Study Mission Istanbul

The WiP – Study Mission project will help students to understand the importance of a strategic partnership between Europe and Turkey and will orient participants to elaborate analysis on controversial topics: migrations, terrorism, climate change, financial crisis.

The stay in Istanbul will also be a unique opportunity to interact with Turkey’s ruling class.

By the end of the program, students will have gained a deeper understanding of a key candidate country and of the mechanisms of partnership with Europe.

The goal of the project is to allow participants to open their minds and leave the pre-existing narrative behind. We will try to understand what obstacles hinder the EU accession process and what are the future prospects, in light of the recent isolationist and populist tendencies, that seem to have taken hold all over the world, from the United States to Europe.

Participants will also have the opportunity to discover in practice how dialogue and collaboration constitute always an asset: the extraordinary economic and commercial partnership between Turkey and EU make this relationship inevitable and – you will realize – even indispensable.

The structure of the WiP – Study Mission is divided in three parts:

•  a webinar course held by experts, specialized in Turkish history, organized in 4 lessons;
•  Istanbul, 7 days of meetings with Institutions, diplomats, managers and opinion makers;
•  Site-visit to historically important areas of the city, exploring secrets and peculiarities of the local communities, religion and culture.

Date: June 2020

What is included in the participation fee?

•  Preparatory course
•  Hotel stay
•  Breakfast
•  All meetings and activities listed in the itinerary
•  Certification of participation

What is not included in the participation fee?

•  Round-trip airfare to/from Istanbul
•  Lunches and dinners
•  Museum fees
•  Airport-hotel transfers and short city transfer

The goal of eastwest European Institute is to involve students, selected on merit, providing them with specialized training, finalized to a career in diplomacy, international affairs, advocacy and international business.

EWEI offers scholarship credit incentives to the most competitive participants of the Wip – Study Mission Istanbul program.

Scholarship credits will be awarded based on the following criteria:

•  Previous participation to an EWEI or Associazione Diplomatici course;
•  University grade point average of 27/30 or equivalent;
•  Interview on general knowledge of International relations;
•  English language at C1 level;
•  Single – income family.

Within 48 hours from the interview, candidates who pass this phase of the application process will receive:

•  confirmation of the success of their application
•  indication of the moneraty value of any scholarship credit awarded (from 5% to a maximum of 20%)
•  additional instructions to complete the enrollment process.

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