IDC - Centre for International Cooperation and Development Studies

📣Bucharest, please make sure not to miss the pilot edition of the 𝐁𝐮𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐆𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨-𝐃𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐲 (𝐁𝐈𝐆-𝐃) 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭 that takes place between 17th-22nd June!
Part of the Festival's events is the BIG-D Movie night: Soul kitchen [Venice Special Jury Prize] taking place today, from 19.30 at Grădina ArtHub
The event will be introduced by Joachim UMLAUF, Director of Goethe-Institut Bucuresti
📽Click the event for details: https://fb.me/e/10B7dyec5

(𝐁𝐈𝐆-𝐃) 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭 aims to provide a platform for facilitating multicultural dialogue, multi-stakeholder networking and exploring sustainable practices in areas relevant for social, cultural, political, economic and/or environmental aspects of the production and consumption of “food” at large (including also drinks and water in particular, as well as information and information technology).

📍The Bucharest International Gastro-Diplomacy (BIG-D) is an initiative of de Stiinte Politice a Universitatii din Bucuresti (FSUB) through its IDC - Centre for International Cooperation and Development Studies in partnership with the
European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC)

More info about the BIG-D fest is available on 👇
https://idc.unibuc.ro/evenimente-events/2023-06-17-big-d-fest

își mărește echipa!

Posturi scoase la concurs:
👉 1 post de referent relații I în cadrul Serviciului implementare proiecte
👉 1 post de consilier relații I în cadrul Serviciului programe de cooperare internațională pentru dezvoltare
👉 1 post de consilier relații III în cadrul Serviciului programe de cooperare internațională pentru dezvoltare

Detalii: https://tinyurl.com/9sbd85kk

The European Investment Bank (EIB) - the "financial arm" of the European Union, in partnership with the Centre for International Cooperation and Development Studies (IDC) of the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Bucharest, organizes a special module on how the EIB functions, which is open for all MASTER students of the University of Bucharest, irrespective of the program of study.

The module has two in person sessions scheduled on the 24th and 31st of March 2023 at the headquarters of the Faculty of Political Science (8, Spiru Haret st.), and can offer those who enroll 3 ECTS credits.

The activities scheduled on the 24th of March include the launch of the competition for the EIB Summer School in Luxembourg in the presence of the school's organizers, who can answer questions received from those interested.

Advanced registration required.

Details and registration available at

European Investment Bank module >> OPORTUNITĂȚI DE FORMARE | TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES

Following the highly appreciated visit of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the head of the Belarus opposition, at the University of Bucharest, IDC - Centre for International Cooperation and Development Studies of the university's Faculty of Political Science (Facultatea de Stiinte Politice a Universitatii din Bucuresti (FSPUB)) organizes a special module dedicated to this country.

Offered by Andrej Kałłaur, a Belarussian researcher currently at the Masaryk University (Czech Republic) and community manager for Belarussian NGO “Honest People” (Poland), the module provides students an opportunity to explore the evolution of Belarus since its independence, as well as the theoretical and methodological backgrounds of the social, economic and political forces that are driving the changes brought by this evolution.

The module is free and open for audit to all students of the University of Bucharest.

Master students, CIVIS students, Erasmus+ students and all international exchange students, as well as students of the BA students of the English-language program International Relations and European Studies (IRES) can also take this module for 3 ECTS credits.

Advanced registration and more details at:

In focus - Belarus 2023 >> OPORTUNITĂȚI DE FORMARE | TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES

Proud to coordinate the Romanian leg of the European consortium that builds an exciting new international curriculum on digital diplomacy as an open educational resource. Here, our team, as guests at the University of Tartu, learning about e-learning and preparing audio-visual materials for the e-module that will be accessible to anyone interested from 2025 onwards.

[Last day to apply] At the 8th edition of SCOPE: Science of Politics - International Interdisciplinary Conference of Political Research (17-22 June 2023, University of Bucharest, Romania), FOOD (and drinks) take center stage as both a subject around which political research may be fruitfully focused and as facilitator of dialogue.

