Public Diplomacy Lab
The Public Diplomacy Lab was established in 2020. It continues and supports research on public diplomacy (conducted at the Institute of International Studies for twenty years) by acquiring external funds and creating a network of researchers dealing with this subject. PDL is the first such center in Poland to study public diplomacy, understood as a foreign policy tool, but at the same time as external political communication of governments and non-state actors. The research conducted in the Lab is interdisciplinary, as it combines the theory of international relations with studies on media and communication.
The latest project carried out in the Lab is a grant from the National Science Center Opus 12, entitled "Cultural Diplomacy: Conceptualization of Years and Seasons of Culture as Cultural Events During an International Conflict." The grant owner is prof. dr hab. Beata Ociepka.
The Chair of the Lab is prof. dr hab. Beata Ociepka.