PROTAGORAS is the think tank for researchers and professionals in political and public communication coordinated by IHECS.

PROTAGORAS aims to create bridges between academic research and a professional field of public and political communicators. The laboratory is part of a valuation approach that also takes into account the global evolution of communication practices and their impact in the media.

OBJECTIVES

Develop a network of actors and multiply exchanges between researchers and professionals (communicants, spin doctors, journalists, political advisors, spokespersons or press officers) within political and public organizations (at local, regional, national and European).
Establish a “research center” (inter-university) open to experts as well as young researchers with the organization of international symposia and thematic seminars, leading to recurrent publications (“Cahiers Protagoras”).
Develop one-time or longer-term partnerships with public and private organizations.
Promote teaching in connection with initial training (Bachelor and Master) or via IHECS Academy, the continuing education center of the Institute of Higher Studies of Social Communications.

THE MASTERCLASSES

One evening per month, Protagoras organises Keynote speeches + Q/A by researchers or top-level EU officials or professionals. The students of the Executive Master EPAC will follow 3 of them during the year.

You want to know more about Protagoras: https://www.protagoras.be/