JEAN MONNET MODULE
EU Good Governance Promotion Inside and Beyond Its Borders
ALTINBAS UNIVERSITY
(2018-2021)
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About EUGOGOV
EU Good Governance Promotion Inside and Beyond Its Borders -EUGOGOV is co-funded by the European Union as a Jean Monnet module for the following three years starting in 2018. Out of the 1227 applications, 122 have been selected for funding for this action in 2018. This module will be available both in the undergraduate and post-graduate curricula of the Department of Political Science. It brings together scholars from different universities and aims to expand and disseminate knowledge on theories, mechanisms, and outcomes of EU’s policies to promote good governance inside and beyond its borders. Promoting good governance in public and private realms and in various policy sectors has become a way for the EU to fight against corruption in wider Europe’ and around the globe.
The notion of ‘good governance’ in the EU context first became prominent through the release of the Commission’s White Paper in 2001 on ‘European Governance’ in which it lists several principles underpinning ‘good governance’, such as openness and transparency, accountability, participation and effectiveness. The European integration managed to create a strong EU anti-corruption regime that encompasses law instruments, treaty provisions, and directives.
This module with its up-to-date courses and seminars will address the theoretical and empirical question of how the EU has developed an anti-corruption approach in its policy-making to promote good governance principles inside and beyond its borders and enable students of political science to catch up with new research areas and recent literature in the European studies. Besides teaching, designed for undergraduate and graduate students at Altınbaş University, the module will bring together graduate students, faculty members and policy-makers in various workshops and facilitate an exposure to new ideas, interdisciplinary methodologies, and research networks. Last but not least roundtable debates will be organized throughout the module geared towards specialized NGOs, public bodies, think-tanks and academics as well as the general public.
Altınbaş University (AU), a non-profit private university, is committed to excellence in research and teaching in Turkey. With its dynamic, innovative and research-oriented academic staff, AU aims to become one of the most comprehensive and prestigious educational institutions of Turkey. Due to tremendous support from Mehmet Altınbaş Education and Culture Foundation and Altınbaş Holding, which is one of the most powerful economic forces of Turkey, the university offers its students this very dynamism and innovativeness; delivering free research and development to national and international scientific community. The university aims to direct its research efforts primarily towards applied and strategic research with the objectives of advancing knowledge, supporting teaching and contributing to the progress of the community
Since its foundation in 2008, the university has begun to admit students in 2011 and now continues to make his mark day by day in the scientific community through eight schools, three graduate schools, two vocational schools, three research centres and 23 undergraduate programs, 19 associate’s degree programs, six graduate programs and two doctorate programs. Through international exchange programs, the university offers its students the chance to receive part of their education abroad and accepts exchange students from abroad, mainly from North African, Middle Eastern, European and Central Asian countries
EUGOGOV module offers one undergraduate course in the curricula of the Department of Political Science under the Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences but is available as an elective course to other departments including primarily the Department of International Relations, Economics and Sociology. The Department of Political Science offers a Master’s and PhD programme in collaboration with the Department of International Relations (IR). EUGOGOV intensive seminar is designed for the students of these two programmes and is open to other postgraduate programmes in history and law at AU and to related programmes at other universities especially in Istanbul. Neatly integrated into existing teachinc content, EUGOGOV foster students’ engagement in research on EU and governance.