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Rebecca Abecassis, journalist and editor of RTP’s European affairs programmes, António Assis Teixeira, TVI’s European correspondent, and Carla Martins, member of the Board of ERC – Portuguese Regulatory Authority for the Media, discussed the role of journalism in covering European affairs at the School of Communication and Media Studies (ESCS-UPL). The debate, which also addressed […]

The project LIDERA – Reading Daily Information to Choose, Reflect and Act, promoted by the UNESCO Chair of Communication, Media and Information Literacy and Citizenship (ESCS-UPL/LIACOM), the ERC – Portuguese Regulatory Authority for the Media, and the School Libraries Network (RBE/EduQA), has been awarded funding under the 10th edition of the Polytechnic University of Lisbon‘s […]

The first session of U!READ, U!REKA‘s book club, took place on 29 October, bringing together seven participants from two of the European university alliance’s partner institutions: four representatives from Polytechnic University of Lisbon and three from Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, including academic staff, administrative staff and one student. For this session, participants were invited […]

On 22 October, Fernanda Bonacho, chairholder of the UNESCO Chair of Communication, Media and Information Literacy and Citizenship (ESCS-UPL/LIACOM), participated as a keynote speaker at the conference “Future-Ready Teachers for Future-Ready Learners”, held in Brussels. In her presentation, the researcher emphasised the urgency of recognising that media literacy is no longer merely an addition to […]

The U!REKA community is launching U!READ, the book club of our European university alliance, with a session dedicated to the values that guide our work: inclusion, co-creation and boldness. The first meeting will take place online on Thursday, October 29, at 5 p.m. (Lisbon time) – see also on U!REKA’s events page. For this moment, […]

The UNESCO Chair of Communication, Media and Information Literacy and Citizenship (ESCS-UPL/LIACOM) is taking part in the ORBICOM Annual Conference, a leading international gathering of UNESCO Chairs dedicated to communication. The event takes place from 26 to 30 October in Montreal, Canada. Under the theme “Media, Artificial Intelligence and Democracy: Communicational imaginaries in a fragmented […]