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The ebook that recalls the official launch ceremony of the UNESCO Chair in Communication, Media and Information Literacy and Citizenship, at the School of Communication and Media Studies of the Polytechnic University of Lisbon (ESCS-IPL), is now available (in Portuguese) in the IPL repository and on the Chair’s website.  The book, entitled Communication, media literacy and citizenship: Launch of the UNESCO Chair (Comunicação, literacia mediática e cidadania: Lançamento da Cátedra UNESCO, in the original), seeks, on the one hand, […]

The Faculty of Arts of the University of Coimbra (FLUC) hosted, in November 27 and 28, the VII Congress on Literacy, Media and Citizenship, under the theme Behavior, Narratives and Human Rights, organized by GILM (Informal Group on Media Literacy) and supported by the UNESCO Chair in Communication, Media and Information Literacy and Citizenship, of the School of Communication and Media […]

The documentary “The Reader” (“A Leitora”, in the original), directed by Joana Souza, was screened for the first time on November 6th at the Carlos Paredes Auditorium in Benfica.  Around 110 people – both children and adults – attended this 30-minute film, which tells the story of how Maria became a reader and later a teacher.   In the documentary, […]

Between September 25 and October 3, the Citizenship Week “Do I Know?” (“Será que Sei?”) — organized by the team of the UNESCO Chair on Communication, Media and Information Literacy and Citizenship (ESCS-IPL) — brought together more than 300 participants, most of them students from the School of Communication and Media Studies (ESCS). The challenge […]

Between September 25 and October 3, Citizenship Week “Será que Sei?” (Do I Know?) will take place in various locations at IPL Benfica Campus. This is a civic and political literacy initiative, open to the public, with several activities that invite reflection on our condition as citizens and to deepen knowledge about the local elections, […]

The holder of the UNESCO Chair in Communication, Media and Information Literacy, and Citizenship (ESCS-IPL), Fernanda Bonacho, participated on the 8th of September in the commemorative session for International Literacy Day organised by the Lisbon Geographical Society (SGL) in partnership with the Portuguese National Commission for UNESCO and the Directorate-General for Maritime Policy.  With a […]