athens
Working Breakfast-Reflections on the Bootcamp experience and actionable steps
11:00
Excursion in the nearby beauties | Proussos Monastery
14:00
On the road again, back to Athens
Team
- Vassilis HatzopoulosProfessor of EU Law and Policies at the Department of International, European and Area Studies of Panteion University and at the College of Europe, Bruges.
LinkedIn - Betty TsakarestouAssociate Professor in Advertising and PR and Director of ADandPRLAB at the Department of Communication, Media and Culture of Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences. Branding Chair and Research Liaison at International Communication Division of AEJMC, V-P, Global Media Education Council.
twitter | LinkedIn - Maria Daniella MaroudaJean Monnet Chair, Ass.Professor in International Law/ Humanitarian Law, Panteion University
Chair, European Commission against Racism and Intolerance, ECRI, Council of Europe (Strasbourg)
Director, European Training and Research Center on Human rights and Humanitarian Action, Panteion University
twitter | Linkedin - Stavros Kaperonis
- Vasilis RoungasAssistant Professor
at the Department of Communication, Media and Culture | Panteion University
LinkedIn
Partners
Academic
Eylem YanardağoğluAssociate Professor, New Media Dept. | Kadir Has University, Istanbul-TURKEY
Anne-Lise SibonyProfessor of European Law at the UCLouvain (Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium) | Guest professor at KULeuven (Leuven, Belgium)
Institutional
TBA
TBA
Guest Experts
TBA
TBA
Careers
Prospects
The program is particularly relevant if you pursue a career as leader and pioneer of digital transformation in the public and private sectors, in the fields of entrepreneurship, communications and public affairs agencies, non-governmental organizations, diplomatic sector, think tanks. It could be also a milestone towards a research and an academic career in these dynamic areas of study.
Collaborations
The program integrates a wide Greek and international network of long-term collaborations with public bodies and business innovation organizations (incubators, accelerators), organizing co-creation workshops, bootcamps and hackathons, which promote the development by students of digital solutions and assets to be applied in the public and private business, in international relations and the field of public diplomacy as well as in the field of communication and campaigning.
Applications
Please follow the link to read more.
1.Diploma Requirements
The following diploma requirements apply for this programme:
- Bachelor degree (minimum 3 years)
- Evidence of excellent academic performance.
2.Language requirements
Proven English language proficiency, demonstrated by way of a TOEFL test (overall score of 100 Internet-based), or IELTS test (overall score of 7.0 - academic module only), Cambridge English Proficiency certificate (CPE). Other tests will be individually considered by the selection committee.
- English tests may not be more than ten years old.
- If your test results are slightly below the required standards an online interview may be granted to you by the selection committee.
- You may be exempted from the requirement of proving your English language skills
- if you have a diploma from an International Baccalaureate® (IB) Diploma Programme (DP) taught in English or with English A HL.
- You completed your secondary or higher education in the USA, the UK, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, Canada (except French-taught programmes in Canada) Singapore, South-Africa or Malta*.
- You completed an English-spoken program of higher education in any other country
* This includes diplomas that are issued by schools/institutions from the above-mentioned countries that are located abroad but are accredited as part of the education system in these countries.
3.Required application documents
You’ll need to submit all the documents listed in the application form.
Some explanations follow:
The following diploma requirements apply for this programme:
- Bachelor degree (minimum 3 years)
- Evidence of excellent academic performance.
2.Language requirements
Proven English language proficiency, demonstrated by way of a TOEFL test (overall score of 100 Internet-based), or IELTS test (overall score of 7.0 - academic module only), Cambridge English Proficiency certificate (CPE). Other tests will be individually considered by the selection committee.
- English tests may not be more than ten years old.
- If your test results are slightly below the required standards an online interview may be granted to you by the selection committee.
- You may be exempted from the requirement of proving your English language skills
- if you have a diploma from an International Baccalaureate® (IB) Diploma Programme (DP) taught in English or with English A HL.
- You completed your secondary or higher education in the USA, the UK, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, Canada (except French-taught programmes in Canada) Singapore, South-Africa or Malta*.
- You completed an English-spoken program of higher education in any other country
* This includes diplomas that are issued by schools/institutions from the above-mentioned countries that are located abroad but are accredited as part of the education system in these countries.
3.Required application documents
You’ll need to submit all the documents listed in the application form.
Some explanations follow:
- CV (resume): Your CV (curriculum vitae) must be written in English and should contain your basic personal data, as well as a clear overview of your educational and professional history to date.
- Language Proficiency: You can apply for admission before receiving the results of your English language test.
- Reference letters: Please submit two letters of recommendation attesting to your skills, qualities and competencies. At least one letter must be written by an academic staff member, for example a lecturer or academic supervisor.
- Other documents: Documents should be submitted in their original language. If this is not English, French, German or Greek, they should be accompanied by an official translation in one of the above languages.
- Sufficient academic background in any of the areas of communication, politics, diplomacy, law and digital technologies.
- A keen interest in the field of digital technologies, diplomacy, law, advocacy, duly presented in a motivation letter.
- Documented evidence of relevant (work) experience, i.e. employment or internship, or voluntary work, illustrated by way of a detailed curriculum vitae.
- Proven international experience and command of other foreign languages, as well as a graduate degree previously obtained in any of the areas of communication, politics, diplomacy, law and digital technologies will be a plus.
Your tuition fee depends on a number of factors, such as your nationality and your previous higher-education qualifications.
The tuition fees for all students Greek and EU /EEA students for the academic year 2022-2023 (3 semesters) are: € 2,500
For non-EU citizens tuition fees are: € 5,000
The tuition fees for all students Greek and EU /EEA students for the academic year 2022-2023 (3 semesters) are: € 2,500
For non-EU citizens tuition fees are: € 5,000
Up to 30 percent of our students may have their fees waved, on the basis of social and performance criteria as described in Article 86 of Law 4957/2022 on Higher Education. This means that they should have (at least) a second-class distinction in their previous degree and qualify, under their respective social legislation, for receiving educational benefits.
Other students may have their fees taken in charge by their employers, by MA DigiDCL partners or other sponsors on a case-by-case basis.
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Empowerment Fund (EF) to enable students to realise their ambitions by creating an academic environment with equal opportunities for all.
Other students may have their fees taken in charge by their employers, by MA DigiDCL partners or other sponsors on a case-by-case basis.
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Empowerment Fund (EF) to enable students to realise their ambitions by creating an academic environment with equal opportunities for all.
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