InfoClima: UNESCO Chair researcher leads workshops on climate disinformation
ZERO – Associação Sistema Terrestre Sustentável (Sustainable Earth System Association, free translation), the organization promoting the project InfoClima – Youth in Action Against Climate Disinformation, has established a partnership with the School of Communication and Media Studies (ESCS-IPL) to organize a series of workshops in Lisbon aimed at students from various communication fields.
Vera Moutinho, researcher at the UNESCO Chair of Communication, Media and Information Literacy and Citizenship and at LIACOM (ESCS-IPL), will lead these in-person sessions, which involve around 40 students from Strategic Communication in Public Relations, Climate Journalism, and Audiovisual and Multimedia Project and Portfolio programs.
Throughout the workshops, students will be challenged to develop a communication campaign addressing climate disinformation through the creation of videos and other creative content.
The first workshop will take place on March 4, the second is scheduled for March 11, and the third session has not yet been scheduled.
The main objective of the InfoClima project is to empower university students to understand the scientific foundations of climate change and environmental crises, as well as to identify the mechanisms of manipulation and disinformation that affect public debate on climate issues.
The goal is to equip participants with tools that enable them to recognize, question, and counter misleading narratives, making them more informed, critical, and active agents in tackling environmental disinformation.
This initiative comes at a time marked by the growing spread of disinformation, particularly regarding the climate crisis.
The project has a national scope and will also be carried out in the cities of Porto and Faro.
The InfoClima – Youth in Action Against Climate Disinformation project is funded by European funds under the Catalyst of Change program of the Netherlands Helsinki Committee.