Climate change and the recent food crisis generated after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, brought the politics of food higher on the public agenda but, despite the urgency and the richness of the terrain, (political) research in the field is still scarce and / or little known for most of the larger academic community.

At the same time, such substantive issues cannot be fully grasped without addressing the contemporary dynamics of politics as food (for politicians, political researchers and other policy and political stakeholders) or without investigating their connection to democratization processes, human rights concerns, or their international impact and socio-economic implications.

These are the two major dimensions of reflection around which scholars across different disciplines are invited to submit papers, panels or round table proposals from various conceptual, empirical and methodological perspectives.

Marking the Sustainable Gastronomy Day, the 2023 edition also launches the Bucharest International Gastro-Diplomacy Fest, an event that brings together diplomats, scholars and hospitality industry experts with the aim of showcasing and discussing the latest trends in culinary diplomacy.

Like for all previous editions, with the support of of the Research Committee 33 (The Study of Political Science as a Discipline) of the International Political Science Association (IPSA), the conference includes a special section dedicated to debating current challenges in our discipline. In 2023, this section features roundtables on the level of precarity within the community of political researchers, on how to improve the welfare and safety of political scientists worldwide, as well as on the contemporary markets for political (research) expertise.

🔸 Call for Online Participants: The XV edition of the Black Sea NGO Forum, 21 - 22 November 2022

🆕The call for applications for the 15th edition of the Black Sea NGO Forum: The Black Sea Region under Pressure From Multiple Crisis to Sustainable and Democratic Development is now officially open!🙌

⏳You can submit your application until 14 November 2022, 12:00 PM, Bucharest time.

📸This year’s edition of the Forum will take place between the 21 – 22 of November 2022, in a Hybrid format.

The event is organized by the Romanian NGDO Platform – FOND, with the financial support of the European Commission.

For more updated information regarding this year’s edition of the Black Sea NGO Forum, we invite you to follow our website: https://bit.ly/3hmJI5u

*Eligible countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Greece, the Republic of Moldova, Romania, Turkey and Ukraine.

The application form can be accessed here: https://bit.ly/3FPV3VY

New within MIPA - Master in International Public Affairs for 2022/2023.

>> Special module, summer school and capstone projects in partnership with the European Investment Bank fully recognized as part of the curriculum

>> Special extensive course Civic technology: Citizen Experience Design for Public Services, organized with Code4Romania for all students of the program

>> Special modules for extra credits on Sport and human rights (with academics and professionals in the field, including current and former athletes), Culinary diplomacy (with diplomats and hospitality industry experts) and Contemporary Global Food Security Challenges (with diplomats, academics and other professionals in the field)

>> New team internship projects - Campus welfare: Green campus (in search of more environmentally friendly university campuses) & Campus welfare: Accessibility of student rights (making student rights more visible and accessible to students)

Among the very few of its kind in the world and unique in both Romania and the region, the program focuses on professional and individualized training, with about 80% of the instruction time allocated to seminars, policy workshops, internships, individual tutoring and professional mentoring.

The areas of interest and specialization for the practical part of the program focus largely on:

> DIPLOMACY track: public diplomacy, cultural diplomacy, digital diplomacy

> GLOBAL AFFAIRS track: sustainable development, humanitarian affairs

> EUROPEAN AFFAIRS track: European Union institutions and policies

> CIVIL SOCIETY track: international NGOs, social movements

> INDUSTRY track: public-private partnerships for creative industries, the social and environmental sustainability of companies

Instead of an MA thesis, at the end of the program students are required to defend publicly a capstone project (i.e. application of the knowledge and skills acquired throughout the program to examine or evaluate a specific real life problem).

Summary of the admission procedures and FAQ available at
https://idc.fspub.unibuc.ro/mipa/Admission2022