Miłosz J. Cordes

Tag: dis study abroad

  • 10th Tartu Conference Came to an End

    10th Tartu Conference Came to an End

    The 10th Tartu Conference on East European and Eurasian Studies at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies of University of Tartu came to an end. It brought together researchers, practitioners, and policymakers. I am grateful to have engaged with such rigorous, policy-relevant scholarship.

    💐 Many thanks for DIS – Study Abroad, especially to Helle Rytkønen and Neringa Bigailaitė Vendelbo, for providing this excellent opportunity. I met so many people whose experience I would love to share with another cohort of DIS students in the coming weeks and months. You can be sure that one way or another they will join our classrooms, online discussions, field trips and study tours. Thanks to them, my eyes have become more open than just a week ago.

    The conversation between researchers and institutions needs to continue — and deepen. Here are three takeaways for me:

    1️⃣ Academia + state institutions, working together. The research presented — on disinformation patterns, minority resilience, memory politics, and reflexive control — is exactly the kind of evidence base policymakers need. Bridging the gap between rigorous scholarship and government decision-making isn’t optional; it’s a strategic necessity.

    2️⃣ Resilience is built locally, not just decided centrally. From Estonia’s community houses to Ukraine’s wartime civic identity shifts, the conference highlighted how societal cohesion at the grassroots level is itself a security asset.

    3️⃣ Education as a long-term defence. Whether it’s media literacy among communities navigating “news repertoires,” or historical and civic education that builds resilience against revisionist narratives — investing in education today is what sustains the actions we take now. Hybrid threats are won or lost over years, not news cycles.

  • Meeting with Head of Mission of Greenland in Brussels

    Meeting with Head of Mission of Greenland in Brussels

    So much has been said about Greenland in the recent weeks in the U.S., Denmark and elsewhere in Europe that one feels the Greenlanders themselves might find it challenging to convey important messages about their country and its future.

    My European Game of Politics: Crisis and Survival course at DIS – Study Abroad had the honour and the pleasure of meeting with Inuuteq Holm Olsen, Head of Mission at the Greenland Mission to the EU. Together with my students and, we held an open talk about what happened in the history of Greenland and the Greenlanders and how taking full ownership of affairs in their country after centuries of colonial presence of Europeans needs to be a well-thought process that might but does not mean independence in the foreseeable future.

  • Visit to the Embasy of Poland to Denmark with DIS Students

    Visit to the Embasy of Poland to Denmark with DIS Students

    How do you prepare and run national presidency in the EU Council? How can a member state and its institutions adjust to dynamically changing circumstances and a growing number of challenges over just half a year? How can an ambitious and a large player like Poland pursue its interests and care of the EU as a whole at the same time? Together with my core course at DIS – Study Abroad and Neringa Bigailaitė Vendelbo we had the privilege and the pleasure of visiting Poland’s Embassy to Denmark. Head of Mission Ewa Dębska and her team gave us a convincing account of how it is to work in international environment, linking bilateral and multilateral diplomacy in times like these.


    My experiential learning-based European Game of Politics: Crisis and Survival course will soon transform into a classroom on wheels. We will go to Brussels to meet with EU professionals and long-term friends of DIS, such as Jon Kyst, Soren Liborius, Sidonie Wetzig, College of Europe and many more. We will talk about security, resilience, future of the transatlantic alliance, EU’s support for Ukraine and other topics vital for a billion people living on both sides of the Atlantic.