seminars organized by the Permanent Representation and Italian universities, with the participation of the Sant'Anna School, to understand how the OSCE works and to strengthen cooperation between diplomacy and the Italian university system
The Permanent Representation of Italy to the OSCE, in collaboration with Universities, including Sant'Anna School, and Italian research institutes participating in the “OSCE National Table”, organized a series of extra-curricular seminars entitled “The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) as a model for multilateral regional diplomacy of the 21st century”
The Permanent Representation of Italy to the OSCE, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, in collaboration with universities, including the Sant'Anna School, and Italian research institutes participating in the “OSCE National Table”, has organized a series of extra-curricular seminars entitled “The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) as a model for multilateral regional diplomacy of the 21st century”. The initiative, held from March to May 2022 in a virtual format, was inaugurated by the Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Benedetto della Vedova, and sees the participation of about 60 university students from nine Italian universities, including the Sant'Anna School. The Italian universities involved are: Roma Tre, Pavia, Bocconi Milan, Cà Foscari Venice, LUISS "Guido Carli", Bologna, Trento, University of Trieste and, indeed, the Sant'Anna School.
The cycle of seminars, in English, is divided into 20 hours of training, divided into lectures on the functioning of the OSCE and workshops and interactive sessions on specific issues related to the activity of the Organization (“case studies”). The aim of the initiative is to promote the knowledge and the study of the role and the activities of the Organization based in Vienna and to strengthen the cooperation between diplomacy and the Italian university system.
All speeches will be held by diplomatic officials of the Permanent Representation and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Italian officials in service at the OSCE and university professors and experts of the Organization. From the Sant'Anna School, Serena Giusti, International Relations, is the contact point of the course while Andrea de Guttry, Full Professor of International Law, has been invited to give a lecture with simulation on Tuesday, March 22, 2022 on the themes of election observation.
