MA in Digital Transformation

e-Diplomacy | e-Campaigning | Digital Law

Applications for 2023-24, will run between
28/04 - 10/07

(early birds before 12/06/23)

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
MA in Digital Transformation: e-Diplomacy, e-Campaigning and Digital Law (Digi-DCL) is a full-time program of three semesters and 90 ECTS, 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, online, and face-to-face, 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.Except for two in situ events (the Bootcamp and the Hackathon), which will take place in Athens or in other locations in Greece, the core of teaching and mentoring will be held at a distance, in order to encourage and enhance as diversified participation as possible.Online lectures are to be held four afternoons during weekdays, typically between 17.00-21.00 ΕΕΤ.

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. A pilot boocamp has been tested in October 2022.

Program
1st semester
2nd semester
Students chose one of the three Specializations.
The semester ends with a Hackathon with the participation of all students
3rd semester
Team
  • Vassilis Hatzopoulos
    MA Director
    Digital Law Specialization Coordinator
    Professor of EU Law and Policies at the Department of International, European and Area Studies of Panteion University and at the College of Europe, Bruges.
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  • Betty Tsakarestou
    MA Associate Director
    e-Campaigning Specialization Co-Coordinator
    Associate 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.
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  • Maria Daniella Marouda
    e-Diplomacy Specialization Coordinator
    Jean Monnet Chair, Assistant 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
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  • Pantelis Vatikiotis
    Assistant Professor
    e-Campaigning Specialization Co-Coordinator
    at the Department of Communication, Media and Culture and Director of Journalism Lab (J-Lab), Panteion University.
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  • Stavros Kaperonis
    Assistant Professor Panteion University | Adjunct Assistant Professor AUEB | UX/CX expert
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  • Vasilis Roungas
    Visiting Professor at the Department of Communication, Media and Culture | Panteion University
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  • Dr. Nikos Daskalakis
    Dr. Nikos Daskalakis is Assistant Professor in Finance and Accounting in the Department of Public Administration of Panteion University.
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  • Kostas Karpouzis
    Assistant Professor
    at the Department of Communication, Media and Culture of the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences. In my research, I'm looking for ways to make computer systems more aware of and responsive to the way people interact with each other using natural, affective interaction and fair, intelligent, user-adaptive algorithms. I'm an advocate for technology and CS in schools, a TED-ed educator, and a 3x TEDx Speaker.
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  • George Anepsiou
    PhD in International Law, Panteion University of Athens | LLM from Hull University Law School, UK
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  • Leonidas Archontakis
    Social Media Content Creator
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  • Dora Apostolopoulou
    MA Executive Officer
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Partners
Academic
  • Eylem Yanardağoğlu
    Associate Professor, New Media Dept. | Kadir Has University, Istanbul-TURKEY
  • Anne-Lise Sibony
    Professor of European Law at the UCLouvain (Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium) | Guest professor at KULeuven (Leuven, Belgium)
  • Eleftheria J. Lekakis
    Senior Lecturer, School of Media, Arts and Humanities, University of Sussex
  • Dr Maria Ioannidou
    Senior Lecturer in competition law at the School of Law, Queen Mary, University of London
  • Vasiliki Karageorgou
    Associate Professor in European Administrative and European Environmental Law, Department of International, European and Area Studies, Panteion University
  • Nicholas Tsagourias
    Professor of International Law, University of Sheffield
  • Evangelia Psychogiopoulou
    Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations of the University of Peloponnese
  • George Pagoulatos
    Professor @AUEB & Director General at Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP)
  • Zefi Dimadama
    Laboratory Teaching Staff and Senior Research Fellow of Department of International, European & Area Studies Panteion University
  • Charalampos Platias
    Assistant Professor at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences
  • Georgios Dimitropoulos
    Associate Professor of Law at Hamad Bin Khalifa University Law
  • Anastasia Veneti
    Associate Professor in Political Communication, Bournemouth University
  • Μatina Magkou
    Post-doc researcher, SIC.Lab Méditerranée, University Côte d’Azur. Independent consultant and researcher/ cultural and creative industries and cultural policies.
Guest Experts
  • Alexandros Nousias
    AI Law & Ethics at NCSR "DEMOKRITOS", LLM
  • Dimitris Serafis
    SNSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  • Yannos Paramythiotis
    IP Lawyer | Adjunct Lecturer in Law
  • Konstantinos Ioannidis
    Head of East Europe, Consumer Insights & Analytics at Philip Morris International
  • Paris Chrysos
    Paris Chrysos is a Policy Analyst at the National Documentation Center, focusing on Digital Transformation.
  • Thalis Laspias
    Senior Strategic Designer at Hellas Direct
Institutional
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.

