Welcome to Istanbul Bilgi University’s FlipEU Jean Monnet Module and BILGINormsEU Jean Monnet Chair Website.
The Jean Monnet Module entitled A ‘Flipped Course’ on EU is coordinated by Özge Onursal-Beşgül and Mehmet Ali Tuğtan. The FlipEU module is the first blended course on the EU at Istanbul Bilgi University. The module is delivered as a course under the General Education Curriculum with the course code and name GE 112 Introduction to European Union. The course utilises the flipped classroom approach. This innovative teaching design allows the students to learn in their own time and at their own pace. The instructors deploy an instructional strategy and resources that place a higher-order cognitive demand on the students since the ‘flipped’ course engages the students with more creative, evaluative and analytical exercises. This website contains information on the teaching content and events of the GE 112 Introduction to the European Union.
The Jean Monnet Chair on Diffusion of Norms and Turkey-EU Relations, coordinated by Özge Onursal Beşgül, aims to focus on how norms at the EU level are constructed, diffused, and contested at the national level in different policy areas. As part of the project, three new courses were launched in the Spring 2022 and Summer 2022 academic terms: IR 324 International Organisations and Norms, EUR 505 Selected Topics in EU-Turkey Relations, and GE 248 The EU in the World. Within the framework of the project, seminars, webinars, and a new podcast series will be organised. All the project materials, including the contents of the courses and their outputs, will be shared on this webpage. The project's goal, specifically addressing young people relatively new to European studies, is to ensure the emergence of different public perspectives on Turkey-EU relations.
