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The Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence "Mihai Drăgănescu" has been established in 1994 to be a competence centre, active disseminator of knowledge. It has a core of permanent staff (22 researchers, 3 of them Members of the Romanian Academy; 5 associated members from abroad) and a variable number of temporary (contract-based) collaborators, mainly MSc. or PhD. students.

The Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence "Mihai Drăgănescu" is member of the European Network of Excellence in Human Language Technologies.

Each year, since its foundation, it was rated highest (“Excellency institution”) within the Romanian Academy yearly evaluation procedure. In 2001 it won the competition for Centres of Excellency (in Information Science and Technology) organized by the Ministry of Education and Science. In 2002 it was rated as the best research institute of the Romanian Academy (from 60 institutes and centres). In 2008 ICIA was acreditated as a research institution, as a component unit of the Research System of National Interest in conformity with HG no. 551/2007.

The main research projects of the Institute are in the areas of natural language processing, machine learning and knowledge acquisition, computer-aided instruction and structural-phenomenological modelling. The activities of the Institute also include know-how dissemination, education in artificial intelligence, and organisation of national and international conferences, summer schools, and seminars.

The Institute has several cooperation relations with Universities, research institutions and industrial partners from more than 20 countries from Europe and USA.

Established on 1946, Ankara University, provides education through associate (two-year) degree programs, undergraduate (bachelor degree) programs through its 14 faculties, 3 vocational schools, 6 colleges and a state conservatory. Graduate level education and research is provided by its 12 graduate schools. AU has 2647 associate degree and 28,775 undergraduate level students. Teaching and research staff is composed of 1143 professors, 323 associate professors, and 299 assistant professors. The total number of auxiliary academic staff is 1625, which consists of 120 instructors, 282 lecturers, 178 specialists, and 1045 research assistants. Ankara University also employs 4016 administrative staff. AU gives a very high priority to cooperation between university and industry, particularly in scientific research. It established a Technology Development Area and to incorporate the present Technology Development Center into this area in order to accelerate national production with scientific and technological innovations and developments.

Faculty of Media is one of the leading communication faculties in Turkey.which was founded on 1965. It has three BA programs as journalism, radio television and cinema and public relations. It has also three MA and three Ph.D programs that has hundereds of students attend. Ankara University Faculty of Media has strong academic infrastructure and also strong and long termed relations to media sector and industry in Turkey. There are many national and several  EU projects that are still continued by the academic members of faculty. Faculty of Media at AU has coordinated and conducted many national and international trainings for journalists up today. We'are very keen on to conduct a project on "media peace and conflict journalism issues"