e-campaigning path will prepare students for roles such as:

  • Campaigns manager
  • Head of communications
  • Lead advisor
  • Crisis manager
  • PR and communications officer
  • Media professionals

e-diplomacy path will prepare students for roles such as:

  • Practicing diplomats, civil servants and others working in international law and international relations
  • Students of diplomacy, international law, or international relations
  • Students, practitioners, journalists, staff of international european and non-governmental organisations, business people and others who interact with diplomats.

digital law path will prepare students for roles such as:

  • Lawyers, Legal advisors / Counsels specializing in digital law and technology
  • Digital transformation in Public Administration (national level-Ministries, local level-municipalities)
  • Multilateral diplomacy (staff in digital transformation strategies forIO, such as the UN, EU, CoE, OSCE, NATO, AU, ASEANetc)
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.

News
Applications 2023-24
Applications for 2023-24, will run between
28/04 - 10/07
(early birds before 12/06/23)
Memorandum of Cooperation between
ELIAMEP & Panteion University
On 6 April 2023, the Panteion University signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Hellenic Foundation for European and FOreign POlicy (ELIAMEP). The Memorandum was signed by the Director General of ELIAMEP, Professor George Pagoulatos, and the Rector of Panteion University, Professor Christina Koulouri. The main objectives of the Memorandum of Understanding are: jointly promoting educational, research, scientific and administrative cooperation; extending both institutions’ outreach activities both in Greece and abroad; raising the profile of ELIAMEP and Panteion University, facilitating the networking and exchange of teachers and researchers; and providing internships for students from the University in research and/or executive positions at ELIAMEP. The above aims are going to be pursued primarily in relation to Panteion's MA in Digital Transformation: Diplomacy, Campaigning and Law (MADigiDCL). Professor Vassilis Hatzopoulos, Director of Panteion's MADigiDCL and Research Fellow at ELIAMEP, was present at the signing of the Memorandum.
Bootcamp Kick off Event 2022
November, 17 - 20, Koryshades, Evritania
MA DigiDCL proudly and successfully organized a prototype Kickoff Bootcamp (17-20 November, Koryschades, Evritania) with the participation of 15 professors/academic partners and stakeholders, together with 20 postgraduate students. The participants engaged in a co-creative test-event for the launching of the new, international, interdisciplinary postgraduate program in Digital Transformation: e-Diplomacy, e-Campaigning and Digital Law (DigiDCL).
The Bootcamp participants were presented with the proposed outline for the postgraduate program. Through presentations, talks and exchanges and through innovative research methods based on design-thinking, they identified the topics, challenges, and research tools through which to approach digital transformation. Participants’ hands-on experience in understanding digital social worlds, practices and relationships enriched the postgraduate program’s pathways with new thematic areas and methodologies, while their feedback highlighted further educational and research priorities-activities.
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Resources
Venues
Bootcamp Kick off Event 2022
November, 17 - 20, Koryshades, Evritania
Meet Panteion University

Contact us

digi-dcl@panteion.gr
3-5 Hill Street, 105 58, Athens - Plaka
Athens-Greece

© 2023 MA DigiDCL. Developed by Stavros Kaperonis

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.
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).
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
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.
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.