LE G IS : Intensive Programme on Legal Aspects of Information Society

1. LEGIS:Intensive Programme on Legal Aspects of Information Society Selahattin Kuru Işık University LEFIS General Assembly Meeting, Wroclaw, September 17-18, 2007

2. identity • Programme: Erasmus LLP (Lifelong Learning Programme) • Type of activity: IP (Intensive Programme) • Duration: 3 years • Supporting national agency: Turkey LEFIS General Assembly Meeting, Wroclaw, September 17-18, 2007

3. partners • Işık University, Turkey (Coordinator) • University of Zaragoza, Spain, • University of Warwick, UK, • Vienna University, Austria, • Queen’s University of Belfast, UK, • Polytechnic Institute of Beja, Portugal, • Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, • University of Wrocklaw, Poland, • Mykolas Romieris University, Lithuania, • Orebro University, Sweden LEFIS General Assembly Meeting, Wroclaw, September 17-18, 2007

4. technical programme: topics • Globalisation and engineering ethics • Data protection / e-signature • Regulation of e-government • Telecommunications law • E-commerce • Globalisation and technologies • Globalisation / open source • IPR • Cybercrime / e-democracy • Project LEFIS General Assembly Meeting, Wroclaw, September 17-18, 2007

5. technical programme: lecturers • Fernando Galindo • Ioannis Iglezakis • Mathias Klang • Ewa Galewska • Manuel Masseno • Erich Schweighofer • Abdul Paliwala • Philip Leith • Rimantas Petrauskas • Selahattin Kuru LEFIS General Assembly Meeting, Wroclaw, September 17-18, 2007

6. students • Total of 36 students • 3 from Spain • 3 from Portugal • 5 from UK • 6 from Austria • 7 from Greece • 3 from Sweden • 3 from Poland • 3 from Lithuania • 3 from Turkey LEFIS General Assembly Meeting, Wroclaw, September 17-18, 2007

7. format • lecture + workshop + project • every day except for the last: • lecture in the morning • workshop in early afternoon • workshop presentation in late afternoon • project: throughout the intensive programme LEFIS General Assembly Meeting, Wroclaw, September 17-18, 2007

8. workshops • workshop on a different topic every day • workshop groups of 3-4 students • intercultural dimension: no more than one student from one country in a group • New groups for each workshop • each student was required to participate in a total of 7 workshops out of a total of 9 • each group had 2 hours for group discussion and work to prepare a presentation (on the same day, in the afternoon) • each group presented its workshop result in a 10-minute presentation in the plenary in the afternoon LEFIS General Assembly Meeting, Wroclaw, September 17-18, 2007

9. project • Groups of 3-4 students for a project topic • Group formation rule is the same as for workshops, i.e. no more than one from one country • Project topics are assigned early in the first week • Deliverables were project report (10-30 pages long), presentation slides, and presentation itself • 2 submissions of the report: draft report at the beginning of the second week, and final report one day to the last day • in the presentations each group had 5 minutes per member and 5 minutes for questions and discussion • presentations done the last day LEFIS General Assembly Meeting, Wroclaw, September 17-18, 2007

10. evaluation • Each workshop is marked by the lecturer of the topic of the day on a group basis on a scale of 0 to 4 • The project is evaluated by one lecturer present the last day (Leith, Petrauskas or Kuru), on a group basis for the report and on an individual basis for individual presentations • Students evaluated their peers (peer evaluation) for the project similarly with lecturers, i.e. project on a group basis and presentations on an individual basis LEFIS General Assembly Meeting, Wroclaw, September 17-18, 2007

11. ECTS credits • Students will earn 10 ECTS credits, which is offered as two courses from the current course catalogue of Işık University. • The course are ‘CSE587 Special Topics in Computer Engineering: Legal Aspects of Information Society’, and ‘CSE588 Special Topics in Computer Engineering: Project on Legal Aspects of Information Society’ • Grade reports and transcripts are to be issued by the registrar’s office of Işık University LEFIS General Assembly Meeting, Wroclaw, September 17-18, 2007

12. Grading • The grade to be obtained from the workshops is for the course CSE587 Special Topics in Computer Engineering: Legal Aspects of Information Society • The grade to be obtained from project is for the course CSE588 Special Topics in Computer Engineering: Project on Legal Aspects of Information Society • Letter grades used at Işık University for graduate course: • AA (4 out of 4) • BA (3.5 out of 4) • BB (3 out of 4) • CB (2.5 out of 4) • CC (2 out of 4) • F (fail, 0 out of 4) LEFIS General Assembly Meeting, Wroclaw, September 17-18, 2007

13. Social programme • Visit to Istanbul old city • Boat tour on the Bosphorus • Visit to Sile • Visit to Ortakoy (Istanbul) • Parties on campus LEFIS General Assembly Meeting, Wroclaw, September 17-18, 2007

14. Dissemination • LEGIS poster (A4 and A3) distributed to partners • 3 LEGIS newspapers distributed to students • LEGIS web site • News release LEFIS General Assembly Meeting, Wroclaw, September 17-18, 2007

15. Evaluation of IP by students • An extensive questionnaire was used to collect input from students for improving LEGIS in the coming years • Early results show that the students were very satisfied with the intensive programme both in technical sense and socially • Nevertheless students identified several points for improvement LEFIS General Assembly Meeting, Wroclaw, September 17-18, 2007