The teaching programme includes 40 hours of intensive training, divided into lectures, seminars, and practical activities such as labs and workshops. Lectures and seminars will be led by internationally renowned scholars who have extensively studied the interplay between society and the Internet—as well as experts from partner organizations. The labs aim to deepen the covered topics from a policy-oriented perspective, equipping participants with analytical and decision-making tools and methods. The teaching staff comprises scholars from the University of Salerno, along with external lecturers, researchers, and professionals from both Italy and abroad. The working language of the school is English
*This is a preliminary programme, slight variations may occur.
SWING Teaching Programme
24-28 February 2025
Day 1 | 24/02/2025 – INTERNET GOVERNANCE
09:00-10:00 Welcome and Introduction to SWING
10:00-11:00 Transnational governance ()
11:00-12:00 Fundamentals of computer networks (Aniello Castiglione, University of Salerno)
12:00-13:00 Internet Governance issues and actors (Mauro Santaniello, University of Salerno)
13:00-14:30 Lunch Break
14:30-16:30 Seminar #1: DNS governance (Elena Plexida, ICANN)
16:30-17:30 Lab #1: Group formation and issue picking (Sophie Hoogenboom, UNU-CRIS)
17:30-18:30 Lab #2: How to write a (digital) policy brief (Andrea Pettrachin, University of Padova)
Day 2 | 25/02/2025 – THE POLITICS OF THE INTERNET
09:00-10:00 Multistakeholder Governance (Julia Pohle, WZB, Berlin)
10:00-11:00 Digital Diplomacy (Yves Schemeil, Sciences Po Grenoble)
11:00-12:00 Digital Cooperation (Dennis Redeker, Bremen University)
12:00-13:00 Digital Constitutionalism (Edoardo Celeste, Dublin City University & Chiara Spiniello, University of Salerno)
13:00-14:30 Lunch Break
14:30-16:30 Seminar #2: IG and Human Rights (Marianne Franklin, University of Groningen & Claudia Padovani, University of Padua)
16:30-17:30 Lab #3: Working group on policy briefs (Sophie Hoogenboom, UNU-CRIS)
17:30-18:30 Lab #4: Working group on policy briefs (Jamal Shahin, Brussels School of Governance)
Day 3 | 26/02/2025 – GLOBAL DIGITAL GOVERNANCE
09:00-10:00 Digital Governance in Russia (Marielle Wijermars, Maastricht University)
10:00-11:00 Digital Governance in the Europe (Julia Pohle, WZB, Berlin)
11:00-12:00 Digital Governance in the Arab world (Serena Fraiese, Università di Salerno & Abdelali Madani, Agence de Développement du Digital)
12:00-13:00 Digital Governance in China (Riccardo Nanni, Fondazione Bruno Kessler & Xiaojuan Yang, Freie Universität Berlin)
13:00-14:30 Lunch Break
14:30-16:30 Seminar #3: Digital Cooperation (Nibal Idlebi, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia)
16:30-17:30 Lab #5: Working group on policy briefs (Riccardo Nanni, Fondazione Bruno Kessler – Sophie Hoogenboom, UNU-CRIS)
17:30-18:30 Lab #6: Working group on policy briefs (Brahim Ouamane, Agence de Développement du Digital – Jamal Shahin, Brussels School of Governance)
Day 4 | 27/02/2025 – DIGITAL SOVEREIGNTY
09:00-11:00 Seminar #4: Digital Sovereignty (Jamal Shahin, Brussels School of Governance)
11:00-12:00 Sovereignty and microprocessors (Mauro Santaniello & Armando Antonio Ferrara, University of Salerno)
12:00-13:00 Internet Sanctions (Niels ten Oever, University of Amsterdam)
13:00-14:30 Lunch Break
14:30-15:30 Governance of Artificial Intelligence (Virgilio D’Antonio and Nicola Palladino, University of Salerno)
15:30-16:30 Internet Fragmentation (Andrea Beccalli, ICANN)
16:30-17:30 Lab #7: Working group on policy briefs (Riccardo Nanni, Fondazione Bruno Kessler – Sophie Hoogenboom, UNU-CRIS)
17:30-18:30 Lab #8: Working group on policy briefs (Dennis Broeders, Leiden University, The Hague Program for Cyber Norms)
Day 5 | 28/02/2025 – CYBERSECURITY POLICY
09:00-11:00 Seminar #5: Cybersecurity policies and strategies (Dennis Broeders, Leiden University, The Hague Program for Cyber Norms)
11:00-12:00 Cybersecurity Cultures (Franesco Amoretti, University of Salerno)
12:00-13:00 Cyber-intelligence and cyber-warfare (Kavé Salamatian, Tallin University of Technology & Polytech Annecy-Chambéry)
13:00-14:30 Lunch Break
14:30-15:30 Cybersecurity capacity building in the EURO-Med (Carlos Fonseca, Ghent University)
15:30-16:30 Disinformation (Giuseppe Fenza, University of Salerno)
16:30-17:30 Lab #9: Working group on policy briefs (Sophie Hoogenboom, UNU-CRIS)
17:30-18:30 Lab #10: Working group on policy briefs (Jamal Shahin, Brussels School of Governance)