Regional Network of Centers of Advanced Studies in the Western Balkan (RECAS) Project is: International

Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory is leading a project on behalf of the Regional Network of Centers for Advanced Studies in Southeast Europe (RECAS). RECAS is the flagship initiative of the Rectors Forum of Southeast Europe and Western Balkans, which gathers 30 universities that declare strong commitment to operate the Forum as a platform that develops concepts, co-ordinates measures and jointly advocates for European and regional collaboration, and European integration in the area of science, research and education.

Corpus-based Datathons to Support Collaborative, Studentdriven Debates on the Key European Values of Sustainability and Democracy (DEBATING DEMOCRACY)

DEBATING DEMOCRACY is committed to developing new approaches to learning and teaching through the utilization of datathlons. These datathlons involve the analysis of natural speech samples (corpus) related to sustainable development and democracy, facilitated by software tools.