The Room Where It Happens Project

The Room Where It Happens”, a 6-month project, funded and supported by the US Embassy and Alumni TIES, aiming to address this emerging and scaling issue and challenge, related to the rising role of private rooms/groups in messaging apps in nurturing and empowering the voices of their participants to share, embrace and advocate all kinds of misinformation, through the collaboration of students, alumni, experts, trainers and influencers from both India and Greece. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦 👥 The Room Where It Happens Project is an innovative and impact-making initiative by four U.S. Department of State Exchange Alumni Betty Tsakarestou (Greece) project leader, Lida Tsene (Greece) Mausumi Bhattacharyya (India) Ankuran Dutta (India), all university professors in Communications, Media, Journalism, Digital innovation and Storytelling. The Room Where It Happens Project is funded through an Alumni TIES small grant for the U.S. Department of State 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬 🙌 We embark together with 100 participating Greek and Indian Media and Communications university students, from Communication Media and Culture Dept. Panteion University Athens, School of Journalism and Mass Communications, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Visva Bharati University West Bengal, Gauhati University Asam, St. Xavier's University, Kolkata collaborating in 𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬-𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬, 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐢𝐱𝐞𝐝 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩𝐬, and with the support of expert speakers and workshop leaders from Greece, India, and the USA, in a series of co-creation-prototyping- testing, design sprints, simulations and digital newsroom content production. 𝐉𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐔𝐬! 🔊 We invite you to join and follow The Room Where It Happens Project experimental and prototyping journey. We shall share publicly our outcomes, innovations, challenges and learnings, on the go, through our official social media channels and multi-media blog posts.