Fernanda Bonacho, holder of the UNESCO Chair of Communication, Media and Information Literacy and Citizenship (ESCS), has been elected to the MIL Alliance Global Board, the main governing body of UNESCO’s Global Alliance for Media and Information Literacy (MIL). The announcement was made on January 18. Fernanda Bonacho, who is also professor at ESCS-IPL and researcher at LIACOM, becomes one of […]
The UNESCO Chair in Communication, Media and Information Literacy and Citizenship held a workshop on online well-being with 50 young people aged between 15 and 18, on 13 December, in Beja. The session, entitled “Media literacy: Seeing beyond the screen” (“Literacia mediática: Ver para além do ecrã”, in the original), was part of another edition of the CIS Digital Camp 2025, an initiative of […]
On December 18th, the ebook “Towards a Cultural Program at ESELx: Contributions from the Department of Arts and Design,” (“Para um Programa Cultural da ESELx: Contributos do Departamento de Artes e Design”, in the original) coordinated by Miguel Falcão, professor at the Lisbon School of Education (ESELx-IPL), was presented. The publication, by professors of visual arts, technology, design, music, […]
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, […]
